Establishing Credibility (1) (1) PDF

Preview

Summary

The key factors in establishing credibility when giving a speech to different types of audience....

Description

1 Establishing Credibility The audience's view of the speaker's skill and personality is often closely tied to credibility. Credibility could also relate to the speaker's reputation. Character, integrity, knowledge, skill, and relationships all contribute to credibility (Lucas & Stob, 2004). Trust, like, and respect your audience to develop credibility. One must consider their communication as a means of helping them. Demonstrate how your suggestion will assist them in solving an issue or accomplishing something important to them. One always needs to find a point of agreement with the audience (Dena, 2017). Making a case for shared values and norms is among the things that help establish credibility. Start by identifying with your audience, even when you desire or especially wants them to adjust their beliefs. Demonstrate how the adjustments you need them to adopt will validate or enhance existing values. Statistics and data, well-known figures, and personal experiences convey varying degrees of trustworthiness to different audiences. Another may question facts that one audience finds convincing. To gain credibility, one must be the personification of their idea. All about you and how you show yourself will boost overall credibility if it supports what you're expressing. The audience can know whether the presenter has integrity, is competent, is contextually sensitive, and has excellent judgment if credibility is established in the speech. It will as well make the person speaking more liked (Graves, 2018). When your audience can relate these links with credibility, there is a high chance they will trust the speaker and want to form a relationship with them. A presenter can use credibility to inspire their audience. Motivating others to do anything is a challenging endeavour, and it often takes some rational or strong argument for it to be successful.

2 References Dena, L. K. (2017). Leadership influence: building respect and credibility in church leadership to transform members' lives. Graves, D. (2018). Understanding the promise and limits of automated fact-checking. Lucas, S., & Stob, P. (2004). The art of public speaking (p. 382). New York: McGraw-Hill....