Creating Group Rapport

Public speaking is hard. I remember starting out in this business, a business which necessitates a fair amount of public speaking, and before each big seminar I'd give, I would have huge anxiety for over a week prior to the event. My family would avoid me, even the dog knew not to interrupt me. Gearing up for events was chaotic and intense and only lead to a huge let down after the event (despite the event's success) because it was a huge release of energy.

As I became more comfortable with public speaking and more assured of my affect with students, I became aware of techniques that I could use to get my students/audience to become more connected and cohesive right from the start.

One that I use very regularly will help you form a group bond and a group rapport. I imagine a shovel, a big snow shovel, a great big wide thing, as wide as the audience, and it sits in the back of the room. The shovel starts just over the top of the heads of my audience and then it curves back around.

What I imagine that I am drawing energy through my feet, and I project it out of my eyes, so it goes like a blanket, over the top of everyone's head, all the way back to the snow shovel.

The show shovel catches the energy blanket and whips it around just as it comes back to my feet hitting a box situated in front of me. This box is my filter.

I'm bringing in everybody's energy, and this filter eliminates the negativity. I never want to take on all that myself, unfiltered. So I see the energy come back, and as see it coming to the box. As it hit the box, it becomes completely clear.

Then energy then comes right up through my feet and out through my eyes to the back of the room where the shovel is, and back up. That's how it starts.

This will start out slowly and become increasingly faster until I can step aside and watch this process work itself through.

This energy has a life of its own. As I give presentations I let this go the whole time.

When I do trainings of 250, 300 people or more, it bonds the group like nothing I have ever seen.

Could this bonding be the language I use? Could it be the suggestions I make? Could it be that we're all working together and having fun? Yes. Absolutely. It could be all those things. But I think this adds dramatically to what I do.

When you're working with a big group, consider this to be another construct you can use.

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Kenrick Cleveland teaches techniques to earn the business of wealthy prospects using persuasion. He runs public and private seminars and offers home study courses and coaching programs in persuasion techniques.

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