{"id":132,"date":"2008-03-26T09:14:30","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T08:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elementally.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/2008\/03\/26\/america-the-brave\/"},"modified":"2008-03-26T09:14:30","modified_gmt":"2008-03-26T08:14:30","slug":"america-the-brave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/america-the-brave\/","title":{"rendered":"America the Brave…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I sat down this morning to do some research on speaking styles with reference to the American Presidential election campaign. I was particulalry interested in the Democratic race for the nomination (because there’s nothing interesting about the Republican non-race).<\/p>\n

I found this<\/a>: pretty much job done, in many ways.<\/p>\n

Essentially, the article discusses in a little detail the fact that Obama’s at a bit of an advantage because his style of public speaking is better than Clinton’s. (I’m inclined to agree – Clinton can sound badly like a fish-wife if she’s not careful.) Ironic, isn’t it, that she’s the wife of one of the best public speaker the modern world has seen! :)<\/p>\n

Clinton’s response? Far from trying to improve her style, she’s tried (hard) to move beyond issues of style at all, already accepting, implicitly, that it’s a battle she’s lost. But it won’t do. It’s not working. People aren’t always able to hear the content of her speeches because the style of delivery<\/em> can rub them up the wrong way.<\/p>\n

And closer to home (this blog is written by a presentation skills trainer in the UK) look at the relative popularity of Blair and Brown. One of them was a natural orator, one of them not so. You may or may not like or approve of either of them (or what they say) but the statistics are on my side!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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