Professional Keynote Speaker

They say it’s harder to make people laugh than it is to make them cry. So,
whenever I get a chance, I visit comedy clubs so I can improve as a Conference Keynote Speaker. When you go to a club, don’t let your personal hang-ups keep you from learning from these experts in humor. Can you look past the swearing, the off-color jokes, and even the occasional novice who tries to embarrass you? If you can, you win. The masters of comedy that I yearn to observe are the experts who allow me to relax, have fun, and to laugh—even at myself. Learn this magical technique and good
things will come your way. Think about it…one of the great pleasures from speaking is
to see an audience smiling and laughing, and ready for a truth. I’m there to study how a comedian makes an the audience laugh and imitate that in my conference keynote speaking.

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As Professsional Business Speaker one skill and potential power you possess is the power of your subconscious. Overstatement? I don’t think so. Consider a few of the empowering thoughts found in my favorite book on the subconscious, Hidden Power: How to Unleash the Power of Your Subconscious Mind, by James K. Van Fleet:
• …[Your subconscious] is a source of energy stronger than electricity, more powerful than high speed explosives. Your subconscious mind is unlimited, infinite, and inexhaustible. It never
rests, for it keeps right on working for you even when you are asleep…
• …Of all the creatures on this earth, man is the only one who does not need to depend upon past experience to control his future. Another way of saying this is that man is the only one of God’s creations who is allowed to finish the act of Creation himself… …Your subconscious mind will react automatically to give you whatever you program into it, either real or imagined…
• …It is important to point out to you here that your subconscious
mind will not take the trouble to work for you if you do not believe in
it. Next, it is also highly important that in transmitting your message
to your subconscious mind, you should do so in the spirit that the
work has already been done.

Let’s apply these concepts to being a Professsional Business Speaker. To maximize your abilities, you must not just hope that one day you will be a better speaker, but already believe that you’re a
good conference keynote speaker. This is the key!
The vast majority of people I train and coach do not think this way. They come in with the belief that they’re not very good keynote speakers and are just hoping for some improvement. Of course, this belief is the opposite of what is needed to activate your subconscious mind to produce positive results. For most of my life, I’ve wanted to be a Professsional Business Speaker. Yet, I found that
when people would ask me what I did, I’d say something like — “Oh, you know…a little
of this and a little of that…oh yeah, I also enjoy speaking…maybe, one day, I’ll be a
professional speaker.” Even in the last five years, after having been a corporate motivational speaker in my company, I’d still tell people that I did training, worked for conferences, and sometimes
dabbled as a professional business speaker. But this past year, something phenomenal happened. I was on an airplane when a gentleman sitting next to me began talking with me.
“What do you do for a living?” For some reason, I looked directly at him and replied,
“I’m a professional business speaker.”
I amazed myself when I responded with those words. “professional business speaker”?!
Never before had I answered the question that way. And, even more amazingly,
my schedule soon started to shift. Fewer meetings, fewer trainings, more conference keynote
speaking. I had never done conference keynotes speech before, but that’s what I do all the time now.

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A Professional in any arena is one who learns to embrace feedback.  A professional business speaker must seek it and yearn for it.  I believe the “ball and chain” that impedes our desire to learn from others is our ego. This is our number one enemy—our own EGO!  A professional business speaker once told me that he only listens to the feedback of a fellow professional speaker.  And I replied sadly, “I’m sorry to hear that.” I responded that way because when it comes to getting some worthwhile information after giving a speech or a training session, some of the best and most practical input you can ever receive is right there on the feedback sheets. And a lot of people don’t even read them.  Why?  I think it’s that ego. I once attended a three-day training session in San Diego.  Overall, it was quite impressive, but at the end of the third day, a participant in the class asked the instructor whether we would have a chance to evaluate the past three days.  The business speaker answered, “No, I don’t believe in evaluations or feedback because I think most times only negative things are said, and I’d rather not hear it.”  I was slapped by her response and a little insulted.  Did she not even care about our experience?  I realized that so many of the things that had upset people probably could have been avoided had that conference keynote speaker paid attention to feedback from prior training sessions.  So why no feedback?  That infernal ego?  I will say that you should not take to heart every criticism as a professional business speaker.

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