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Speakers Need To Learn To Read Their Audience

March 14, 2023 by drjim
We need to understand what our audience wants in order to give it to them

Speakers need to get good at “reading” their audience so that they can adapt their speech as they are giving it to best meet the needs of their audience

Categories 6 - Present Tags attention, audience, benefits of public speaking, connection, importance of public speaking, indicators, questions, read, responses, signals, Toastmasters

How To Create A Humorous Speech

November 8, 2022 by drjim
Creating a humorous speech is easy if you know how to do it

Speakers who want their speech to be remembered need to find ways to work more humor into their next speech

Categories 3 - Create Tags attention, audience, benefits of public speaking, characters, costume, exaggerate, funny, humor, importance of public speaking, laugh, Toastmasters

Does Humor Have A Place In A Business Speech?

October 4, 2022 by drjim
If done correctly, a speaker can eliminate the boring from a business speech

Speakers can add humor to their business speeches in order to connect with their audience and have their message remembered

Categories 5 - Rehearse Tags audience, benefits of public speaking, business, clash, humor, importance of public speaking, interact, pain, Remember, speech, test, Toastmasters

How To Work Stand Up Comedy Into Your Next Speech

September 20, 2022 by drjim
If done right, you can incorporate stand-up comedy techniques into your next speech

Speakers who want to do a better job of connecting with their audience need to study stand-up comedians and work their techniques into their next speech

Categories 7 - Change Tags audience, benefits of public speaking, comedian, comedy, humor, importance of public speaking, jokes, laughing, laughs, stand-up, Toastmasters

How Speakers Can Deliver A Virtual Speech

July 19, 2022 by drjim
When you can't be there, you can still captivate your audience

Speakers can now deliver virtual presentations to audience; however, this is a different way of speaking and we need to take the time to master it

Categories 6 - Present Tags agenda, attention, audience, benefits of public speaking, importance of public speaking, platform, PowerPoint, presentation, Toastmasters, virtual

How Can Speakers Use Twitter To Make Their Next Speech Even Better?

June 28, 2022 by drjim
Speakers need to learn how Twitter can make their next speech even better

Speakers need to understand that they can’t get their audience to put their phones away so they should start to incorporate Twitter into their speeches

Categories 7 - Change Tags attention, audience, audio, benefits of public speaking, clips, follow up, importance of public speaking, mobile phone, questions, tag line, Toastmasters, Twitter

How Speakers Can Deal With An Audience That Is Distracted

June 21, 2022 by drjim
Speakers need to be able to deal with audiences who are texting or tweeting

Speakers need to realize that part of their audience will always be distracted by phones and laptops and we need to find ways to make this work for us

Categories 6 - Present Tags attention, audience, benefits of public speaking, cell phone, distracted, importance of public speaking, iPhone, laptop, message, social media, Toastmasters

Speaking To Sell

May 24, 2022 by drjim
Speakers can create speeches to sell ideas

Speakers can use their speeches to sell things and ideas to their audience if they know how to create a speech that will sell

Categories 3 - Create Tags adapt, audience, benefits of public speaking, credibility, idea, importance of public speaking, momentum, opinions, risky, sell, selling, Toastmasters

How Speakers Can Use Video To Become Better

April 5, 2022 by drjim
A video recording will show you what your friends won't tell you

Speakers who want to get better need to take the time to record themselves on video so that they can see what they look like to their audience

Categories 7 - Change Tags audience, benefits of public speaking, camera, eye contact, first impressions, headline, importance of public speaking, key point, message, Toastmasters, video, video recording

How To Speak About Controversial Topics

March 15, 2022 by drjim
Talking about sex, religion, or politics can get your audience riled up

Speakers who are thinking about talking about sex, religion, or politics need to take the time to study their topic and their audience

Categories 1 - Plan Tags audience, benefits of public speaking, controversial, damage, importance of public speaking, objective, politics, religion, sex, taboo, Toastmasters
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