Use of Lecterns, Pulpits or Podiums as a Speaker

Use of Lecturns, Pulpits or Podiums as a Speaker

Lectern
oh well

Hopefully some of these thoughts will be useful to you.

lecterns, podiums pulpits are only tools

and generally tools of the past

people use their stage areas and have for many years.

Most speakers no longer use them

ministers do, 

preachers do

some politicians do

some professors do

first thing that is taught in stand up comedy classes is

how to take control by taking the mic out of the stand

and moving the mike stand out of the away so you

can stand there and speech or do your routine.

Watch the debates between 

Clinton and Bush

or Clinton and Dole.

You have some attachment for a lectern pulpit or podium.

Please do not let it hamper you.  Use it when it makes sense and truly adds to your presentation.

Just speaking rarely works with today's audiences.

Showing them through gestures, position, body movements. location.

If it is a formal dinner or a church then the FRONT TABLE or the Pulpit

usually are required.

The members of 1779 are beginners

They have been only exposed to either

a. poor use of a lectern pulpit or podium

b. mostly bad use of not using them

Lynyetta is getting better with her use of movement for a purpose or reason.

You seem to equate the use of a lectern, podium or pulpit to IMPORTANT messages.

Lincoln use them, didn't use them

Socrates sat or laid on the ground when he taught.

Karen I didn't see you effectively using the lecturn yesterday.  That is why I took the short video I tried to share with you last night.

You danced around it.

You didn't stand behind it.

For many years I used a table to lay my notes and/or props on. rather than a lectern, pulpit or podium.

Lecterns, pulpits, podiums HIDE hand and arm gestures, especially for short people,

which is one of the reasons many Toastmasters stopped using them.

I was speaking in a family room to a group of professional speakers sitting and standing around listening to me.

How would a lectern, pulpit or podium have helped me here?

how would a lectern, pulpit or podium have helped me here?