{"id":882,"date":"2015-04-14T16:27:39","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T15:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/leggett\/?p=882"},"modified":"2015-05-07T14:36:23","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T13:36:23","slug":"six-aspects-to-become-an-inspirational-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/leggett\/2015\/04\/14\/six-aspects-to-become-an-inspirational-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Aspects to Become an Inspirational Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the <strong>US presidential campaign<\/strong> under way once again,\u00a0<strong>we are about to hear, see, and read in our media what central figures like Hillary Clinton<\/strong> say to motivate and inspire the electorate to support them. <strong>Today, as in other times, there are many great speakers both inside and outside the United States<\/strong>, but we have delved into history and picked <strong>John F. Kennedy<\/strong>, the 35<sup>th<\/sup> President of the United States, to examine <strong>how he developed his skills and what lessons we can learn from his experience<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_889\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-889\" style=\"width: 745px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Hillary_Rodham_Clinton_DNC_2008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-889\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/leggett\/files\/2015\/04\/Hillary-Clinton.jpg\" alt=\"Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks during the second day of the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado. Author: Qqqqqq\" width=\"745\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/leggett\/files\/2015\/04\/Hillary-Clinton.jpg 745w, https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/leggett\/files\/2015\/04\/Hillary-Clinton-300x153.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/leggett\/files\/2015\/04\/Hillary-Clinton-500x254.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 745px) 100vw, 745px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-889\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks during the second day of the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado. Author: Qqqqqq<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Aristotle<\/strong>, in his \u2018<em>Rhetoric\u2019,<\/em> tends to give the \u2018grand\u2019 style the edge over the more \u2018forensic\u2019 approach in political communication. <strong>Political rhetoric, as Aristotle calls it, concerns the future; it concerns the benefits or harm of a proposal and it exhorts or dissuades<\/strong>. Aristotle tells us in his<em> \u2018Rhetoric\u2019<\/em><strong> that deliberative rhetoric \u201calways advises about things to come<\/strong>\u201d<strong>.<\/strong> It is about the future and <strong>persuasion<\/strong>. It is about what we should choose or what we should avoid; the possible and the impossible.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThe political orator aims at establishing the expediency or the harmfulness of a proposed course of action; if he urges its acceptance, he does so on the grounds that it will do good; if he urges its rejection, he does so on the grounds that it will do harm; and all the other points, such as whether the proposal is just or not, honorable or dishonorable, he brings in as subsidiary and relative to this main consideration\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, Chapter 3<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Our profile emphasises <strong>six principal issues that apparently helped Kennedy<\/strong>, and I think will help us in our aspiration to be <strong>inspirational speakers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Receiving constant balanced feedback on delivery style and content<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Expanding our networking, based on our interpersonal skills<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Developing TV interviewing skills,<\/strong> especially the use of our personality in our manner of speaking<\/li>\n<li><strong>Knowing what inspires audiences <\/strong>and how to construct our messages<\/li>\n<li><strong>Finding an outlet for practice<\/strong> and then practice, practice and practice<\/li>\n<li><strong>Developing a strong work ethic<\/strong>: nothing is achieved without hard work<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the US presidential campaign under way once again,\u00a0we are about to hear, see, and read in our media what central figures like Hillary Clinton say to motivate and inspire the electorate to support them. 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