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Vol 74 – February 2008

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Publisher: Anne Warfield
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Personal Note From Anne:

Greetings

If your message is never heard, did the communication ever happen? It is kind of like the saying, if a tree falls in the woods but no one is around did it make a sound?

Good communication needs to connect you and the audience. Today's situation focuses on making sure your message is heard. As you read through it you will start to understand why two people can say the same thing at a meeting and one is heard while one is completely glossed over.

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Outcome Focus™ Solution

handHow to Make Sure Your Audience Understands and Remembers Your Message

Use as a training tool: Present the situation below to the group and have them brainstorm how they would best handle the situation. Then share the Outcome Focus™ answer and see how it relates or differs from solutions the group found.

Situation:

Anne, I present frequently to large audiences about creativity in the workplace. Sometimes after I finish a presentation, my audience looks glazed over. You know, the “deer in headlights” look. How can I be sure that they've understood my message and can replicate the information to their superiors?

Outcome Desired:

You want your audience to not only understand your information but be able to repeat it in a way that will foster interest in creativity.

Other Person's Perspective:

Your audience wants to be able to understand how to implement your ideas in their workplaces in an easy to follow format. Your audience wants to be more creative.

Best Handled:

Many speakers leave a presentation never knowing if their message was heard or not. There are a couple of ways you can ensure that your message is heard and understood.

If you are doing a short thirty-minute to one-hour presentation, you want to make sure you have about three key messages for your audiences to bring from their head to their heart. So this means you need to keep it brief, to the point, have great examples that cement your point, and your messages need to tie together well. These messages will be repeated often throughout your presentation. This will ensure that your message sinks in.

If you are doing a longer training, simply ask the audience to recap the three to five things they will take action on. Have them share this with another person and then again in a group of four. Pull the group together to share the information with you in the front of the room. This will ensure that the audience has captured your message.

If you find that your audience has missed your point when you ask them to recap what they will do, then you know you have to simplify your message. Sometimes the greatest curse as a presenter is the knowledge you have of your subject. It causes you to expect the audience to keep up with your thoughts when they may be miles behind and hearing a completely different tune than you.

 
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Anne's Outcome Insights:

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Outcome Focus™ Guest Column
Lighting your way with new perspectives!

Body Language

By Mark Victor Hansen, author of Chicken Soup for the Soul

Stand tall. Use your body to project confidence. When your head is down and your chest is collapsed, you are not depicting confidence. When you're looking depressed and you're acting nervously shy, you do not look confident.

Lift your chin up, have good posture, breathe deeply, make eye contact, and give people a firm handshake. This will actually make you feel more confident. You can do this anytime and anywhere.

Portraying confidence in your physical appearance will, without question, help you feel more confident. Confidence is an emotion. Emotions are generated in the body. So that is where you must start.

Confidence starts with confident use of the body. This idea applies when you are talking on the telephone, as well. We recommend that you do not sit at the telephone, whether or not you have a headset. Stand up and walk around a bit.

You need to act confidently in order to think confidently. Walk confidently and be confident. When you are starting a project, imagine yourself as the master of that activity or topic. Imbue yourself with that person's confidence until you've got it as your own. Physically reflect confidence. As you act out the physical characteristics of confidence, that same confidence will be projected in your voice. It will be present in all of the ways you present yourself, regardless of how you are interacting with others. Confident people are confident because they use their body in confident ways!

Find Your Voice
Finding your voice involves the way you speak. You need to speak in a confident manner. Use words that exude confidence. Replace timid words such as "if" with words that are more definite, such as "when." Use a tone of voice that indicates certainty. If you want to feel certain, sound certain.

These sounds will trigger in your brain a feeling of confidence. Confident people are confident because they speak in confident ways!

Mark Victor Hansen, best known as the co-creator of the 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' empire (which is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the best-selling non-fiction book series ever), Mark is a walking success magnet! Between his books and speeches, Mark has helped countless millions of people become their very best. Visit Mark's 101 E-Book Library at http://www.IdeasThatCanChangeYourLife.com

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About Anne and IMP
Anne Warfield, CSP*
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"A true leader is not one you look up to because they are the best. A true leader is one that draws the best out in you." Anne Warfield

*CSP- Certified Speaking Professional; a designation held by only 7% of all speakers nationwide

Member of the National Speakers Association

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