How To Be A Credible Speaker

We need to be a credible speaker because audience is more likely to believe what credible speaker says. Most audience will listen to your presentation based on suspicion. They will not take the actions as you expected unless they trust you.

Three methods to establish yourself as a credible speaker:

Frist, using quotations or stories of famous people or experts in the field. Audience will trust experts’ words and stories because their advanced knowledge and experience make them credible. Therefore, if the presenter himself is an expert, he can use his own stories to support his opinion. If he is not, he can use other expert’s quotations and stories to support. However, the presenter should choose an expert in the same field. For instance, the presenter is doing a presentation about economy. His presentation is more credible if he cited a quotation of a famous ecologist rather than just talk about what he thinks or use a quotation of a biologist.

Your audience, especially skeptics, are more likely to believe you if you show them data and statistics. They do not believe pure-words presentations because all the presenters can use fancy words to describe his products or state his purpose. However, if you provide data or statistic to them and show them a credible source, they will believe you have done the surveys and have already know the current conditions. Data and statistics not only shows your statements are credible, it also shows that you well prepared, which increases your credibility. For example, audience are more likely to trust the speaker if he says “xxx study shows, the battery of our cell phone can last 10 year, compared to 3 years of other brands’” rather than “you should buy our cell phone because its battery last longer than other