The decker.com blog posted an article about the 10 best and 10 worst
communicators of 2010. US President Barack Obama is now considered a
poor communicator. This is what they wrote - do you agree?
Obama – Cadence, teleprompters and arrogance gets him here.
The President almost always has to be somewhere on the Top Ten list.
And President Obama has gone a long way, the wrong way, after landing
the #1 Best spot in 2006 and 2008. He has actually regressed as a
communicator since taking office.
Needing to give numerous ghost-written speeches a day has left Obama
disastrously reliant on the teleprompter – a tool he has not learned
to use effectively.
His vocal tone and facial expressions no longer convey the passion
and enthusiasm that rallied Americans to elect him in 2008.
Often, his style is professorial, his content purely informational,
and he’s adopted a sing-songy cadence that is only amusing when
spoofed by SNL.
It’s no accident that his slide as a communicator parallels his
slipping popularity.
Communications can carry, or bury, a presidency.
Read the article here:
http://decker.com/blog/2010/12/the-top-ten-best-and-worst-communicators-of-2010/