Communications Insight For More Inspiring Leaders What Are Your Potential Objectives as a Communicator?

What Are Your Potential Objectives as a Communicator?

 23rd Jun 2023
 
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What are Your potential personal objectives as a communicator?

To secure funding for your proposal
To be perceived as credible
To raise brand profile of yourself or your organisation
To simply “not screw it up”
To remember to cover all that you planned
And more…

Are NOT the same as your audience’s objectives…

To gain fresh insight into a topic of interest
To feel reassured, understood and/or inspired
To gain practical advice making a real difference to how they go about their lives
To gain renewed sense of purpose
To be alerted to an issue/problem of which they were not previously aware
And more…

As the speaker, focus on the latter FIRST.

You’re much more likely to achieve the former as a result!

Sounds obvious, I know.

But common sense is not the same as common practice.

#communication #leadership #publicspeaking

 I was recently promoted into a role where public speaking and inspiring people has become more central to my ability to be effective. I was amazed by how effective just one session was. I heard indirectly that my presentation had been particularly inspirational - one person even contacted the Director of my organisation to say how impressed he had been. Without any exaggeration, I give all this credit to Simon.

 

Esther Stevenson | Former Head of Africa, Christian Aid

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