Public speaking is counterintuitive. That is to say what your intuition tells you is a good thing is not always the truth. And what your instincts say not to do is often the best thing to do. Your natural inner voice when you find out you have to do a public presentation is to write it all out and read it to the audience word for word.
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This kind of public speaking can be dangerous and more than a little scary to learn to do. But because you had fun and our audience had fun, that presentation is full of “snap” and is 100% more successful. And that makes it worth taking the risks to learn this kind of public speaking.
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We all have our little vocal style that makes us unique. How often have you heard someone make a remark about how interesting it is the way you phrase things? We learn the way we speak from our parents and our mentors growing up. So if you ever listened to yourself speak, you would recognize the expressions you learned from your childhood.
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Public Speaking Means Never Saying “I’m Sorry” In the romantic movie, “Love Story”, a phrase about love was introduced that went, “Love means never having to say you’re sorry”. And while anyone who is married knows how untrue that is, we could easily adapt that concept to the world of public speaking. While you may from time to time have an occasion that you feel you should express regret to your audience, it’s a hard and fast rule of public speaking to never apologize to your audience. The psychological principle behind this rule is solid and it’s not based...
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Many times local civic organizations look for experts from various businesses to come and give a presentation about your area of skill. The Elks, Rotary, and Kiwanis are just a few who are always on the look for good public speakers to address their groups. So if you get a chance to speak to these groups, it’s easy to see these as tremendous business opportunities for marketing.
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One way to view making your living as a public speaker is to see it as a variation on the profession of a professional author. When you think about it, a writer of informative books takes an area of expertise that they have excelled at and they used their skills in writing to lay that out for people who need that knowledge. And when people buy that knowledge, it’s a fair exchange to pay that person for that valuable knowledge and allow that author to continue writing.
Read MoreIf you pick up any self-help guide on how to be effective as a public speaker, one of the golden rules is to open with a joke. But guess what? That is not actually a hard and fast rule. Humor is the type of thing that works just as well about a minute into your presentation, halfway through or just about anywhere that you feel you are losing your audience.
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A public speaking situation can be intimidating for even the most seasoned of public speaking professionals. That is because when speaking to a live audience, you really never know what is going to happen.
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Maybe one of the most common occurrences that happens in a public speaking situation is to see someone in the audience go to sleep on you. When you are the one going to sleep, you just hope the speaker doesn’t notice. But when you are the speaker, you know that you do notice and you wonder what you are doing wrong.
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