Objective of Keynote Speakers and Millennial Experts

Joseph Hayden
3 min readAug 28, 2019

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The goal of the millennial expert is to provide data and information that creates new understandings and ideas in the mind of the audience. If a speaker depends on tried-and-true approaches, the viewers process the information in an appreciative, yet passive fashion.

If the speaker engages the audience in new and disruptive ways, The mind setup of the audience goes from passive to active. For the information to go more readily the speaker needs to keep the audience in an active state during the speech and the audience retains the new information for a longer period after the event.

What follows the different ways for the best keynote speakers in the world provide their audiences with interesting information in a fresh and thought-provoking manner.

● The best keynote speakers don’t deliver content, but they deliver insights, in the form of a fascinating story that needs conventional wisdom.
● They consider complex issues and deflate and disassemble them into small, bite-sized plums that are easily understood. Through this, they can keep the audience involved and engaged throughout their speeches.
● Instead of using the all-to-common approach they encourage the audience to fill in the blank, the expert forces their brains to actively process information and provide output. It seems like a minor thing, but it shifts people from a passive mode to an active mode.
● The processing time of the human brain is 500 words per minute. Most of the best keynote speakers deliver about 250 to 300 words per minute, which avoid the audience from getting distracted by lights, cell phones, microphones or anything that can decrease their attention.
● The data provided by the best keynote speakers are listened to by the audience with the intent of critical reasoning, which makes them decide whether they agree or disagree.

When a story is being narrated, the audience hangs down its state of critical reasoning, which makes them more open to new ideas and concepts. Stories dictate multiple layers of meanings that go beyond absolute data, and data satisfies the need to have numerical proof. The stories need to activate attention and confinement in a great presentation.
● The experts facilitate communication by sharing emotions, insights and life stories and open themselves up to a more genuine, intimate dialogue.
● They never depend upon old jokes or stories as much as they engage the audience in a spontaneous conversation filled with laughs and mutual joy.
● Sometimes by acting formally, they engage the listener’s mind in a fresh, new way.
● They make people reevaluate their preconceived notions, their life models or their approach to things. This doesn’t mean they get them to throw away what works. It just means they get people to get out of their groove, re-frame their thinking and help them shake things up a bit.

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