Art Of Great Speaking

 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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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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Public speaking, more than any other human activity is learned by doing and improved by practice.  Taking every opportunity to speak in public will far outweigh any instruction in developing the skills and confidence. The way to develop self-confidence in public speaking is simply by speaking in public plus careful preparation.

Any person can become successful in public speaking by being natural, practicing and following certain rules. By working at it a speaker will become better. A little courage is needed to get started and ensure the talents are not lost to the world. The forest would lack music if only the birds that sang were those that were the best.

For a novice swimmer, the first swimming lesson requires summoning enough confidence to “give it a go.” There is many thousands of word written, about swimming or diving techniques. These mean nothing to the novice until the swimmer discovers that it is not the water they fear but themselves and he takes the plunge. The novice speaker is in the same situation, they will lack confidence until they realise that it is not the audience they fear but themselves.   

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