#1 Key to Success, How Often You are Invited to Speak The following is a time-coded transcript of the show: 00 warning you might be seeing confirmation bias here 0:13 speaking the show about effective speaking in public to the media at work 0:21 and in life speaking with TJ Walker so how many be careful here I do believe 0:33 confirmation bias is a real thing and we can all be guilty of it so i may be 0:38 guilty of it here but someone sent this to be the good folks over it in design 0:42 the website this is from a study from public management magazine they did a 0:50 survey and it reports that the number one indicator of success in any 0:56 profession is not how well you speak you might have thought that I said that it 1:02 might be if it's not how much you enjoy speaking according to this magazine it's 1:08 how often you are asked to deliver presentations now I have to get this i 1:15 never really thought of it quite that way but when you think about it does add 1:19 up how many people do you know who are not very good at their profession not 1:25 respected and are asked to speak all the time I can't think of anyone says I mean 1:30 there are public speakers out there that you don't respect at least somebody does 1:34 somebody's respecting human and probably paying them a lot of money if you have 1:40 heard of them and they don't work right next to the cubicle next to you so it's 1:44 a it's really a fascinating way of looking at this I have course as a 1:48 presentation expert have often said that communication skills the most important 1:53 skill you can have and i began confirmation bias working i could point 1:58 to all sorts of CEOs who claim that they have to spend ninety percent of their 2:02 time communicating i could . as other presentation coaches do to warren 2:07 buffett saying one of the most important things you ever did was take a Dale 2:10 Carnegie class 60 years ago but this is a slightly different twist of how often 2:17 you're asked to give a presentation and I think it's it does open a window to 2:23 new insights Oh 2:25 whether you love to speak or not doesn't matter but if you care about your career 2:28 advancement you should care about how often you're asked to speak now someone 2:34 like a president former president bill clinton or or any celebrity and 2:40 politician of that stature is probably and getting a hundred invitations a day 2:46 to speak to turn down the vast majority are you at the point we have to turn 2:51 down the majority of speaking invitations or even any one way to get 2:58 more invitations and it's just one way one way is to actually give a great 3:02 presentation every time you speak the best way unless you're at elon musk or 3:08 Mark Zuckerberg and you just created something so fabulous and created so 3:12 many billionaires one of the best ways to get invited to speak more is to speak 3:16 really well every single time you speak interesting observation i'll try to dig 3:23 deeper into the methodology if I really think it's bogus i'll let you know but 3:27 it did jump out at me 3:29 post your comments here in the discussion section Thanks for listening to Speaking with TJ Walker. The show about public speaking, media training, presentation skills, crisis communications, and presentation training. Please send any speaking-related questions you have directly to TJ at [email protected] and he will answer them in future episodes. Please connect with us at Media Training Worldwide and post your questions here http://www.mediatrainingworldwide.com/blog/ On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tjwalkerinteractive Twitter: https://twitter.com/tjwalker Linkedin: T.J. Walker Youtube https://www.youtube.com/user/MediaTraining iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/id1072936158?mt=2&ls=1 Receive Free online Public Speaking or Media Training Course today http://www.mediatrainingworldwide.com/give-away.html Call +1.212.764.4955 now to discuss a customized media training or presentation training program for you or your organization. For keynote speech and media inquiries, call +1.212.764.4955 Online media and presentation training at http://www.mediatrainingworldwide.com/online-training.html Media Training Worldwide teaches people how to speak effectively to the media and to live audiences. We train people on all aspects of media training, public speaking, PowerPoint Presentations, crisis communications and presentation training.

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