Art Of Great Speaking

Your delivery and everything else associated with it – your gestures, your tone, appearance, word, pauses etc should be directed toward your listeners.  Your course is directed by the audience at all times.

A good delivery is good manners. When you keep your audience in mind your personality naturally improves. This is true in public speaking and in conversation as people are people in groups or individually.

Also when preparing your speech you will keep the audience in mind. Your speech will be different depending on your audience – are they business people or a literary club.

Ask yourself: Why did they invite me? What do they want to hear from me? What do I know of their organization? Which anecdotes will please them most?

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Audience do not pay attention by themselves, the speaker must spark and maintain their interest. There are many reasons that cause an audience’s attention to wander.

Monotony is one of them. When the audience’s interest is obviously waning, their attention can be restored by an attenton “getter.” These are rhetorical questions the speaker asks such as “What are you going to do about it?” The intention is that the speaker will answer the question themselves.

Of course you should be prepared for an unexpected answer from one of the listeners. If it is correct the speaker should express his gratitude. If it is incorrect, this gives rise to the opportunity to repeat the highlights from the speech.

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 A thorough knowledge of your subject matter is required for effective public speaking. You may be a master of delivery, have top class command of the English language and pleasing vocal tones, but despite all of these fine attributes your speech may still be a flop if you are not fully up to speed about your subject.

A lack of knowledge of the subject has wrecked more public speakers’ aspirations than any other reason.

Listeners can quickly sense when your grasp of the subject is minimal or superficial. The speech will go over like a lead balloon. Conversely, a person that is considered an expert in their field and is thoroughly conversant in his subject may still be very much in demand despite not being considered a top class speaker.

Your primary source of material for your speech will be your lifetime experience at home, at work etc.  Be keenly alert, pay attention to details and be impressed by all you see and this will vastly swell your bank of knowledge and add more conversational material to your repertoire.

After that there is the internet, books, television, conversations. Make sure you have a variety of sources and opinions so that you do not become too lopsided. Note your experiences and observations down in a notebook. You will then have them to hand when you start pulling your speech together.

Speakers are readers and never stop learning so that they can deliver to their audiences a content rich speech.

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Note, an interesting and informative speech may be highly entertaining without being humorous. You will be speaking because you are informed about your subject and it is interesting to your listeners. If they wanted to be entertained they would have invited an entertainer. When starting in public speaking plan how to spice your speech. Radio and television performers, with few exceptions follow their scripts so closely they would not even “ad lib” a sneeze.

Make sure the story or humorous anecdote fits the speech and the occasion. Keep it brief use only the words neceesay to tell the story. You don’t want it to drag. Try to tell fresh jokes rather than old “standing” jokes. 

Also don’t introduce you joke by saying that you are going to tell a joke and the audience will die laughing at it. You will find that at least some in the audience will prefer to “choke to death” rather than laugh.

Don’t milk the story or joke for more than one laugh. Also ensure you remember the punchline. You do not want to recount every last detail until the end when he asks “how did that go?”  

Remember, keep the humor close to the subject. 

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When writing your speech, keep in mind the organisation and the type of audience you will be speaking to. There are many kinds of audiences that are in any community.

When you are a popular speaker you could address professional people or literary groups one day and the next day it could be a sports banquet, scout rally, or a sales convention.  The speech that is to be delivered and the way it is to be presented will need to be modified for the different audience.

Ask the following questions of yourself and/or the organisation:

Why did they invite me?
What do they want to hear from me?
What do I know of their organisation?
Which anecdotes will please them most?
Would a personal experience appeal to the audience?
Have they suggested a subject?
Do they have a particular interest in the topic?
Who is going to introduce you and what would work best as an impromptu remark to begin with?
If a return engagement – was there anything interesting that happened at the previous engagement?

Finally decide on whether your talk should serious or funny, light or heavy?

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