Comments for Vivid Method for Public Speaking http://vividmethod.com Speak with certainty. Persuade with clarity. Sun, 22 Apr 2012 03:36:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Comment on Crazy over public speaking gestures for 70 years by Cam Barber http://vividmethod.com/crazy-over-gestures-for-70-years/#comment-137 Cam Barber Sun, 22 Apr 2012 03:36:58 +0000 http://cambarber.com/?p=1748#comment-137 Thanks for your thoughts Budi. Everybody is different, so perhaps I should have said "Clear visual explanations (gestures) *USUALLY* flow naturally from clarity about what you are saying, when you are comfortable on stage". That has been my experience with around 10,000 coaching/training participants. Certainly many people benefit from exercises to move their body and add gestures to emphasize their points. But then you have another challenge: How do you teach the same gesture to a loud extrovert-style speaker and a quiet introvert-style speaker? Do we try to make everybody the same? How boring for the audience. How stifling for the speaker's development. Surely our goal as a teacher/coach is to help them to develop their own natural style. This video implies a stiff, fixed style of gestures is right for everyone, to every audience. It's not. Speakers are different. Audiences are different. Eras are different. Corporate cultures are different. How do you build a connection with an audience if you look and act like every other speaker? Of course, there are many ways to be a great speaker, and my perspective is just one! Thanks again for the debate. Thanks for your thoughts Budi. Everybody is different, so perhaps I should have said “Clear visual explanations (gestures) *USUALLY* flow naturally from clarity about what you are saying, when you are comfortable on stage”. That has been my experience with around 10,000 coaching/training participants.

Certainly many people benefit from exercises to move their body and add gestures to emphasize their points. But then you have another challenge: How do you teach the same gesture to a loud extrovert-style speaker and a quiet introvert-style speaker? Do we try to make everybody the same? How boring for the audience. How stifling for the speaker’s development.

Surely our goal as a teacher/coach is to help them to develop their own natural style. This video implies a stiff, fixed style of gestures is right for everyone, to every audience. It’s not. Speakers are different. Audiences are different. Eras are different. Corporate cultures are different. How do you build a connection with an audience if you look and act like every other speaker?

Of course, there are many ways to be a great speaker, and my perspective is just one! Thanks again for the debate.

]]> Comment on Crazy over public speaking gestures for 70 years by budi http://vividmethod.com/crazy-over-gestures-for-70-years/#comment-136 budi Sun, 22 Apr 2012 01:58:28 +0000 http://cambarber.com/?p=1748#comment-136 Clear visual explanations (gestures) flow from clarity about what you are saying. Don’t teach people gestures, teach clear preparation and clear thinking skills so they can speak naturally. --> 100% I dissagree to this statement. The clarity about what you are saying does not necessarily lead you to do visual explanations clearly. They are very different! Not every natural gestures are effective, ellegant and polite gestures. So we need to know and train our effective gestures. Because we speak in public!! Clear visual explanations (gestures) flow from clarity about what you are saying. Don’t teach people gestures, teach clear preparation and clear thinking skills so they can speak naturally. –> 100% I dissagree to this statement. The clarity about what you are saying does not necessarily lead you to do visual explanations clearly. They are very different! Not every natural gestures are effective, ellegant and polite gestures. So we need to know and train our effective gestures. Because we speak in public!!

]]> Comment on 4 ways to start a speech strongly by Kath http://vividmethod.com/4-ways-to-start-a-speech-strongly/#comment-122 Kath Wed, 29 Feb 2012 21:52:08 +0000 http://vividmethod.com/?p=2550#comment-122 Great info, thanks for sharing Cam :) Great info, thanks for sharing Cam :)

]]> Comment on Understand the Stress Response: Skate park vs public speaking by Kalman http://vividmethod.com/the-skate-park-and-the-adrenaline-response/#comment-3 Kalman Thu, 21 Apr 2011 13:06:28 +0000 http://cambarber.com/?p=363#comment-3 I think I will leave the "contact" sports to you. Thanks for the tips. It is uncommon to get advice as good as yours. I think I will leave the “contact” sports to you. Thanks for the tips. It is uncommon to get advice as good as yours.

]]> Comment on Clarity: How to get to the next level by Pierre Nunns http://vividmethod.com/go-to-the-next-level-of-clarity/#comment-4 Pierre Nunns Thu, 24 Mar 2011 06:27:27 +0000 http://cambarber.com/?p=1077#comment-4 I like the simplicity of this message I like the simplicity of this message

]]> Comment on Understand the Stress Response: Skate park vs public speaking by April Henkel http://vividmethod.com/the-skate-park-and-the-adrenaline-response/#comment-2 April Henkel Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:59:45 +0000 http://cambarber.com/?p=363#comment-2 What did Sally say? Did she also have the same adrenaline reaction? =) What did Sally say? Did she also have the same adrenaline reaction? =)

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