Saturday, April 30, 2022

How are top speakers different?


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

An article by Carmine Gallo at the Harvard Business Review on April 27, 2022 titled What the best presenters do differently describes how the best (storytellers) differ from the rest of us, who merely are presenters. Five crucial differences are that:

 

Presenters open PowerPoint. Storytellers craft a narrative.

Presenters use text. Storytellers love pictures.

Presenters dump data. Storytellers humanize it.

Presenters are predictable. Storytellers surprise audiences.

Presenters practice silently. Storytellers rehearse out loud.

 

My cartoon was Photoshopped using a cartoon of a Happy Male Public Speaker with a background from a Jerome Thompson painting of The Belated Party on Mansfield Mountain, both from Wikimedia Commons.

 


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