After I had gained the experience of teaching university-level public speaking classes for many years, I arrived at a surprising realization. Some people just are born with an innate skill at communicating well verbally. The same is probably true about Olympic athletes and great actors. You are born to be good at one thing or another.
So, while some are born to be great verbal communicators, others suffer through public speaking 101 in college and yet emerge nonetheless as mediocre speakers. I don’t mean to depress you here, but I want you to know what’s going on the real world.
However, the positive spin on this is you can become better at communicating verbally, no matter what your starting skill level might be.
The key to becoming better at verbal communication is to model how you communicate based on someone else’s success.
Copyright © 2012, Woody Goulart. All Rights Reserved.
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