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I eventually get around to doing things. I have two speeds. If you don’t like the speed I’m currently using, you sure won’t like the other one.  Thanks to the internet, I don’t bother with watching TV shows when they air. Instead, I wait a day or two and stream them to my phone or computer.

 

For example, I had no intentions of watching the royal wedding live. Glad they got married, but I found other things to keep me occupied that early in the morning. By Sunday, social media was flooded with all the happenings of what went on. A friend of mine shared the video at the end of this Blog post. It is of Bishop Michael Curry.  Folks are buzzing about how powerful his message was. Some will say that he preaches with an anointment. Others will say that his message of love is needed not just for the couple, but for the world as a whole. I know the real reason why people are so into his 13 mins of speaking.

 

Richard Greene’s Ted Talk “7 secrets of the greatest speakers in history” mentions a fact that can be found in research on public speaking. Words communicate about 7% of the impact of a message. Voice Tone is 38%. Body Language is 55%. Bishop Curry had a simple message (Love is the way). HOW he gave that message is the real reason people are hooked on it. When you watch the video, you will hear his voice increase and decrease at various points. The rate that he is speaking slows down to be heard and speeds up to get attention. And then there is his movement around the podium. He moved all around with a passion that could not be contained. Kids at Christmas probably don’t move that Much. Yet, Bishop Curry is not like some speakers who just make you dizzy. He moved with purpose. It magnified the delivery of his message. His passion can be heard and seen. In short, he did 93% of what a great speaker needed to do in order to get a message across.

 

What does this mean for you the storyteller? The presenter? The person trying to communicate some important message? Make people feel what you have to say. Be sure to work on the delivery of your message just as much as you work on the message itself. That’s the nuts and bolts of public speaking.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhV0PL49d3Y

Published by Nick Baskerville

After years of being an instructor in the military and the and the fire service, I realized I needed to improve my delivery. My students needed me to improve delivery. But how do I improve my delivery? Simple. I finally took a member of Toastmasters up on the invitation to come to a meeting. It wasn't long until I joined. Along the way of improving my skills at delivering a message, I came to understand that of all the ways to get a point across, telling stories is the best way to get it done. Around this time, another friend from Toastmasters told me about The Moth monthly story telling shows. What better way to test out my theories on storytelling. It's in my travels there to the shows that I found more and more shows, and classes, and events centered around storytelling. Despite how many people know about the storytelling world, not many people know about the storytelling world. So now, I'm out to tell the world about storytelling.

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