How skillful are you at public speaking?
Have you mastered the public speaking skills?
If you want to master public speaking, then you need master the public speaking skills. There are dozens of skills required in a talk. These skills are an essential part of the art of public speaking and are especially important in persuasive speaking. How do you measure up in just 10 of the skills?
The Top Ten Speech Preparation and Delivery Tips from Speechforyou.com
Should you decide to write your own wedding toast or persuasive speech, here are a number of ideas which may be useful in the preparation.
10 Simple Steps to Confident Speaking
Here is a very PPPerceptive and PPPractical set of tips. It will motivate an give you usful inforamtion
From Smart business
“There’s a wonderful feature of PowerPoint, you hit the B key and it blacks the screen in show mode, most people don’t know that,” says Hamburger, the president and CEO of DeVry Inc.
When DeVry, the higher education holding company for DeVry University, Ross University, Chamberlain College of Nursing and Becker Professional Review, hit a rough patch, Hamburger got to know that B button pretty well.
Maximize Your Presentation Skills: How to Speak, Look and Act on Your Way to the Top (Paperback)
by Ellen Kaye
“If you want to become a better speaker and communicator, this book will be an excellent guide. It is down to earth, easy to read, and very informative.” — Ken Blanchard, coauthor, The One Minute Manager”
Ellen Kaye educates, cultivates, and motivates so that her clients are far more capable, entertaining, and charismatic. I’ve seen it happen. I encourage you to read her book and benefit from her coaching.” — Nancy Lauterbach, owner, FIVE STAR Speakers & Trainers, and president, International Association of Speakers Bureaus
Book Description
Master the Perfect Presentation with Ease
The difference between a mediocre and magnificent career usually hinges on one simple thing: how you present yourself to management, clients, coworkers, and the public. In Maximize Your Presentation Skills, professional speech and image coach Ellen A. Kaye reveals how you can take your career to the next level by communicating like a seasoned business leader.Presented in an easy-to-use Q&A format, this indispensable guide answers more than 100 specific questions about public speaking, business etiquette, and leadership image, while dozens of valuable exercises help you hone your new career skills. This powerful and insightful book will help you master these crucial career skills and stand out from the crowd, whether you’re just starting out in the business world or have been running a company for years. If you don’t want to walk up the career ladder, but rather sprint, let the invaluable advice in Maximize Your Presentation Skills be your guide.
“No task is so humble that it does not offer an outlet for individuality.”
-William Feather
And there is no doubt that that applies just so well to public speaking. it is our chance to put our own individual stamp on the presentation – whether it be a short toast or a keynote to a roomfull of people. I see public speaking as a fantastic creative outlet. And, of course, a chance to build your image. Thanks, William Feather
You already have everything you need to be an effective, charismatic speaker. You do. You don’t need to adopt certain tricks or mannerisms. Nor do you need to speak with an artificially amped-up enthusiasm or energized voice. You do not need to move in this way or that. Or use props or PowerPoint. All of these suggestions, though well-meaning, keep us struck in the illusion that we need to be other than who we are right now, in this moment, in order to speak well in public.
Being able to communicate effectively through words has been a much-coveted secret for centuries. Take the blarney stone in Ireland, for example. The blarney stone is part of the Blarney castle in Ireland and it is tradition that those who kiss this stone are given the gift of the gab. If you want to have the gift of the gab but kissing the blarney stone is out of the question, maybe you could benefit from the 10 basics of communication and public speaking.
Alliteration is a particularly powerful presentation tool
Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
–Sir Ralph Richardson
By: Stephen D. Boyd
Delivering an effective presentation to 20 or to 200 people is difficult. Because listeners have better access to information since the internet became commonplace, audiences expect more content from speakers today. In addition, because of the entertainment slant of most media today, audiences want a presentation delivered with animation, humor, and pizzazz.
If you would rather spend your time preparing your content than reading a book on public speaking, this is an article especially for you! From my experiences in delivering over l500 speeches during the past 20 years, here is a quick guide to giving an effective and interesting presentation your very first time.
Just in case you are sitting at your computer with nothing to do –
nothing at all …
http://www.widro.com/throwpaper.html
More items like this, and others that you can use in your speeches and poweroints, at the Pivotal Just for Fun pages
The FAQ Book On Public Speaking
The authors, Eric Feng along with his colleagues Irene Ang and Kelvin Lim, has aimed to answer all of your most burning and nagging questions on public speaking. Straight to the point with no fluff…just stuff that works!
You can download a complimentary chapter of the book right now. Be relieved that your days of being fearful about speaking are coming to an end…
And when the book is launched look for the great bonuses you will receive when you buy your own copy.
There are so many ways a room and its set-up can affect your presentation. It is so important to make sure it works for you – your position, the audience’s position, the equipment, the sound, the heating …
Graham Jones used this gret example in his tip : Check the room layout for presentations
I was at a meeting the other day when a woman was invited to speak. She stayed where she was in the room to deliver her five minute talk. However, this meant that some people in the room couldn’t see her; others couldn’t hear her. As a result, about half her audience had five minutes of their time wasted. She also wasted much of her time because she didn’t get her message across to half the room.
Where you sit, where you look and how the audience feels is dependent upon room layout. You need to seriously consider all the options before you talk. Get the room layout right and your presentation will be much better. What this means is you should never accept the room as it is – unless it is perfect for you and your audience. Almost every room needs changing in some way so that the audience gains the best from you.
“Are you still doing speeches in the stone age?” This was the question a participant asked of a presenter at a recent conference I attended. The presenter had lugged along a box of transparency slides to show during his half-day seminar, and I admit, I was a little doubtful at first about the lack of modern technology. The presentation went well, overall, but could have clearly been enhanced by a good Microsoft PowerPoint, Lotus Freelance, or Aldus Persuasion program. Additionally, it would have been much easier to present for the speaker, and definitely lighter to carry on the airplane.
Later in the month, however, I got a different perspective when I spoke a participant in one of my seminars after the rest of the class had gone. She told me that when she first walked into the room, she was very disheartened to see a computer-generated image being shown on the screen. She confided that although she had enjoyed the presentation entirely, and that I had overcome her initial apprehension, her first reaction was:”Oh no! Not another PowerPoint Presentation”
This reaction is not unique, I’ve found. When talking to people in my seminars and social settings, the message I get is clear; People are tired of worn-out power point presentations! Does this mean we should jettison the technology and go back to the “stone age”, as one person put it, in giving our presentations? No more than we should ban television because of the likes of Jerry Springer and Temptation Island. The medium itself is not to blame, it is how that medium is used that falls short.
Unless your speech if absolutely fascinating, any “pause fillers” you add repetitiously, like um, or y’know, or OK will start to stand out.
They will capture the audience above your speech.
Start by listening to others – sports commentators, interviewees on television, anyone speaking publicly.
Listen for their fillers then you will learn to listen for your own.
Gestures can make or break a presentation. Normally, they flow naturally as a person expresses their thoughts, but if they are wooden or distracting, then they spoil whatever point the speaker is trying to make.
My latest free set of tips is about gestures – how to overcome the problems of being distracting or wooden, or when they just don’t work for you.
Visit the courses web page and click the button, and I’ll send you the first in the series.
Public speaking Success Tip
If the structure of your speech involves “Tell them what you are going to say, say it and tell them what you just said…” then the Introduction, Body and Conclusion are vital.
But just as crucial, are the links between those parts – the bridging. They provide another opportunity to remind the audience of your message, and to link the parts together seamlessly.
Often as you take breath to launch into the next point of your speech, the following utterance carries the weight of that breath or pause, and therefore is an ideal opportunity to reinforce your message.
