MUST SEE VIDEOS BEFORE YOU START

What words can do when spoken well   https://youtu.be/Iqq1roF4C8s?si=PLhufNvIvye6hIdC

 

Importance of Public Speaking https://www.youtube.com/watch?=Cjs7dyzLVco  

How I overcame fear of Public Speaking https://youtu.be/80UVjkcxGmA

Public Speaking  Preparing

• • Practice
  • Starting
  • Dos & DONTs

MUST SEE VIDEOS BEFORE YOU START

What words can do when spoken well   https://youtu.be/Iqq1roF4C8s?si=PLhufNvIvye6hIdC

Importance of Public Speaking https://www.youtube.com/watch?=Cjs7dyzLVco  

How I overcame fear of Public Speaking https://youtu.be/80UVjkcxGmA

      

• IMPORTANCE OF PUBLIC SPEAKING 

• Most important to rise in career
• Leaders greatest asset
• Shows confidence and competence
• Convey information correctly  and motivate
• Saves effort and achieves quick dissemination of information
• Most useful in Motivating and Team Building

 WORDS FROM OUR MENTOR

I coach & groom young people for Managerial Jobs.Please look up my blog http://www.communicationssimplified.blogspot.com and do the first 8 simple exercises.

I will give the following simple suggestions:-

(a) Your first effort should be to narrate a real experience you had in your life to 2 or 3 friends.

(b) You should write the full script in your own language using short sentences and practice it atleast 10 times.

(c) You and your friends should be sitting on chairs and you should have the script in your hands (Most difficult problem in Public speaking is “What to do with my hands?”)

(d) Speak casually to one friend at a time.

(e) Despite all this you will definitely panic and forget what to say next!!!

(f) Take a deep breadth, smile at your friends and look at the script in style and continue.

IF YOU CAN REALLY DO THAT – THEN YOU WILL NOT NEED MY ADVICE FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE TIME !!!!!

 Preparation

MENTAL PREPARATION BEFORE YOU START

·        FIRST THING -Stop finding ways to escape. 

·        NO HURRY – TAKE TWO WEEKS  !!! Before you start you have to
psyche yourself  !!! Take your time for this  !!!

·        ONCE FOR ALL DECIDE!!! There is no way you can avoid learning this
skill as it will cost your whole career. Get into a room alone and speak loudly
to yourself. Take your time to force your mind to believe that YOU CAN DO
IT. 

·        You don’t have to be great at the English language to be a good
speaker.

·        No one is a born speaker. All the great speakers have worked hard
at this. To some it is easier in the beginning. But if you decide to work hard
– There is no way you can fail.

·        IF YOU CAN DO WELL FOR THE FIRST TWO MINUTES ON STAGE – YOU WILL
SURVIVE. Hence NEVER NEVER get on stage for the first time unless you are fully
prepared – Practice, Practice, Practice!!!  

 

 Steps Before First Time On Stage

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• STEP 1
•  Best to start with a bed time story in your mother tongue and then in English
• STEP 2
• To gain confidence and to prove to yourself practice in front of your friends or family – First in your mother tongue. Second time in English. Do this till you are confident. 
• The arrangement should be as follows:-
• 1.You and your friends should be sitting on chairs and you should have a script in hand 
• 2.Start speaking casually to one friend at a time in no particular order of sitting
• 3.Psyche yourself and pretend that you are confident
• 4. Despite this you will certainly panic some times and will forget what to say next 
• 5. Take a deep breath and give a broad confident smile
• 6. To buy time – ask a Question or an opinion or tell someone to “Summarize what you have grasped so far.
• 7. Look at the script in style and continue as if nothing has happened
• 8.One trick to remember when you forget what to say next is to start telling about an incident or story you have experienced.  

STEP 3 Write the whole script again in your own words. Use only
short sentences and  only words you are very familiar with. Include a
story or an experience if possible

STEP 4 Highlight the Key words in YELLOW – Make a separate list of
these KEY WORDS in a small card and pin it to your script.

STEP 5 You should have memorized the first 20 lines.

STEP 6   Rehearsed at least 7 times before a Mirror.

STEP 7 On the day of the
presentation go at least 30 minutes before the event and mentally get used to
the environment. Have a spare copy of your Script and the Card with the Key
Words in your pocket.

 Starting Speech- 

(see video)- https://youtu.be/hN7vsXAUCgk?si=ln6xgq6aPLQLeRna

• A question

•  A newsworthy incident

•  A startling statement

•  A quote

•  A human interest story

•  Elevator Pitch

• Clear

• Catchy

• Creating impact

• Tell them what you are going to tell and how long

• Use facts/analogies / statistics / opinions

• (provide reasons for the same).

HOW TO START YOUR PRESENTATION.

·        Walk up to the rostrum briskly (watching your steps) and place your
script on it. Keep the Key Words’ Card in your shirt pocket.

·        Wait for the Audience to settle down before you start speaking.

·        Speak your first 3 sentence and then take a deep breath.

·        THREE THINGS WILL DEFINITELY HAPPEN!!

1. FIRST THING – You will forget your script

2. SECOND THING Your heart will start pounding

3. THIRD THING You will panic. THIS IS THE MOMENT YOU NEED TO COLLECT YOURSELF – 

1.    Take a deep breath. DO NOT LOOK UP

2.    Take the Key Word Card. Look at in style. DO
NOT HIDE IT.

3.    Have a glass of water while looking at the Key
Word Card.

4.    If you feel confident – Then restart. No harm
mixing languages

5.    If you don’t feel confident JUST TAKE OUT THE
SCRIPT AND START READING.

6.    Keep reading and you will feel confident in
about 30 seconds.

7.    If still not confident continue reading till
you feel confident.

8.    Once
you come back do it alone again and again till you feel confident.

 

 DOs & DON’Ts

 

DOs

• Have direct Eye Contact with one individual at a time
• Speak to one individual at a time
• Shift your gaze randomly to another individual and start speaking to him
• Never look at the floor or at the ceiling as that disconnects you from the Audience
• Use short sentances and words you usually use in your private conversation
• Speak deliberately and loudly enough to be heard clearly on the last bench – but do not scream!
• Do not speak to the audience while changing the slide or when you are writing on the board or when you are not looking directly at them
• Use your natural accent and never try to copy any one else

 

DON’Ts

Never insult someone. Never corner, joke about or embarrass a person.

Never beat your own drums Never speak to fast – be slightly slower than your natural speed

 Never jump to answer a Question from the audience — Throw it back – ask 2 – compile

Never speak with your back to audience – pointing or writing.

Never read. Note important points – Highlight – likely to forget

Never apologize – Keep going -Don’t call attention to worst

After you have finished your speech pause briefly, take a couple of steps back and then return to your seat slowly

Never wink and show the relief as if you have escaped.

 Never run after you finish – After you have finished your speech pause briefly, take a couple of steps back and then return to your seat slowly

Never try to impress using big words. – try to simplify and make it understandable

 Never try manipulating the thought process of the Audience 

Avoid Mumbling, Reading, Filler Words, Looking Down, Panning, Looking at the roof.

Avoid Overshooting Time Allotment 

Avoid Shouting but it is better than being too soft

Survival Kit for Public Speaking (On
Stage)     

• (Must practice this before hand)
• Take a deep breath, give abroad smile – Hide your panic – if you do this – then you will recover within a second
• Look at your notes boldly in style and start reading from it till you are confident again
• There is no shame in reading from your notes or looking at your points or even forgetting what to say next
• Buy time by asking the audience by asking a question or “Clear so far?” or?”
• The best way to recover is to say ” Let me tell you a story — I remember —-“ 

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Exercises in Public Speaking 

• Exercise 1 – Call out to a person 200m away
• Exercise 2 –  Announce (Shout) on Shop Floor ” Factory closed due to heavy rains”
• Exercise 3 – Read out to your partner who will write on aboard facing away
• Exercise 4 – Dictate to partner 15 feet away
• Exercise 5 – Dictate to the whole class
• Exercise 6 – Read out essay to the class
• Exercise 7 – Prepare lecture & deliver to 1
• Exercise 8 – Prepare lecture & deliver to 10
• Exercise 9  -Extempore Lecture to class
• Exercise 10 – Motivational Lecture to team
• Exercise 11 – Introduce a Guest Speaker
• Exercise 12 – Pacify  to Trade Union Leaders
• Exercise 13 – Convince Boss on a new biz
• Exercise 14 – Con call of Team with Boss
• Exercise 15 – Introduce a topic for GD
• Exercise 16 – Conclude a topic in GD in class
• Exercise 17 – Extempore Speech on unknown topic -Survival on stage (Tricks) Ask Qs, Summarize with e.g.
• Exercise 18 – Debate Prepared
• Exercise 19  – Debate Unprepared
• Exercise 20 – Conduct a Group Discussion 
• Exercise 21 – Moderate a Brain Storming
• Exercise 22 – Panel Interview
• Exercise 23  – Negotiation Skills
• Exercise 24  – Bullying a subordinate
• Exercise 25 – Happy Leader projection
• Exercise 26 – Try Suddenly Losing Temper
• Exercise 27  -Cornering an over smart subordinate
• Exercise 28 – Threatening termination
• Exercise 29 – Organizing a seminar
• Exercise 30 – Introducing a Speaker 
• Exercise 31 – Giving a farewell speech 
• Exercise 32 – Addressing your Department for the first time

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