Berkun\u2019s advice for public speakers revolves around good communication.\u00a0 <\/span>As leaders, if our ideas don\u2019t settle into others\u2019 minds or if unable to communicate the passions we care about, we are hobbled in our ability to lead effectively.\u00a0 <\/span>Stories are crucial in public speaking and communication.\u00a0 <\/span>The difficulties of finding proper stories are worth the effort, if relevance to the audience is addressed.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I have used that story over and over.\u00a0 <\/span>The story communicates even when I speak through a translator. I am amazed with each opportunity I have to share it.\u00a0 <\/span>I believe it\u2019s because of the \u201ctension and release\u201d that Berkun speaks of.<\/span><\/p>\n Many other tips are given; arrive early, be enthusiastic, and end early.\u00a0 <\/span>He also reminds us to \u201ctell them what you\u2019re going to tell them, tell them, then, tell them what you told them!\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>But nothing is better than a good story.\u00a0 <\/span>By the way, did you hear about the three men who walked into a bar\u2026.?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Imagining Naked People Doesn’t Work! Normal 0 false false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE \/* Style Definitions *\/ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:”Table Normal”; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:””; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:”Calibri”,”sans-serif”; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} Finishing Confessions of a Public Speaker by Scott Berkun left me feeling justified.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[304,315,2,35,312,316],"class_list":["post-800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-berkun","tag-burken","tag-dminlgp","tag-leadership","tag-speaking","tag-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_bE7Mw-gkKG4\/TTTjWGs24SI\/AAAAAAAAFYk\/YACV8HX-pH0\/s1600\/public-speaking.jpeg\"](\"%5CUsers%5Cpsmart%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_image002.jpg\")
I discovered this to be true one weekend while in Latin America.\u00a0 <\/span>I had spoken on a common topic, similar to many other times.\u00a0 <\/span>I had used many of the \u201ctricks\u201d that Berkun speaks of.\u00a0 <\/span>I rearranged the chairs to leave a smaller center aisle; I had mingled and found connections in the audience and had included audience participation \u2013 but the talk seemed to fall flat.\u00a0 <\/span>As I was about to conclude, I remembered a short story someone had told me that seemed so true of relationships in Latin America.\u00a0 <\/span>I shared the story and linked my main point to it in the conclusion.\u00a0 <\/span>People clapped, smiled and cheered (yes, actually cheered) as the antagonist in the story lost and the underdog came out on top.\u00a0 <\/span>I had succeeded in touching on a nerve. I had communicated.<\/span><\/p>\n