Have you ever wondered why the stage is kept at a higher level than the ground ?
Or a better question yet
Why make a stage ? Why cant speakers just speak on the common ground ? If you notice most of the podiums I have seen have got about 3 inches of standing space , There should be some reason to it right

The answer is that when a speaker is being called in front of the audience to speak, it means that the speaker has accomplished something or has a certain amount of additional knowledge that he / she is going to share with us. That places the speaker on a higher level at that point in the meeting room for the speaker to move up higher or be considered as someone who deserves to be up there.

When we look at ourselves from the point of view of the audience we come to attend a seminar or are invited where a speaker is going to share his knowledge , we frame up a mindset in our sub conscious mind that we need to learn from this person. If for whatever reason we feel otherwise than definitely it must be through some error that you have wind up being in that room. You can’t be in a seminar , pay for the ticket or take the efforts of going to the location if we do not feel the speaker deserves our time and money .Right ?

Just as how the speaker tries to put in his best effort to make a positive impact on the audience , in the same way the audience too has the expectation that they want to hear and better yet see a great performance. However a public seminar gathering is way different from a dance show or a television game show program. Even though the speaker can add elements of fascinating entertainment sessions in between like a dance program or a magic show or a scene from a movie , it still comes back to one common bases, What is the knowledge that is being shared with the audience?

Many speakers now days boost up the entertainment factor in the seminars or in their speeches by sacrificing the value of the content for which the audience are being seated. Even though games , entertainment are a great way to enlighten the atmosphere , it should be a part of the package not the package itself . If the audience does not feel that they have in anyways benefited or learnt anything new from the speaker. They would not want to waste their time listening to them the second time. Time is valuable for everyone. What value are you giving to the audience in that valuable time?

The reason why most people don’t wind up making an impact to the audience is because very often speakers simply copy paste the knowledge that they have got through reading books and surfing internet and they frame up modules by simply collecting information from various sources and then vomiting it out in front of the audience. I have learnt through my experience that the audience will somehow come to know whether the speaker is speaking genuinely from experience or he is just photo copying from books picked up from the best seller counter in a book shop. You simply can’t fool the audience !!!

I had once attended a seminar on retail management and the speaker was good enough to make us sleep with his so called the right ways to manage a retail operation after two hours of showing us his experience in speaking in front of an audience , he called upon the audience to share their experiences in the retail field, one middle aged man ran up the stage without even raising his hand and waiting to be called , when the mike was handed over to him his burst of enthusiasm somehow felt like we were being pricked by an injection . his energy was contagious , even though we could make out his lack of experience in holding a mike in front of an audience , which could be noticed by his over movement of hands and his fast mumbling sentences , to me he seemed liked someone I would wanna listen more about , the experience of the retail field and his excitement to share what he had learnt while being in the retail field somehow seemed interesting to me than the main keynote speaker. I learnt more in those 3 mins than in the previous two hours. Without any doubt the content or the knowledge that is being shared in the speech takes over the highest requirement of delivering a valuable and a memorable speech.