Introduction
Effective communication refers to an individual’s ability to convey information to other parties more effectively as well as efficiently. Leaders who have good verbal nonverbal cues and excellent written communication skills assist in sharing information with their followers. According to DuBrin (2015), effective communication is more than just sharing of information between parties but includes the leader’s understanding of the people’s emotions as well as intentions behind the information. The speakers convey the information clearly and concisely, connecting with the audience. In this paper, an analysis of change leaders Nate Garvis and Vernā Myers demonstrates effective communication.
Reasons for Selecting Leaders Myers and Garvis
The speech by Vernā Myers, a diversity advocate, keenly evaluates the subconscious attitudes people hold regarding outgroups and asks the audience to acknowledge their biases. After that, they will need to approach and not run away from the groups, which gives you an uncomfortable feeling. People need to identify what makes others toxic and opt to avoid them. Instead of avoiding them, one will need to escape from denial, move towards these “toxic” people and work towards ending the biasness. She suggests that people’s biases are dangerous and deadly (Myers, 2014). She gives an example of brutality against the black men where people ask the world to think about what can be done to end such acts.
Nate Garvi explores changes by examining people’s culture as the main constraining force towards achieving a better world. He asserts that the world does not require better laws and regulations; the fundamental aspect is changing the culture. The modern world is highly globalized, but culture has stagnated (Garvis 2010). For instance, he suggested that money moved from New York to other jurisdictions during the global crisis, but the laws were within the country’s boundaries. He clarifies that contemporary society does not require better laws; instead, it requires a better culture. He explains that people need to alter their habits, which implies carrying out tasks in ways they used to do. Garvis gives examples of health laws and suggests that one can make no law to make a person healthy but people’s habits. Society needs to start developing aspects, including intrinsic innovation. Furthermore, he suggests that no individual works better in worse neighborhoods, such as increased crime rates.
Speakers’ Message, Objective, and Vision
The leaders Myers and Garvis similarly are visionary leaders who advocate for a change in society. Myers gives the encounters of the black people in the society being brutally killed in the hands of police brutality. She describes that society comprises learned people who should offer protection to the black community. Myers tries to imagine a society that gives black men hope and is free from violence. She alludes that society has been playing on the pretence of good people while abandoning the social evils committed against the people of color. She gives an example of the changing society and allows the society towards gender equality. The women’s voice in the PA system in the plane is just an example of how a society can work towards overcoming biasness since it is not long their society was comprised of gender violence.
Beyond presence on the website, Garvis is the President of Naked Civics and Sr. Fellow at Babson College Social Innovation Lab. He studied law at the University of Oregon law school and has a B.A from the University of Minnesota. On the other hand, Verna Myers is a Harvard-trained lawyer and vice president of inclusion strategy at Netflix. The inclusion strategy focuses on devising and establishing different approaches that help integrate cultural diversity and equity for all. She is an author who has been cited in different publications.
How Leaders Communicate to Influence the Change
The leaders ought to be credible in the face of the audience. Myer speaks about violence in the black community in the United States. She asserts that most people are aware of the black community’s problems, yet they are in a state of self-denial. She uses the speech to drive people to change their attitudes and avoid instances of biasness. Garvis is equally well knowledgeable about the subject. He advocates for the society to adapt to new habits rather than sticking to old ways such as prescribing to jurisdictions of state laws, which are outdated with the phase of globalization.
Leaders Gear Their Message to the Audience
The speakers need to ensure that the message is well suited to the audience. Myer’s speech demonstrates that she got the audience’s attention in the venue. She uses metaphors as well as analogies to prevent the audience from getting bored hence making her message irrelevant. She wants her to convey that people can change their attitude towards the black community and treat them with dignity and self-respect. She has a vision of a better tomorrow where all the people, regardless of their race, gender, and religious affiliations, would treat each other with respect if we change to end the biasness. Myers’s message resonates with the time when people need to change their attitudes concerning society’s social issues, such as being biased towards certain elements.
Garvis uses metaphors and analogies in his speech by comparing the state laws to people’s habits. He suggests that as the world is globalized, there is a need to change habits instead of the laws. He tries to compare technological gadgets used in modern society as tours. For instance, he uses an example of plans and carefully makes people believe these itemized objects used in the modern era as “tours.” He jokingly says whiskey is a “tour” to bring a different of people’s thinking about the change that must make in society. The message of change is timely in the modern world that the people have to change to a new culture which is developing positive habits to drive it.
Speakers “Sell” the Audience the Benefits of Their Vision
Myers gives a detailed account of what is happening in society concerning the violence against the black community. She makes sure that the message is clear and precise to the audience to understand the magnitude. In her speech, she portrays some elements of emotions, especially while speaking about what is happening to the other people, which the society has vehemently opted to leave them.
Garvis tells the benefits of changing habits using rhetorical questions. He wonders why the nations spend a lot of time thinking about amending laws that are only limited to geographical jurisdictions. Garvis asserts that people and governments need to walk by the current trends. He gave an example about the elements of money shifting from one country to another due to globalization when financial crises occurred. As the world is becoming a global village, people should develop new positive habits to shape the future.
Speakers’ Use of Heavy Impact and Emotions Provoking Language
Myers uses emotions to drive his agenda to bring change to society. When she tries to explain how she felt proud as a woman on the plane PA system describes an amazing and happy moment for the women who have been recognized in society. Myers appears to have doubts about the confidence of the female driver. She agreed that she questioned the male driver’s confidence at no point. Such an idea raises a fundamental question regarding the minor things people try to ignore that make a huge difference. Her message is clear that the world needs to overcome gender prejudice as well as black men’s violence to attain a better society.
Garvis uses emotions to effectively pass his message on the people’s need to embrace change to make the world better. He carefully uses rhetorical questions with intentions to invoke the audience into thinking about the vision. The rhetorical questions are selected to ensure the audience remains engaged and does not lose the attention required to pass the intended message. He gives examples of the items that people in the modern era because of past inventions and designs.
Both speakers use stories effectively to give explanations about their agenda. The stories have real-life appeal to persuade the audience on what they claim in their speeches. Myers starts her speech with an anecdote to portray racial discrimination’s accurate picture and reality. She narrates a case of a police shooting involving blacks and relates how this brutality could affect anyone influential provided their skin color does not resemble that of the dominant group. Garvis gives a story about his growing-up experience, which narrates lessons people can learn about others who look different from them. The two authors use anecdotes effectively to their advantage to connect with the audience and support their claims.
Usage of Data to Support Their Claims
Garvis carefully uses data based on the current objects used in the current era to support his claim. For instance, he says that U.S. constitutions, which are rules and regulations and guide how people are ruled, are tools of human inventions. Garvis urges people to use the tools to create a common good. He gives information based on how people formulate laws that people use. Hence, in modern society, people are no lessors; they can invent things that can drive change and work towards improving the quality of life. Garvis effectively uses data and statistics to support his claims. Myers uses qualitative data based on the people’s personal feelings and experiences to back her claims. She asserts that the studies establish numerous people try to associate the good things with the white people while the negative aspects are associated with black people. Myers’s usage of data is effective in providing evidence to her arguments.
Conclusion and Reflection
This presentation skills study has significantly changed my way of thinking. I have learned that anecdotes and statistics are crucial in getting one’s attention and sounding credible. The speakers have utilized stories of real-life occurrences to persuade and create emotions that appeal to the audience. I intend to learn how to use statistics, emotional appeal, and relevance to understand and connect with the audience. Myer and Garvis effectively communicated the need for people to change the way we live, believe, and generate a vision for a better future. Myer’s presentations were the best because they typically connected me to the stereotypes that society connects. Both speakers, Myers and Garvis, clearly did their research on the topic and connected it to the daily people’s activities. They have demonstrated themselves as visionary change objects in society.
References
Dubrin, A. J. (2015). Leadership: Research findings, practice, and skills. Cengage Learning.
Garvis N. (2010). Change our culture, change our world. Web.
Myers V. (2014). How to overcome our biases? Walk boldly toward them. Web.