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Public Speaking Skills: President Obama is a Good Public Speaker
EmailI have written an article called 5 Ways to Speak Like Obama on Bnet.com about President Obama’s abilities as a public speaker–saying that he is skilled at connecting with audiences, making the complex clear, and using his voice and body language to project confidence and authority.
The article has brought out opposing views. Some of them seem to be opposed to Obama’s policies rather than his speaking skills, but others make good points.
They accuse him of simply being good at reading scripts on a TelePrompter. I admire the President’s comfort with the TelePrompter, but some have said that this is no indication of oratorical skill or leadership ability. Perhaps we could train a chimpanzee to use a TelePrompter, but we couldn’t train one to write Candidate Obama’s speech on race, or deliver it with such restrained passion.
Whatever you think of TelePrompters, they are tools that speakers must learn to use. The President is not an actor who is given 4 weeks to learn his lines. He gives dozens of talks a day and must use the tools at his disposal.
On another front, many of the comments on the article on Bnet make the point that when President Obama goes off script, he says “er” and “uhm” a whole lot, and that does not inspire confidence. At the same time, one or two commenters mention that his speaking skills are tools of deception, and that I am advocating that business speakers develop their ability to “seem” authentic, or “appear” confident and authoritative.
(Interesting that they fault the President for saying “er” and “uhm” while at the same time fault him for being slick.)
While I agree that authenticity and genuineness are attractive traits, and that there is a thin line between “polished” and “slippery,” I also know that nobody follows a weak trumpet.
In a job that requires non-stop public speaking, a good man with bad speaking skills will be less effective than a bad man with good speaking skills.
We as Americans want a leader who is ethical, smart enough to figure out how to solve our problems, and tough enough to get the job done.
And by the way, he better be a good speaker, too.
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