Public Speaking Tip The Power of the Pause Video Lecture | Be a Leader: Leadership Development Course - Management

oh I'm Brian Tracy and I'd like to share
with you one of the little-known secrets
of the top professional speakers and it
is called the power of the pause now in
speaking the drama and power of the
speech is contained in the silences that
you create as you move from point to
point and this is an art and you can
learn with practice many speakers are
nervous when they stand up in front of
an audience as a result they speak
faster with a higher pitch to their
voice and without pausing when you are
more relaxed you speak slower you pause
regularly and you have a deeper and more
authoritative tone of voice as either a
man or a woman now there's nothing as
attention-grabbing as a pause when you
pause you bring people up short they
mentally trip and fall into the silence
that you have created they immediately
give you back their full attention each
time you pause go silent smile you get
them to recenter themselves on you and
what you are saying
but for instance the dramatic pause is
used to make a particular point stick in
the minds of your audience you can use a
dramatic pause immediately before
delivering an important point and you
can use a dramatic pause immediately
afterwards to allow people to absorb the
importance of what you just said for
example I would say there are three keys
to your doubling your income in the next
six months if you practice these keys
nothing can stop you from earning more
money than you've ever earned before key
number one is this and you start and at
the end you stop key number two is this
and then you start and describe it and
then you stop and at the end you just
stop and allow people to absorb
another pause you can use is called the
sentence completion pause this should be
illegal because it's so powerful and
this is where you make a statement or
quote a line that everyone is heard
before and knows the words when you give
the first half of the line or even
nine-tenths of the line the audience
mentally leans forward to complete the
sentence with you this causes them to
engage more closely with you and to
listen with greater than tenderness to
what you're saying now whenever you use
this technique you must discipline
yourself to stop and wait until the
audience speaks up and completes this
end you then repeat the words to finish
the thought you'll have the total
attention of the audience here's an
example of what I do I'm talking about
selling and running a business in
competitive times and I say but you're
not afraid of that because when the
going gets tough the tough get going
everybody in the audience completes the
cents they leave for the go going they
always stain it they don't necessarily
speak aloud but they finish the sentence
in your mind their mind so it's very
powerful technique you can use thanks
for watching how have you used pauses
effectively in your speeches please
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