Speech & Seminar Expert Asks: Is A Dynamic Delivery Overrated?

I was selected as part of an elite team to train 18,000 senior U.S. Navy managers in 18 months.

It was part of a bold initiative to help them to focus on results, to be more effective administrators, and at the conclusion of the program the consensus was that we were tremendously successful in imparting information, especially to resistant learners.

After I was recruited, I was assigned to a master trainer to observe and emulate him, but it was the last thing I wanted to do. I had taught speech communication at the college level for 5 years, and I was already a highly paid seminar leader in my own consulting business, so I doubted he had anything to teach me.

Moreover, his DELIVERY sucked!

He seemed to hem and haw, and bumble along in a monotone, and he was anything but dynamic. If I had to grade his performances, he would have squeaked by with a