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Speakers Can Connect By Using Cultural References

April 18, 2023 by drjim
Pop culture can help us to better connect with our audience

Speakers who want to be able to connect with their audience need to find ways to work cultural references into their next speech

Categories 2 - Organize Tags benefits of public speaking, cite, classical poetry, connection, cultural reference, fairy tales, folk stories, importance of public speaking, quotes, reference, Toastmasters

How To Convince An Audience

April 11, 2023 by drjim
Speakers need to know how to convince an audience that they are right

Speakers who have a good idea need to take the time to find ways to convince their audience to support their new idea

Categories 7 - Change Tags benefits of public speaking, confidence, idea, ideas, importance of public speaking, persuade, persuasion traps, reaction, Tags convince, Toastmasters, wishes

A Speech’s Second Life

March 28, 2023 by drjim
Is it possible to reuse a speech after you have given it?

Speakers want their speech to have a second life after they give it and so they have to be willing to go searching for a way to get it to new audiences

Categories 7 - Change Tags benefits of public speaking, expert, file, importance of public speaking, live, magazine, online, publisher, reuse, second life, Toastmasters, write down

How To Deal With Stage Fright

March 21, 2023 by drjim
Stage fright is natural; however, we need to know how to deal with it

Stage fright is something that all speakers feel, and it can impact us differently. We need to realize what we are feeling and then take steps to control it.

Categories 7 - Change Tags benefits of public speaking, breathing, flushing, importance of public speaking, nervous, prepare, shaking, spotlight, stage fright, sweaty palms, Toastmasters

The Power Of A Good Speech Title

March 14, 2023 by drjim
A good speech starts with a good title

Speakers should always take the time to create a good title for their speech in order to get their audience interested in what they will say before they say it

Categories 1 - Plan Tags ahead, anticipation, benefits of public speaking, enthusiasm, focus, importance of public speaking, speech, title, Toastmasters, understanding

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 A Speaker Can Recover From Giving A Bad Speech

March 7, 2023 by drjim
One bad speech should not end a speaking career

Every speaker will eventually give a bad speech. When this happens we need to be able to analyze the speech, determine what went wrong, and try again

Categories 7 - Change Tags analyze, badly, benefits of public speaking, disappointing, importance of public speaking, perspective, plan, right, speech, Toastmasters, troubleshoot, wrong

How To Lie In Your Next Speech

February 28, 2023 by drjim
The ability to tell a tall tale can make a speech more memorable

In order to both capture and hold on to an audience’s attention, a speaker can add tall tales to their speech

Categories 2 - Organize Tags accent, attention, benefits of public speaking, claim, importance of public speaking, library, movies, repetition, storytelling, surprises, Tags lie, tall tale, Toastmasters

What Can You Get Out Of Your Next Speech?

February 21, 2023 by drjim
Perhaps we should think of each speech as being a contest

Every time that we give a speech we can view it like being in a contest and come out a winner if we are able to provide our audience with value

Categories 7 - Change Tags accolades, benefits of public speaking, comments, contest, failure, growth, importance of public speaking, speech, successful, Toastmasters, winner

How Powerful Is Nonverbal Communication?

February 14, 2023 by drjim
We know nonverbal communication is powerful, but how powerful is it?

Speakers need to understand that although nonverbal communication is important, the majority of our message comes from the words that we say

Categories 6 - Present Tags Albert Mehrabian, benefits of public speaking, importance of public speaking, nonverbal communication, nonverbally, Silent Messages, Toastmasters
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