A good strategy for communicating more effectively is to help your audience listen more effectively. To make your message more "listenable," you have to be able to understand it from your listeners' perspective.
The most critical link in the communication circuit is the part that sits between the listener's ears. How effectively the speaker articulates a message is not as important as how effectively the audience tunes into and listens to it.
To make sure your communication is well organized, you must creates an outline. Insure you don't leave out any important points, you makes a list of everything you want to say.
Tell stories:
First, good jokes and good communications are often structured as stories. An apt story is a compact and memorable way to represent meaning. Also, it's better to show than to tell. Good stories usually demonstrate principles more vividly than listing those principles in abstraction.
Exploit the power of context:
Second, their power comes as much from what they leave unsaid as from what they say. They work best when they paint a contextual picture using just a few brush strokes, leaving listeners to fill in details and create meaning based on their own experience.
Set it up, then fire:
Once a joke sets up the context, the punch line strikes the listener like a bolt of lightning. The thunder clap arrives milliseconds later when the listener's mind catches up and ties the threads together.
Use format for meaning, not for impact:
A good joke usually follows a predictable format that supports the joke's punch line, allowing listeners to focus on the meaning of the joke.
Look for the twist:
Just as a predictable joke isn't very funny, a predictable speech or presentation isn't very "listenable." Both need to deliver a surprise, an unexpected twist that forces listeners to see things from a different perspective.
******Sense of meaning is like sense of humor. In fact, good speeches have a lot in common with good jokes******
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