Public Speaking
Things To Consider Before The Speech???
Hello everyone,
What are the things, which we must consider before public speech? I am adding few you are welcome to add more to this.
Thank you for replies,
Using your review tools to finish your speech is one of the key to success. When you are not writing your speech your mind is relaxed and will ponder on thoughts that could prove helpful. Review those thoughts to see if anything comes out that can fit into your speech.
Overall Review
The week you are to give the speech is at what time you will require to conduct an overall review. This will deepen your understanding, as well as bring your concepts together. You can also add or delete areas if the light comes on during this review. Sometimes we fail to see things at the time we are writing.
Now you can create some review tools, such as checklist, flash cards, and mind maps. This will take a large project, breaking it down so that you can get a grip on the speech. This will also improve your confidence. Don’t miss out on any tools otherwise you may find yourself in a problem as you are giving your speech.
Checklist
The checklist should incorporate the details you want to add to the speech, as well as incorporate the main points you want to bring out in the speech. You should also include the items you want to bring to the speech area in the checklist, such as what you will wear, what you want from the speech and more.
Flash Cards
Flash cards are handy reviewing tools that you can take to the speech area. Flash cards have two sides often in which you can write questions on one side of the cards and answers on the other side. You can add notes to the flash cards during the writing of your speech as you move along to bring back the associating points.
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July 20, 2006 - 4:32am
Look here-
In the late 1800's, the populists hosted a conference in order to fuel the populist movement. They trained 40,000 public speakers to go back home- to town meetings, and churches, street corners and civic organizations- to spread the word about banking cartels and the dangers of a centralized and centralizing government.
Look back at that number: 40,000. The population of the United States then was far less than forty million. 1% of the population were trained as public speaker to instigate change. Although the populists were later co-opted by the progressives, they started a train rolling that still has roots today that yearn to be heard.
Here we are on a blog. We write emails. Post Carbon is currently seeking an employee to, among other things, post on blogs all over the internet in order to spread the message. But the problem with all this is that we speak to the same people. We share the message with our allies. We affirm one another.
We've got to learn to speak- not just write. To speak is another form of communication that we're loosing. We must re-discover the art of chewing-the-fat in a directed way as to influence others. We've got to get bold- street corner baptist bold.
Do you know how to speak? Do you know how to get on the agenda at your civic organizations? Do you know how to tell a story...
People are not receptive to facts. Start listing statistics and the common person will think- if not say- shut up. But if you can tell them a story- even a story about how you learned a certain bit of information... then you've got them. And what's more, a story's something that your listener can turn around and tell to the next one on the street.
40,000 people trained to spread the message... in person, by voice.
The advertising market is saturated. TV is stacked. Newspapers are full with the "pressing news." Even radio is running over. We don't have the money to jump into any of these forums of mass communication. We cannot blog or advertise our way into the minds of the American people. We must speak with them and to them.
We've got to create messages that can be prefaced by the words, "It's bullshit, the way things are going. The working class are getting screwed."
Folks out there. Do you know how to gain the respect of a working grandmother. Of a tradesman. These are the force of democracy we must attempt to empower in our ranks. Without them we will forever remain a fringe group while oil shortages are blamed on Saudi's and Mexicans and the current administration.
We need to learn how to speak poetically, charasmatically, boldly... in such a way as to change the course of history. People say that speaking is a gift. In part that is true. But, it's also a skill that one can learn. And, listen hard and well, it's not a skill you learn in college or in public speaking siminars. It's a skill you learn by reading the Dr.Kings and Arundhati Roy's and listening to black ministers and that aunt of yours that has a way with words.
It's time we learned to be saints/poets/political speakers all in one synthesis. Are you ready to change the world?