Emoting to influence

Before you start reading further, think what emoting is all about and how does it help us big time in relating to the people around us. Now what is emoting according to you?

Let me start with my perspective on emoting. I personally find that emoting is all about freedom of expression. There is no single yardstick to set standards for emoting and it basically involves facial reactions, body language, the posture, the tone of voice, the words one chooses to use while addressing people and hand gestures.
                         
                                         

While delivering a public speech, one can seem to appear confident enough by his body language and smile, but the words he uses and the tone of voice he chooses to deliver them to the public will outlay his nervousness in abundance.

Also the eye contact he/she makes with the audience is an extremely important mode of emoting. In order to appear confident, one has to make constant eye contact with the audience frequently in order to gain their trust on what he is to speak.

A voice that is feeble and low will not appeal the audience. A confident voice which has a great throw will always catch the attention of the audience. An interactive session will also probe them on the topic that the speaker is addressing thereby making the audience more involved in the session.

Coming to the part about hand gestures, frequent waving or gesturing to the public might make the speaker animated and funny at times. This might prove to be a big time distraction away from the topic that is to be addressed. Typically put, the audience must be involved in the speech rather than the speaker.

A confident and straight body posture might add value to the speaker among the audience. Maintaing a rigid body posture might show out signs of nervousness or stage fear while an extremely careless posture may prove the speaker to be overconfident. Both of these styles don't work out on capturing the attention of the addressee . Rather, if the speaker appears to have a normal body posture, the audience feel more invited.

Wrong facial reactions at the wrong time might send out alarmingly wrong messages to the audience. Keeping facial reactions to a minimum might help the audience concentrate more on the content of the speech rather than the speaker.

The most significant feature that makes a great speech is the tone of voice that the speaker adopts while delivering his speech. You can make a request, command, threaten or influence people all with the same words, but the different tones of speech that you choose to experiment with. You can appal or mock cartloads of audience with a few simple words but a great tone of voice.

Emoting properly with all possible facets of expression will help you take off well in a public speech. Emoting should be conciously done to influence people to listen and adhere to what you say, not only while addressing a large crowd but to generally relate to the people around you.

When used properly it can make you a great influencer and you will be able to make greater impact in other people. It also increases the trust that the addressee has in you (the speaker). Start slow by practicing to emote well in your day-to-day life and increase your yardstick everyday to greater heights and greater influencing. Happy emoting!