Don’t apologise People generally only notice your mistakes when you draw attention to them. Don’t tell people you’ve forgotten something…they don’t know that. Just take a pause, have a drink of water, and move on. Speak slower
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Here are seven basic rules to help you speak well, confidently and without giving a hint of the nerves you may be feeling: Don’t apologise People generally only notice your mistakes when you draw attention to them. Don’t tell people you’ve forgotten something…they don’t know that. Just take a pause, have a drink of water, and move on.
You’re almost certainly speaking too fast. Slow down a bit. And a little bit more. Perfect.
If you’re projecting your voice to the back of the room then you know everyone can hear you. If people need to strain even the tiniest bit to hear you, then you’ll lose them immediately.
The pause is one of the most effective tools in public speaking. It emphasises the point you just made. It allows your audience to digest information. It grabs people’s attention. It allows you to compose yourself and remember what’s next. Don’t be afraid to pause…even for 10 or 15 seconds – it feels a lot longer to you than to your audience.
Don’t look at the slides behind you – have a copy in front of you so that you never turn your back.
Don’t look at the floor. Don’t look at the walls. Try and take the time to make eye contact with every person in the room. Even if you only make eye contact once, an audience member will come away feeling as though you spoke directly to them.
They’re there because they want to learn and want to be entertained. Even if they were forced to attend, they still want to get the most out of it. They want you to succeed. They are on your side…even if it doesn’t feel like it.
We often only speak to an audience during the most important and stressful events of our life. So, take the time to practice in situations where there is less pressure: practice on groups of co-workers or your cats, join Toastmasters, or get one-to-one coaching from a professional. I can’t emphasise how important practice is. Putting myself in a public speaking scenario weekly has made a huge difference to my own ability and my own confidence. Within a few short years I’ve gone from a petrified speaker to a paid, profe ssional public speaker. I love it. I don’t lose sleep at night. And I can handle it when things go wrong. Practice is the key to being able to cope when there is unexpected chaos. If you know what you’re doing, then a ‘problem’ won’t throw you. And knowing you can cope does wonders for your confidence. For example, I was recently at an event waiting to be introduced. I took a sip of water and…oh, no…spilled water all down the front of my trousers. Now five years ago the notion of getting up in front of a room full of strangers with a wet patch on my trousers would have sent me running for the fire exit. Not anymore…now it was a mild inconvenience that turned in to a great speech opener with an easy laugh from the audience! So, what would you do if disaster s truck? Practising your speech and some ‘back up plans’ will get you out of trouble time and again – build your confidence and ensure you never waste a public speaking opportunity.
People like me give out a lot of advice about public speaking – how to create great speeches, how to deliver them, and how to build a professional speaking career. All of that is important, but there also some fundamental speaking lessons that tend not to get spoken out loud. In my effort to kick off 2016 powerfully for speakers everywhere, here are the unwritten public speaking rules you need to know for long-term happiness and success.
afraid to embrace your own limitations. If you don’t know, own up to it, and don’t worry.
to know as much as you can. If you’re a speaker on carved gold rabbits, then you need to know as much as humanly possible about those rabbits. Read up!
Leadership 3. By the end of the hour, you should be talking love. You get attention by identifying a problem and playing it up. Look at the current American presidential candidates; you’d be pardoned for thinking that Armageddon was around the corner if you took them seriously. But by the end of the talk, you should be covering what it is that you love and what’s working in your world. Long-term careers are based on positive trajectories, not negative ones. 4. You put your ideas out there; you can’t control what the audience does with them. It’s your job to present your case with passion. The audience has its own issues, and you have no control over the extent to which they take up your ideas or not. Success is making your case, not in getting the most votes – or even a standing ovation. PROMOTED UNICEF USA BRANDVOICE
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Old-fashioned PR is dead. Discover how to communicate with purpose and passion today. 5. Keep it fresh. I once worked with a speaker who had been giving the same speech for 16 years – even the same jokes. That’s not public speaking, that’s purgatory. It’s your job to keep renewing your talk with the latest developments in your field – and with new approaches. 6. Keep practicing. Public speaking is not perfection; it’s connection. But that means that you need to keep working on your game in order to make the connection stronger, always. Always be rehearsing.
that a strategy never survives the first shot. In the same way, a speech is always a contingency effort. Things will go wrong, or at least differently. You have to be prepared to change on the fly. Always. 8. Forgive yourself for your mistakes. Try to spend as little time as possible after your presentation wishing that you had said or done something differently. Of course you should study and learn from your mistakes, but don’t beat yourself up unnecessarily. That won’t do anything for you except give you scar tissue.
long term – because someone else tells you it’s the right thing to do. Do it because it matters to you.
times as if everyone else is doing better, making smarter decisions, getting paid more, or getting better speaking venues. Don’t fall victim to Facebook Envy. Just keep tending your own garden. That’s your job. 11. Success is where you find it. If you let other people define your success, you’re always going to be chasing something you can’t catch. But your fans are out there, if you’re working hard and presenting with passion. So
open yourself up to the good things that are happening, not what you think is necessary for your success before you’ve begun the game. 12. Most successful people are successful because they work harder and stay longer than the others. Over and over again, I’ve seen professional speaking success go to the people that outwork everyone else. It’s not a game for the hobbyist. It’s why speakers actually earn those apparently outrageous hourly speaking fees – it’s not just an hour. There are many, many hours involved to get to that podium.
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