A Critical Analysis Of Les Brown's Explanation Of A Speech

Often times, people don’t pay much attention to the introduction of a speech. However, the introduction is one of the most important parts of a speech as it may be difficult to get the audience’s attention afterward. Les Brown was able to grab the attention of the audience from the beginning of the speech. How Brown got the attention of his audience was through using an attention grabber. His attention grabber was in the form of a joke that got the audience laughing and chuckling within the first couple seconds of his speech. Also, Brown had a very strong and commanding voice when he spoke and he used this to his advantage to capture and maintain the audiences attention for the entire duration of his speech. Additionally, Brown spoke with a …show more content…
Brown 's speech was appropriate as it stayed on par with the motivational theme as well as his dress and conduct matched those of the audience. Apparently, Brown had done his research and realized the type of audience he had and what the main purpose was for them coming there, and that is motivation. Brown 's evidence of preparation for the diverse audience came out with his personal statement when he first clarified to the audience that he is not asking that they believe or agree with anything that he says, but rather he is just sharing ideas with them that is up to them to use if they find it useful or discard it if it is not. From that statement alone Brown indicated he was awear that his audience my not agree with him but still that he hopes the information will be useful. This was an important strategy because I think it prepared the audience especially the skeptics to fully listen and be prepared because they have the assurance somewhat that his intent is not to persuade them or that his way is right; Hence, I think Brown 's statement said to the audience that they have the luxury of being entitled to form their own judgment of aspects of his speech that they don’t agree with but at the same time they can use the idea of whatever positivite they gain to make their life