Having a good idea is not enough in business; professionals must be able to convey their ideas effectively and persuasively if they want to be heard. Motivational speaker and MD of Source Marketing Direct, Hector Montalvo offers some top tips.
The Managing Director of Source Marketing Direct is extremely experienced and highly competent at public speaking. As a result, Hector Montalvo is regularly invited as guest speaker to industry events and has spoken to audiences that include entrepreneurs and business owners, all over the UK and other parts of the world. Source Marketing Direct knows how important it is to be a good and confident public speaker in businesses, due to the avenues it opens up. Good public speaking can create enormous opportunities for innovation and can inspire people to achieve in the business world. It also shows an audience that a company has great leadership and is destined for future success.
Hector Montalvo of Source Marketing Direct outlines 4 tips below:
To be a good public speaker, the person delivering the speech should focus on the usefulness that the presentation will be to the audience and to focus on their needs. To help focus on the audience, before writing a speech the speaker should ask them self ‘what does my audience need to hear from me?’ The audience should be the one in the spotlight and it helps tailor the message to the recipients.
There needs to be some emotion within the speech. People remember emotionally charged messages much easier than ones riddled with facts and statistics. Emotional responses have a fast track to our long term memory, according to scientists so emotion should be used either within the content or as part of the delivery.
All great public speakers will practice effectively. By practicing effectively, it means to physically stand and deliver the speech as you would be on the day. Effective practice will help memorise the speech and the delivery on the day will be much more confident.
‘Up talking’ is the habit of raising the pitch of a voice at the end of a sentence. This can confuse audiences, because it can make a sentence sound like a question. Practice breathing whilst delivering the speech to avoid this mistake.
Hector Montalvo has over 14 years experience in outsourced direct sales and business development. He was recently awarded ‘Business Owner of the Year’ for all of the accomplishments of productivity and growth of his organisation in 2013. Hector Montalvo is a regular speaker at industry events in the major cities of the UK including, London, Manchester, Leeds and Birmingham and has also experienced speaking in other countries such as South Africa and the USA.