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I was a shy and introverted student who learned to become more confident and more effective as a communicator and speaker. I’m still an introvert. That means that I can participate in public engagement and then I need alone time to recharge. You can be an introvert and still be a confident speaker.
What I do for them is I observe how they come across and I think about who’s their audience. What does their audience need? What’s the mindset of their audience? And I help the executive deliver the message in a way that the audience gets it and understands it and acts on it. I saw one of your videos where you put it nicely. These senior executives are technicians. They know what they know, and they don’t know how to convey that effectively.
They’re not effective communicators. Yeah it’s true many leaders are leaders because of their technical expertise. They could be an accountant, an engineer or operations person and that’s how they got to lead their department and maybe eventually the company, but they are grounded in the technical part and that’s the language that they use. When they become the leader of an organization they need to speak the language of the common person the common person in the company and the common person in their market.
Your Intended Message is the podcast about how we communicate, the mistakes we make and how we might communicate better.
Enjoy these video interviews with George Torok, presentations skills expert. You’ll hear practical presentation tips. You’ll discover more about George’s style of speaking and training.
Presentation tips from George Torok, The Speech Coach for Executives.
Enjoy these tips, presented in the following 6 videos, to improve your presentation skills. Five of these videos are under 90 seconds. Add your comments and questions below.
Effective Executive Speaking at the Canadian Management Centre in Toronto with George Torok and John Robert Colombo. Presentation training for executives in Toronto. George and John delivered this program for 12 years while working with hundreds of executives and senior leaders to enhance their executive speaking skills.
