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Niche Qualities of an Expert Conference Speaker

Author: Phil Jones
by Phil Jones
Posted: Apr 07, 2016

Appointing a professional speaker is equally challenging as organizing a successful interactive session. With this ever changing world, nothing is constant so is the desired capabilities of A-class speaker. In current prospective, apart from charisma, confidence, vocabulary, storytelling and convincing skills, the best conference speakers need to have high end knowledge of technology as well to make the conference. To engage mass audience in a conference, a speaker must have little more than everything mentioned above. Spotting a potential speaker is no longer a smooth process, unlike in the recent past. Go through the following page and identify the qualities of a new age conference speaker who can make your conference a big success:

Presence in the social networking site

Having account on numerous social media sites is not enough, one need to have an active participation in it. Here participation means sharing relevant contents, commenting, and having handful of real and impactful followers. Number of followers indicates a speaker’s popularity among the mass, which is important in a conference meet. Moreover, a tech savvy speaker will also share your conference video, conducted by him in these social sites thereby giving a global publicity.

Expected Salary falls with a standard bracket

A speaker is a person or not any of your kitchen appliances which your pick up on the basics of lower price band. A new age conference speaker has achieved this level due to his/her hard work, qualifications, thorough research and preparations. All these pains deserve certain level of appreciation in the form of a good salary. A speaker who demands slightly higher salary than the average rate is more trustworthy than the one who works for free. As such the expected salary within a standard bracket is a good criterion to identify an efficient speaker.

Sound knowledge in AV section

A good medium to trawl your prospective speaker’s abilities is via noting his or her tech friendliness. A potential speaker, who is very particular about the projector quality, pitch of the speaker, lights and wifi of the conference room and other critical technical details is dedicated towards his or her work and at the same time knows how to utilize technology to shape up a successful conference. This is a good way to assess the capabilities and potentials of a speaker.

Comfortable with mass crowd and promote audience interactions

Apart from being specific about the technology support, a skilled speaker must also be informative about his/her target audience. If your speaker shows interest about the conference audience while preparing for the same, like taking notes about the average age group of the audience, cultural background, mentality then you can tell that he/she is the ultimate one. An international professional speaker must indulge his/her audience in interactive sessions, question & answers round to make the presentation much more interesting. Cross check that your potential speaker is ready to execute all these plans. One who claims that he is masters of all these is over-confident and strike them out on the neonatal stage of selection.

In brief it can be sated that, it is your look out to pick the best possible speaker for your own interest, so hunt for these above mentioned qualities in him/her. A jewel speaker is hard-working and is not over-powered by confidence. Phil m Jones is an outstanding motivational speaker who needs a special regard in this domain. He has a respectable position in the international platform as an adept sales tailor. He observes periodic conferences and audio-visual sessions. Log on to his official website, philmjones.com for more details.

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Philmjones is a sales Trainer, sales coach, conference speaker & professional speaker.

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