One of his "Bencivenga Bullets" has a great article titled...
The "Borden Formula" for Giving a Great Speech ...or Writing a Potent Headline
It's written for public speakers and salesletter writers, but it's got some cool information for anyone who speaks in front of people and wants to learn a way to speak and grab people's their attention.
In the article he gives 4 things that Richard C. Borden taught people to imagine when they were speaking.
(Borden was Administrative Chairman of the Department of Public Speaking at New York University. He was also one of the nation's most popular speakers and sales trainers, as well as an author of books on selling and public speaking.)
Borden taught people 4 emotional outbursts that he to imagine the audience saying whenever you speak.
Here are the 4 emotional outburts:
- "Ho hum!"
- "Why bring that up!"
- "For instance?"
- "So what?"
Don't miss the part at the end of the article about the "shake-me-awake-at-three-a.m." test for powerful headlines.
See the article here:
The "Borden Formula" for Giving a Great Speech ...or Writing a Potent Headline
(I updated this link. It was broken. Now it works!)
P.S. Like I mentioned already... I believe powerful preaching has to come from the anointing of the Holy Spirit to have lasting, life-changing affect, but I believe that we need to learn all we can about speaking in exciting and powerful ways.
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