While watching a video of leadership guru John Maxwell I almost missed a nugget of pure gold. When he first wanted to get better at speaking he developed this habit:
“I was starting to go observe communicators. When I would listen to someone speak, I wouldn’t listen too much about what the subject was. It really didn’t matter. I would ask myself one question the whole time I would listen to them speak. And the question was: ‘Are they connecting with their audience?’ ”
“And I would write down, if they were not connecting, why they were not. And if they were connecting, why they were.”
“In about two years I became a master at how to connect with an audience.”
His career success as a speaker and leadership trainer bears out the value of that strategy.
The next speaker you hear, ask yourself: “Are they connecting with their audience?” Consider taking a few notes.
