Posts Tagged ‘tips’
Saturday, August 27th, 2011
Here are 10 ideas on how you can develop more interesting stories for including in your public speaking or other oral communication occasions. These will help you whether speaking one on one, in meetings, ingroups or more formal events.
1. Listen to a speaker, such as a teacher, minister, social worker, politician, or any other speaker whose purpose is to persuade an audience for some purpose. As you listen, take notes on the illustrations the speaker uses. Were they interesting? The kind that really stimulated the audience mentally and/or emotionally? If so, why? If not, why not?
2. If the speaker you heard did not use illustrations find or recall at least one human interest illustration he could have used to support the theme of his speech. Tell this story either to a real or imagined audience and state the point it supports.
3. Listen to another speaker. Compare and contrast the illustrations this speaker used with those used by the other speaker. Always analyze why a story is weak or effective.
4. In a section of your speech notebook keep notations, or clippings of human interest illustrations on a theme of your choice.
5. Write in your own words a human interest illustration from history, biography, literature, a magazine, the news, or any other reading source.
6. Do the same from any oral source, such as other speakers, television, radio, and so on.
7. List the themes of a few stories which you think have been told so often they have become trite. Choose one of those themes and see if you can find a story which will not be trite to support it.
8. Tell the most interesting story you ever heard or read. Take only from two to five minutes for this (depending upon the amount of time the instructor has for it.) Keep the story moving! Put in interesting details but don’t waste words. Try for a dramatic effect upon the audience.
9. Study a few daily newspapers. Select several human interest illustrations. For each illustration write the theme it would support best. Choose the most effective illustration you found and tell it to other peopl. After others have done likewise frankly discuss the merits or weaknesses of any illustration used.
10. Read a biography of some person you admire. Relate orally the incident from this biography which impressed you most vividly.
If you do want to improve public speaking and reap the benefits that effective public speakers receive, you can get started straightaway with our free e-course on effecive public speaking by entering your details in the box to the right.
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
The habits of enthusiasm can be developed for use in being more persuasive when public speaking.
Here are some ways to develop them:
1. By closely observing human nature and trying to determine what makes people ‘”tick.”
2. Liking people, and showing an active interest in them at all times.
3. Being active with ideas and people to a point where one has no time for aloofness or indifference.
4. By having a positive, optimistic nature and attitude.
5. By being super-earnest in everything, but pleasant and happy at the same time.
6. By putting the whole heart, mind, body, and spirit into everything one does.
7. Getting the “I-can” attitude. Thoughts of quitting or indul¬gences in self-pity kill enthusiasm.
8. By not permitting any type of criticism to dampen the spirits.
9. By thinking about your subject, and living it, until a burn¬ing, almost obsessional desire to communicate your ideas and feelings is acquired.
10. By being in love with every minute of life and living it completely.
Enthusiasm’s worst enemies are probably pessimism, negative criticism, fear and indifference. An enthusiastic speaker avoids these characteristics. Without hesitation or apologizing for being alive, he plunges right into his speech, so desirous of communicating an idea, nothing can stop him! Almost obsessed with an idea, his eyes gleam as he speaks, his voice and body reflect his spirit. He doesn’t think about how he stands,or where he puts his hands. He’s not worried about how he breathes, or if he breathes. Communicating is all important.
Not that knowing how to stand, or breathe, or how to use the body is worthless, but a person, while speaking, should not give those minor values conscious attention. His whole mind, heart, and soul should be flaming with the great idea he desires to communicate.
Then he’ll be somewhat like a woman who jumps up on a chair when a mouse appears. In her case safety is the big idea. Instantly it becomes an obsession with her. And she’s not concerned about how she got on that chair. She probably couldn’t tell if she was asked.
Similarly, an enthusiastic speaker is not concerned about how he communicates his ideas. His fervent desire is to have his ideas and feelings accepted. And when this is his main purpose he speaks far more persuasively than when he tries to make “fancy” speeches with graceful gestures and a lovely voice.
As with all thing in public speaking the enthusiasm needs to genuine to be effective.
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
Public speaking gestures are important in conveying your message effectively. What does your body language say about you?
There’s no 1 certain way to make any gesture. However UP and OUT (within reason obviously) are helpful terms to remember and use in connection with gestures. Actions that are up and out can be easily observed by an audience. Such actions are also usually far more positive and powerful than modest unsure motions made close to a speaker’s body. Then, also, when hands and arms move on a high sphere they are closer to the speaker’s facial area, which usually enables an audience to obtain a unified emotional impact from the hands, arms and face.
Whenever possible ideas ought to be illustrated with bodily action. For instance, whenever a speaker tells about the huge bass which got away he can picture the idea with facial and bodily action – if he can reach that far!
1 need not be absolutely exact when doing illustrative movements. They may be portrayed just as accurately as 1 readily can. Obviously the pace of the movement is going to be governed from the feeling that the idea encourages. “The train crawled around a bend,” will incite a far different sort of movement than, “A jet crashed in to the building!” As with all effective bodily action this is simply a case of talking naturally and openly with the muscles.
Healthy, successful gestures are not planned, even though at the beginning a student speaker might have to force his body and face, along with his tongue in order to tell his story. Nevertheless he needs to encourage body language right up until it becomes so natural he won’t need to give it second thought.
A presenter who refuses or fails to use natural gestures is similar to a boxer with a hand behind his back, or like somebody speaking through a television set that has no image. Such a speaker will be lacking a visual appeal which will certainly take away from his ability to persuade.
William Shakespeare reminds us, “Action is eloquence; the eyes of the ignorant are more learned than their ears.”
Perhaps the same could be said in all honesty regarding the very clever listeners in an audience, too.
And Demosthenes, who has a high ranking amongst speakers of all time stated, “The first qualification of the orator is action; the second, action; and the third, action.”
Act! – but as naturally when you would play your best game.
I hope you have enjoyed this series on public speaking gestures. If you want to know how you can improve your public speaking to be more effective and confident please fill in your details in the space on the above right.
Friday, July 25th, 2008
when we will see another Olympic gold medal in the WWE?
cannot counter tna wwe Kurt Angle is an Olympic wrestler to another.
Them not necessarily. Kurt Angle is a loss for the WWE, it was a fantastic technical wrestler. But is not the end of the world. WWE does not need another Olympic gold medalist who already have a lot of talent. They're just not used properly.
|
Hitachi NR83A2 Round Head 2-inch to 3-1/4-inch Framing Nailer
$280.00
The Hitachi NR83A2 3-1/4-Inch Round-Head Framing Nailer offers great performance in a compact, lightweight package. The NR83A2 is best used for floor and wall framing, truss buildup, window buildup, construction of subflooring and roof decking, wall sheathing, and mobile home and modular home construction. With tool-less depth-of-drive adjustment and durable construction, the NR83A2 is built for a…
|
|
Wide Angle Peephole Door Viewer Door Scope 2- 3/8 Silver ABS
$15.95
These Door Scope Super Wide Angle Peepholes are made of space age revolutionary material. They have optical lenses and the highest quality prisms on the market today. Mounted on an entrance door, it allows you to have a clear view of the outside of your door even if stand 7 feet away from your door. This has the clearest view for its kind….
|
|
Wooster Brush Q4119-2 Golden Glo Angle Sash Paintbrush, 2-Inch
$4.21
Wooster, Golden Glo, 2″, Nylon/Polyester Angle Sash Brush, Has Angle Design & Full Sized Sash Handle For Exact Trimming, For Use In All Paints On Surfaces Like Windows, Door Frames, Moldings, Casings, & Soffits….
|
|
Denco Easy Grip Professional Nail Clipper – Lifetime Warranty
$17.95
Ready to use, right out of the package. No twisting or flipping the handle to “open” your clipper and, more importantly, no more painful bending or turning your wrist to get the right angle for cutting each nail. Lifetime warranty and 100 %satisfaction guarantee!…
|
|
|
