When T. Harv Eker Speaks, This Is What He Does

Sunday, September 26th, 2010 at 7:22 am

When I first started out as a speaker, I have to admit. I sucked.

I read the books and went for the seminars to learn how to be better, how to be good enough to get paid.

But it wasn’t until a one to one coaching for 20 mins with T. Harv Eker that helped me really GET it.

Harv is possibly one of the most captivating speakers and seminar pitchman today. I’ve watched seminar pitches since 2005 and I’m passionate about it.

Harv goes beyond the persuasion models and order of elements of influence. He is a performer through and through.

In our one to one coaching, he had me on the stage delivering my pitch and throughout the presentation, he barked at me.

He would suddenly stand up and give a demo of what I should have done… in the middle of my presentation… then tell me to continue from where he coached.

Every 2 sentences, he shouts:

“Boring!”

And that really sunk in.

There is no such thing as a bad speaker. The opposite of a good speaker is a boring speaker.

As a speaker, there are really simple tools that you can use to be less boring.

Just three to start with.

1. Volume

2. Rate of speech

3. Movement

Vary these 3 and you will find yourself becoming more interesting to the group.

The moment you find yourself in a pattern, you sense your audience getting into the trance you don’t want, vary one of the 3 as stated above.

When T Harv Eker speaks, this is what he does….