SPEAK WITH CANDOR

we speak to express never to impress. The good impression is a result of how we were able to
immediately connect with our audience. Candor means we are candid, the quality of being
honest, fair, sincere, truthful, outspoken and the simple.
Being candid means, telling it like it is, calling a spade a spade. When we speak candidly, it is
engaging our audience or listeners to an enlarged conversation. They can feel our sincerity and
simplicity.
Just like a candid smile or a candid picture taken, one can feel the spontaneity or honesty.
it helps when we also become vulnerable. Our audience sees us as human, not always the perfect
hero. We do not exert too much effort on trying to come out as an eloquent speaker or a fiery one
that detaches us from the real setting.
We are familiar with, “what you see is what you get.” of course as professionals, we owe it to
our audience to come prepared, competent, and knowledgeable with our subject matter.
With our competence, we readily connect with our audience when they feel that you are
engaging them on a fair and the honest platform, that you can also be vulnerable, that you are
sharing knowledge, not talking above their heads. With candor, you don't ram down information
down their throats. You become a storyteller which gives you an entertainment value. When you
speak with candor, you speak the language they understand and can easily relate with you. When
you lay down your terms and define them, they will appreciate it.
Thus, when you call a spade a spade, they will readily understand. Using the language, they
know does not mean going all we even if it can be offensive for others. We should be able to
strike a balance. We uplift and educate our audience even if we must be candid.
Being candid also means admitting our mistakes and when they see or vulnerabilities, they see
someone real and human. Not some sort of hero.
Admitting our mistakes humbly and graciously win our audience over to our side as they feel our
sincerity. Speaking before a large audience makes it an enlarged conversation.

SPEAK WITH CREDIBILITY

“Say what you mean and mean what you say.”
Our online landscape can be overwhelming with opinionated facts passed on as credible, reliable,
or A-1 information from reputable sources.
When we speak, there will be times that we need to cite our sources that we need to verify and
substantiate. We need to check where our information is coming from and double check if it a
named source. is the authors name published or the website clearly identified? We also need to
check how old the. now, this does not mean old information is obsolete. These are studies,
traditions and practices that are still relevant, valuable, and adhered to.
Our newsfeed can be flooded by conflicting and confusing data, and it is easy to be overwhelmed
by all the emotion tied to what we share and the consume online. We also grapple with the
proliferation of fake news.
we often hear the question, “is he readable?” People have expectations and among them would
be our competence in the subject matter, our sense of professionalism and the ethical values we
demonstrate.
Credibility also refers to or respect of other people beliefs and the opinions while holding on to
what we feel end Bellevue. It can make us disagree without being disagreeable. Or credibility
and power us with the confidence to let our arguments go through a crucible of debate.
We bought our statements with the well research data and thoroughly prepared presentation.
We follow a rule of thumb, stop, and think. Carol Durell says, “reputation is what somebody is
known for, while credibility is reputation impacting one's ability to be believed.” When we don't
keep our word, error, we lose credibility. When we lose credibility, we break the bonds of trust.”
One's reputation as a speaker is not build overnight. it is the result of hard work, determination,
and the sheer love for the craft. We are credible when we refrain from making sweeping
statements and the history generalizations. We are credible because we know our stuff. We came
prepared. We did our homework.
SPEAK WITH THE CONVICTION AND PURPOSE
“The Drama of Existence Is Not Death but Never Having Begun to Live.”
- Marcus Aurelius
The time to live is always now. Or sense of conviction fuels the passion in our speech and our
purpose steer us clearly towards the direction.
Our audience can feel the conviction in our voice and can tell the difference whether we are just
declaring facts. The conviction in our voice creates a connection with them as their feelings and
sentiments are roused. they feel the engagement, they can feel you.
The conviction with which you state yours points and your purpose in raising them sends those
ripples of connectivity to your audience.
Would you want them to speak up and express their dissent as well? Do you want to shake them
out of their complacency and indifference? Do you want them to be more involved, to place their
own stakes, do you want them to be a positive force for change?
Is your conviction powerful enough to compel them to rise and be accountable, to go beyond
their comfort zones and realize for themselves that they may never be given a chance to make a
difference in this world? Is your purpose clearly a spelled out in the mandate that each one of
them matter?
Give them tangible solutions that are doable. lead them to chart their own path by beginning with
what they have, what they know. Start small but let the purpose be constant, that they do not lose
sight of the goal.
Our conviction and how we live that in upholding what is right and just and the purpose with
which we express it, puts the eloquence in our speech.