Master Trainer - E Brisgel: Inside Qualities that Make a Great Speaker

E Brisgel is the Co-Founder and Director of Sales & Training at Financial Literacy Institute.  He is also the Master Trainer at Training Mastery.  Furthermore, he is the founding CEO at E Works.  More information about E Brisgel can be found at www.flislo.com.  Please see below for his sharing to become a better public speaker.

The most important quality a "speaker" needs is the ability to read and understand their audience. Clarity, passion, knowledge of a subject are great qualities.  However, without the ability to recognize the needs, thoughts, concerns, and makeup of the audience they will never be able to adjust their style, content, message to connect in any meaningful way. Masterful speakers know their audience better than the audience themselves. They are the speakers who at times feel to the participants as though the speaker is reading their minds and is speaking directly only to them. The speaker’s words hit them with impact and leave an indelible impression often moving the audience to act/change. These are the remarkable speakers whose impact creates movement in people, stories to told to friends and associates, sales to happen, additional events booked and products at the back of the room to fly off the table without so much as an intimation of sales pitch.

The next is clarity of purpose.  For example, having an unflinching lock on the end result they intend to achieve with their audience both quantitatively and qualitatively. A speaker who speaks from experience and a deep understanding of that experience can not only convey information ( a CD player can do that) but can deliver it with the emotional fuel comprised of qualities like empathy, compassion, inspiration, passion and love, that reach people at their core. Great speakers with this characteristic reach an audience with a whisper that feels to the listener what others with great volume and gimmicky stage shticks only try to produce. A great speaker spends more time focusing on their purpose than they do their materials. They refine it, rehearse it mentally and they literally become it. This is the same trait that great athletes and teams have when they move to championship or world record setting levels. They’ve literally won the competition long before the day of the event.

GREAT speakers are actually educators, true teachers; people whose focus is entirely on the student/audience. An educator knows their subject inside out and backwards and has no need to focus inwardly on themselves or their words, style, materials, looks, etc. An educator has a love of the student that is deep and abiding. From here they access whatever means necessary to convey the point with power and influence. This trait alone is responsible for breaking through to the student and their often rigid beliefs. This is the trait that allows a great speaker/educator to say literally ANYTHING to the student where others would offend. The single biggest impediment to another person’s ability to learn is their own pre-existing (conscious or unconscious) beliefs and true educators not only understand this but know what those beliefs are and have in themselves examined them and know the path to changing them as they have done in themselves. This most elusive and difficult to quantify trait is what makes for remarkable educators. Many of us have been fortunate to have been touched by these rare individuals and yet are often at a loss for words to explain why they are so different and unique from the next speaker using the same words.

You know when you are in the presence of a great speaker/educator. You can feel it. You are captivated, moved, inspired, and often changed and often don’t know why. Great teachers make subjects clear, simple and easy to understand because they take the responsibility for the student learning and they don’t take it lightly. It’s uncanny how we can hear the words before from others and not be moved until delivered to us by these impassioned teachers who live to better the lives of others. They see their student’s challenges and their student’s capacity for greatness. They hold their students in the greatest of esteem and want more for the student than the student even knows is possible. They love their students /audiences for who they are and who they hope to be and their goals always encompass making the student stronger, smarter, faster and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, beyond the skills of the speaker/teacher themselves.

For over 30 years we have trained hundreds of thousands of people and thousands of trainers. Some of them are quite well known gurus. Our passion is about making superstars of trainers, speakers, facilitators, teachers, coaches, executives and performers so this subject is near and dear to my heart. There are many other qualities that make for exceptional speakers such as the values and principles they live by that give them great moral character but that’s a subject for another day or another post.

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