Klar tale

Hva er en god tale? Et spørsmål med tusenvis av svar.

Derfor blir det en føljetong på denne bloggen. Små drypp med synspunkter på hva en god tale er. Alle kan vi bli bedre talere, og alle har vi nytte av å tale godt fra tid til annen.

Her er to råd fra en dyktig britisk kommunikasjons-ekspert, Roger Darlington:

** Beware of speaking for too long. The British aristocrat Lord Brabazon once said: "If you cannot say what you have to say in twenty minutes, you should go away and write a book about it". Abraham Lincoln's address at Gettysburg in 1863 lasted a mere two minutes, but it is one of the most memorable speeches ever delivered. Nobody ever complains that a speech is too short - and there's usually a question and answer session to use up the rest of the time and to make further points.


** KISS (Keep it simple, stupid). Don't try to impress with over-complicated terminology. For example: when he was Labour's Shadow Chancellor, Gordon Brown famously praised "neoclassical endogenous growth theory and a symbiotic relationship between investment in people and infrastructure" (1996). In the introduction to his compilation "Speeches That Changed The World", Simon Sebag Montefiore states: "As a rule, simplicity of language marks superb speeechmaking".