Is A Business Speaker Truly Equipped To Assist A Company To Thrive?

By Carole Hodges

Good business speakers usually have some form of identifiable success and experience. This success could be in the business world, for example successfully running or creating companies. The speaker could be a successful gold medallist or have climbed Mount Everest. The speaker might not be in the same field as your company but there are a range of skills and experiences that relate to a vast array of situations. One such common experience across a range of fields is how to constructively criticise without making people feel bad, ensuring they are encouraged to undertake changes. A further example is how to continually keep people focused and driven when there is a lot of difficult or lengthy work to be done. If a speaker can demonstrate personal success, they are far more likely to inspire their audience.

Business speakers can help you to form a clear vision of where you want to take your company. They can provide customised business plans to help your company reach its goals one step at a time. Speakers can help you to identify your target market correctly and provide different marketing strategies for your company. Business speakers can assist your company to implement money-saving changes to your manufacturing, service or distribution.

In difficult economic periods a company needs to push its creativity to beat the competition, keep or increase its steady income and ensure their employees feel like valued team members. A business speaker has the experience and skills necessary to influence all levels of employees. Teambuilding and leadership exercises can be led by a speaker, and the speaker can also offer strategies for excellent communication and customer service. Employees who can interact well with customers and take on board their suggestions will help a company to thrive. If employees listen to what customers want, you'll be able to supply the services and/or products your customers want. By having regular brainstorming sessions, employees can share their own points of view and their own suggestions and the sessions will also strengthen teamwork. Having company workshops helps to create and strengthen the loyalty employees feel towards a company as they feel like they are appreciated members of the company as opposed to nameless employees working below managers.

You need to make sure you match the right speaker with the right audience. A sales speaker for example will be beneficial for a sales team audience, but not nearly as beneficial to a technical support audience. A good business speaker will personalise each address to the particular audience being addressed. Ascertain if the business speakers you're interested in are successful at speaking and have been speaking successfully for a long time. If you'd like to find further information on them, find out if they have written any books you could read.

It's also good to get feedback on the speaker from those being addressed. Find out what they learned from the speaker and put into action useful things that have been learnt. Ascertain what parts of the address they enjoyed most or if there were parts they didn't enjoy. A boring speaker will lose the interest of the audience very quickly, which means you have not received value for your money. This feedback can be done through anonymous questionnaires so people are likely to be honest in their responses. In summary, good speakers can be very beneficial to your company, helping you to implement and succeed on deadlines and drive the growth of your business.

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