If you’re lucky enough to learn from a seasoned mentor of highly paid international speakers like Burt Dubin, one of the core objectives he’ll guide you to strive for is absolute mastery of your subject.
“You must eat, drink and breathe it…Know it forwards and backwards, inside and out.” he’ll say
And if you follow his advice diligently, you will achieve significant paid speaking success – the outcome which Burt is renowned for delivering.
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Is this email not displaying correctly? Publication: Tayo Solagbade’s Weekly Public Speaking IDEAS Page (PSIP) Newsletter Date: Monday 21st January 2013 No: 73 Title: You Cannot Know Everything Author & Publisher: Tayo K. Solagbade [234-803-302-1263] Blog URL: http://www.spontaneousdevelopment.com/blog Archive (For E-mail only version started 14th May 2012): Click here to view Archive (For Blog version started 24th September 2011): Click here Hi, Please find below the latest issue of my weekly Public Speaking Ideas page for 2013.
No. 73: You Cannot Know Everything**** ********** NB: If you ever find yourself wondering what else I’ve written, some days after you’ve read THIS Speaking Ideas newsletter I send out on a Monday, here’s what you can do to find out: Point your browser to www.sdacademy.org to read at least ONE new post added to my SD Nuggets blog on a different category from Tuesday till Saturday (sometimes even Sundays) in line with this publishing schedule ********** If you’re lucky enough to learn from a seasoned mentor of highly paid international speakers like Burt Dubin, one of the core objectives he’ll guide you to strive for is absolute mastery of your subject.
And if you follow his advice diligently, you will achieve significant paid speaking success – the outcome which Burt is renowned for delivering. But Burt Dubin Will Never Teach You to Be a Know-It-AllHaving said the above, I can tell you that Burt does not teach his students to claim to know everything. Mastery of a subject does not imply having a monopoly of knowledge about it. As a master you may have a higher percentage of knowledge or information compared to others in the business. However, it is highly unlikely that you will have seen and experienced everything all other speakers in your niche market have. There will always be something new or different that you do not know. And you will not always be the one who comes up with all the new good ideas that result in advancement or progress. The above is why even Bill Gates’ Microsoft, Steve Jobs’ Apple, and other thought leaders at different times identify a need to buy over a newer or smaller company they’ve seen to have a profitable future relevant concept. It’s Also Important To Have Respect for Other People’s Knowledge & ExperienceSometimes however, the danger may not be claiming to know-it-all. Instead it could be an unconscious insensitivity to the abilities of our audience to keep up with us. One of the great lessons I learned about leading others effectively as a manager in a large multinational, was the need to be sensitive to the knowledge and experience of those I had to relate with. Back then, due to my early exposure to high profile career advancement opportunities, I found myself rubbing shoulders with – and sometimes having to lead – more senior colleagues in carrying out certain tasks and assignments. The challenge I encountered was that because of my relatively greater familiarity with the work to be done and/or the advantage of my unique skills/abilities (e.g. typing speed, spreadsheet programming, and work related stamina), I was sometimes guilty of being impatient. I tended to be unwilling to “wait” for others to bring their own contributions to the table. They Said “Slow Down Tayo!“I still recall attending a Workplace Coaching Conversations International Facilitators Workshop in Hotel Aqua Palace, Douala, Cameroon. After a group exercise one afternoon, the course instructor asked each participant to write down one feedback item for each of the other members of his/her group. With the exception of just one person, all 4 remaining members of my group (not in the exact same words of course) wrote “Slow down Tayo“! It wasn’t that they felt I looked down on them. But I was often pushing for us to move on to the next stage because I felt I’d already understood the current stage. What I was often blind to at the time was that people have different learning styles and speeds. And that I needed to be considerate and let them achieve their own understanding, before demanding that we move on! It is important to note that people being that way does NOT however make them less intelligent or competent than others. I understood that even back then. My youthful exuberance just tended to get the better of me. Following that experience, I gradually learned to be sensitive to the needs of others in my interpersonal teaching and learning interactions. I must note here however, that I’ve discovered that some people – especially when leading teaching/learning situations – readily conclude people who seem “slow” to be less intelligent. If you want to succeed whenever you speak as a professional, get that kind of thinking out of your mind – completely. If you don’t, it will taint your presentation. Your audience will pick it up in your manner. And you will not win them over! Final Words: Emulate Barack Obama – and Burt Dubin’s ExamplesA good example of a speaker who understands the above truth is Barack Obama, current president of the United States of America. Read this article linked below, for a useful analysis of how Obama achieves frequent speaking success by (among other things) acknowledging that he does not have all the answers. On a final note, and to buttress the point I made at the start of this write-up, that even Burt would not ask you to present yourself as being all-knowing, click here to visit the Resources page on his website. There you’ll read about speaking business service providers heartily recommended by Burt, to his website visitors. Note how he emphasizes the benefit to be had from one, urging you to signup to their mailing lists. It is my considered opinion that any professional truly worth his/her salt will readily acknowledge contemporaries in the same manner, without needing any incentive whatsoever. You may therefore wish to follow the examples set by President Obama and Burt Dubin. Have you downloaded Burt Dubin’s Frequently Asked Questions Slideshow? In it, he discusses the question about whether or not to speak for free – and why – in at least 2 different sections. And he provides other eye opening answers about initial steps you can take to get started in your speaking business. Click here to download it now.
Have a lovely week!
Tayo K. Solagbade* Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist *Sole Agent For Burt Dubin’s Speaker Mentoring Service In Africa Mobile: 234-803-302-1263 http://www.spontaneousdevelopment.com Tayo Solagbade is a Performance Improvement Specialist & multipreneur. He works with individuals/businesses who want to achieve highly profitable outcomes, and also with parents who want to raise real-world competent children. Tayo earns multiple streams of income providing clients with performance improvement training/coaching, custom MS Excel-VB solutions, web marketing systems, freelance writing services, and best practice extension support services (for farm business owners). When he’s not amazing clients with his superhuman skills (wink), Tayo works as the creative force behind his Self-Development Nuggets™ blog, and Public Speaking IDEAS newsletter (which he publishes to promote Burt Dubin’s Public Speaking Mentoring service to experts working across the African continent). ================== Have you been undecided about whether or not to become a paid speaker? Or have you been trying to get your speaking career off the ground with little success?Here’s a tip: Burt Dubin works with people who want to be speakers, and with speakers who want to be masters. Click here to visit his website NOW and submit a contact form message telling him what challenges you’re facing, and how you’d like him to help you. Tell him I sent you, and you’ll get a pleasant surprise offer from him. Comments?What do you think of the above message? Do you have any personal experience to share on this subject? Are there some other points you feel can be added, to help persons looking for answers? Please share your thoughts! Share this issue!Do you know anyone who might benefit from reading this newsletter issue? Why not hit the forward button now, and send it to him/her with a short recommendation. You can also use share it via your social media channels. Thanks in advance.
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