Be an Authentic Communicator
ABOVE: Neuland walls in action at an event held in a downtown Pittsburgh loft.
From an article in the December eNewsletter from Neuland North America, makers of portable walls for facilitators and educators:
Most of us dread speaking in public because we think we have to be someone we're not. When we operate from our authentic selves we discover connections to our audience and ourselves, and we express ourselves effortlessly. When you can agree to each of the following 10 questions, then public speaking will become one of your greatest joys.
- Does this feel good?
- Is your audience feeling good?
- Am I rediscovering myself as I speak?
- Are my words coming through as if they were from another source?
- Is my speech almost poetic or prose-like?
- Is my voice peaceful, direct, harmonic, and clear?
- Do new creative ideas of the group mind arise from nowhere?
- Are most of the participants onboard?
- Are the silences powerful and synchronistic?
- Do I feel my energy expanding beyond previous boundaries?
Click here to see the detailed article by Steve Davis, a former electrical engineer turned trainer, facilitator, business and life coach, and infopreneur*.
Davis coaches small business owners, people in transition, leaders, andcultural creatives over the phone and Internet. Subscribe to his freeweekly ezine for group leaders at www.MasterFacilitatorJournal.com and check out his virtual university, packed with information for group leaders and participants at www.FacilitatorU.com.
*An Infopreneur is a business term that describes a person who sells business know-how and make it their primary business.
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