OH! Magazine - Australian Version November 2018 | Page 27

EMBRACE THE POWER OF
PUBLIC SPEAKING
Kazuhiro Hosoya shares these tips to help you master the art of public speaking.
ublic speaking coach Kazuhiro
Hosoya discovered his passion for
engaging presentations 10 years ago,
when he stood on stage in front of 5,000
people at a Japanese business leaders’
conference and bored his audience to
sleep!
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Failing to connect with his audience that
day could have stopped him in his tracks.
Instead, he got curious about the secrets
to powerful public speaking, an art he
perfected and now teaches in a program
called Right Voice For You.
‘Back then, I thought it was alright to
present without showing my true emotions
or feelings,’ Hosoya says. ‘I wanted to
express myself in a way that people would
be fascinated with my story, but I had not
yet learned how to speak from my heart.
Today, I know this to be the most powerful
tool for public speaking.’
Hosoya coaches people on how to
cultivate their unique and authentic voice
first so they can speak publicly from their
heart with confidence and ease. Here are
his top seven tips:
fighting against the audience’s invisible
judgement and find a way to enjoy
spending time with them instead. The
majority are there to learn from you and
receive whatever message you have.
Tip 3. When judgement arises, allow it to be
there
If you do feel judged by anyone,
understand that you’re not there to be
liked but to share your message. Allow
that person (or people) to be in judgement,
knowing that nobody (including you) is
perfect and you don’t have to be liked or
right all the time. In fact, two points of
view can exist about one topic.
Tip 4. Get joyful about being judged
Take it one step further and figure out
how to actually enjoy and use the
judgement of others for your own benefit.
If you believe in your message, you can
stand in the truth of who you are and start
to enjoy, almost welcome, the experience
of being judged. There is energy in
judgement you can transmute to
communicate your message more
powerfully.
Tip 1. Lower the barrier
People create barriers to public speaking
to protect themselves from having to feel
vulnerable. When you lower the barriers
by removing your need to be perfect and
letting go of your fear around being
judged, you are freer to be yourself
speaking in front of an audience.
Tip 2. Stop interpreting your audience as
the enemy
The audience is not your enemy. Stop
Tip 5. Use language, words and examples
that the audience will understand
Your message is only as powerful as a
person’s ability to receive it. Use stories,
metaphors or popular media references
that are culturally relevant to your
Tip 6. Invite people into your message
Instead of telling people what to do, or
how to do it, it can be more engaging to
extend your audience an invitation to
consider another way of being in the
world. By asking the question ‘what if you
could live like this…’ It’s always about
extending a possibility to them they can
try on, or not.
Tip 7. Remember to smile
Always have a positive attitude and
demeanor in front of your audience.
‘Great public speaking is about great self-
expression. Before presenting from the
heart, the audience was very cold and
unresponsive. Now, I generate a lot more
energy in a room, people are really
listening and when I speak from the
heart, it is me and I am truly living. To
move an audience, the first step is
learning how to be in allowance of who
you really are and that is a beautiful thing
to witness.’
Kazuhiro Hosoya
Kazuhiro is a business and speaking
coach, counsellor and hypnotherapist. He
is also a certified Right Voice For You
facilitator, a special program from Access
Consciousness, helping open his clients
up to endless possibilities in business,
careers and relationships.
audience so your message is able to land.
If you’re presenting in Japan, refer to
sumos, green tea ceremonies and harakiri.
If you’re presenting to mums in Australia
then you should tell different stories.
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