Master your speaking skills
Use the left to define your
objectives.
Move right to visualize success.
Move left to allay fears. Start
with writing a few points on the board. Speaking out loud - a left brain
activity - calms your might brain's fears. Move again to right to give a clear
overall picture of your presentation.
Bring order by paraphrasing,
summarizing and asking questions. Simply and use analogies and metaphors.
Don't use logic to convince
somebody who is responding from his right brain (angrily, etc.). Either shift
him to the left by asking relevant questions or shift to the right yourself.
Say, for example: “I share your feelings.” Once the boss feels that his right
brain views are responded to with similar views, empathy will make him
receptive.
Don't keep providing information
pertaining to one side of the brain and letting the other sit idle. If you are
carrying heavy luggage you need to change hands every two to three minutes to
feel comfortable. So, arrange your presentation in such a way that the listener
may not need to carry on listening only to what is of interest to one side.
Logic, analysis, statistics should be interspersed with feelings, emotions,
metaphors, analogies, jokes and interesting anecdotes and inputs pertaining to
smell, taste, sounds, the texture and the visual.
Give attention and importance to
gestures, tone, pace, variation in volume and other elements of non-verbal
communication of the other person(s) in order to understand the hidden inner
responses so that you can adapt to the same both as a listener and a speaker and
also to grasp the communication in totality - not merely its verbal part.
Pieces of information with inputs
pertaining to both left and the right brain are assimilated better by the
listener (or even the reader). In order to memorize something, pay attention to
both kinds of inputs so that you have at your disposal a strong bunch of
associations which may help you (and the listeners too) to register, retain and
recall a piece of information better.
