Cavett Robert - Build A Better You - National Speakers Association 1988

Описание: Cavett Robert (1907-1997)
We live in a society where the average individual will change professions three or four times in their lifetime. I don't mean jobs, I mean professions. This is nothing new; people have done it for years. But, what about starting a profession that almost no one is practicing? What if there is no model to follow? What if you are pioneering a career in a field that doesn't even exist? Cavett Robert is a perfect example of an individual who changed professions several times in life and went on to great success. He is best known for the one he chose after age 60, a time when most people are looking forward to retirement!

Cavett was born in 1907 in Starkville, Mississippi. He attended Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina and then the University of Mississippi, in Oxford,
Mississippi. He graduated from “Ole' Miss” in 1929 with a BA and a BS degree and after graduating, taught school in Prairie Point, MS. He taught first through twelfth grades in this small town one-room schoolhouse. During the summer, he got a job installing a gas line through the area (change #1). After several months, his brother-in-law who had just been appointed President of Washington and Lee University encouraged Cavett to come to Virginia and study Law (change #2). This would become his profession for the next 30 years. After passing the Bar exam, he was appointed judge in Lexington, Virginia. Following that, he worked in New York City with a law firm and then with District Attorney (future Governor and Presidential candidate) Thomas Dewey, investigating gangsters and racketeering in the famous “Racket Investigations.”

The National Speaker's Association was to promote high ethical and professional standards and education of its members. It was never to exist for selfish, self-promotion of its members. It was hoped that the public would recognize a member of NSA as one who adhered to the high standards of the profession. He built the concept with the mission, “There is nothing that can’t be accomplished when the right people are swept up in a worthy cause, divorced from who gets credit for what!”

In 1966, he decided speaking was a profession that needed more members. Instead of worrying that he would create competition, he contacted the few working professional speakers—only 3% of organizations hired professional speakers—and advised them, “Don't worry about how we divide up the pie, there is enough for everybody. Let's just build a bigger pie!”

Robert tirelessly encouraged people with potential—and some on one else thought had potential—to join this new speaking industry. This encouragement led to the creation of the National Speaker’s Association (NSA), and the speaker industry we have today. As part of establishing NSA, Robert set some firm guidelines for how a professional speaker should behave, including the following.

To remind and maintain those standards, yesterday was NSA’s 4th Annual Spirit of NSA Day. Although the official day was November 14, NSA's behavioral standards are good ones that all professional speakers, and those who wish to become professional speakers would be wise to follow. As is the legacy of Cavett Robert, without whom, professional speaking would likely not exist.

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NSA-Arizona, The Voice of Professional Speakers in Arizona, offers its members and its partners the experience of a rich, year-round training program designed to develop powerful, focused, expert speakers who deliver to their niche audiences the best contemporary solutions on a variety of interesting topics, and at a price point for every program budget.

NSA-Arizona is an award-winning chapter of the National Speakers Association, with Council of Peers Award for Excellence (CPAE) to nearly a dozen of our current members. Another dozen of our members have earned the coveted Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation. Five of our members are Past National Presidents of NSA. Ours is a sharing chapter with an impressive history because our 160 members learn from the best.

Our Legacy Statement NSA-Arizona members share a heritage: Ours was the home chapter for the greatest speaking professional in the world–Cavett Robert (1907-1997)–Founder and Leader of the 3800-member strong National Speakers Association, the respected national organization of expert professionals who deliver messages to order.

Our Lasting Legacy from Cavett is our commitment to become more involved with other professional speakers, so we also can be “Great Encouragers”–just like Cavett. Our members revel in Cavett’s stunning innovation in our business — “Share what works – Make the pie bigger!” Our chapter is a sharing chapter–just like Cavett.

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