How to Become a Powerful Speaker!!
We are living in a professional world. You might have possess great expertise but you'll always be judged on your
speaking skills. In public speaking the message and you are the same in your audience's mind.
Every time you open your mouth to speak, you have two choices. You can
inspire, make the sale, get your message across, influence others, and
make a powerful impact; or you can bore, lose the sale, embarrass
yourself, or, worst of all, make no impression whatsoever.
Being well-prepared will not only make you a more powerful speaker, it
will instill confidence and help you overcome your public speaking
fears.
Steps to become a powerful speaker:-
- Know your audience - Research and study your audience. Knowing your audience's age range, interest, education, work, ethnic background, and marital status, if it is relevant to your talk is very important.
- What is the end result of your speech - What’s really at the heart of your speech? By knowing that in hand you can create a powerful punch that drives home your message instead of rambling on and losing your audience’s interest.
- Your Competence - If audiences understand your level of knowledge and experience, they will simply trust you more. Every one of us is at his or her best when we talk about something that matters to us deeply.
- Sound - Alter your pitch, volume, speaking rate, inflection, stress and word coloring. The less monotone, the better.
- Grab their attention - Use humor, quotations and rhetorical questions to get them thinking about your speech.
- Be passionate - Believe and care about what you say. If you don't believe on what you talk no one will. Remember people may disagree with you, but they will respect you.
- Be yourself - Imitating other powerful speakers won't cut it for you. Your audience will know immediately and you will loose your trust.
- Be creative - Even if you are speaking to the first graders if you are not creative for their level you will be bored.
- Ditch the technology - When preparing your speech, try saying your thought out loud a few different ways. Keep doing it until you hear the best way. Now write it down. Don't first prepare your lousy presentation or write down an uninspiring story and then practice it. You will bore your audiences to death.
- Share a story - Although not everyone will be able to relate to your story but letting the audiences know that you share their values tend to warm up the audience.
- Delivery Skills - Every audience will be judging you--whether you like it or not, and whether they know they're doing it or not. Approaching your speech as more of a “me-to-you” discussion rather than a full-blown broadcast will make it more manageable (and less stressful) and easier on you.
- Move around - A top speaker uses the maximum space given to him to deliver his speech. Use your hands and gestures to engage the audience visually.
- Don't let technology overpower your speech - PowerPoint presentations are great for making specific points, but they can be overwhelming and boring.
- Focus on the big picture rather than all the pieces - That is to say end your speech with the same message you began with.
'I Know Why he Pulled the Trigger': High School Student,17, Suspended for Writing a Poem About Sandy Hook Shooter!
A 17-year old high school student has been suspended for a poem she wrote about the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Courtni Webb wrote the poem in a personal notebook about Adam Lanza and what she felt were his reasons for the mass murder at the Connecticut school earlier this month.
On December 14, crazed Lanza gunned down 20 students, aged just six and seven, and six adults in one of the worst school shootings in American history.
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Courtni Webb wrote the poem in a personal notebook about Adam Lanza and what she felt were his reasons for the mass murder at the Connecticut school earlier this month.
On December 14, crazed Lanza gunned down 20 students, aged just six and seven, and six adults in one of the worst school shootings in American history.
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Suspended: Courtni Webb, 17, who poem about the shooting tragedy
Causing controversy: 'I understand the killings in Connecticut. I know why he pulled the trigger,' wrote Courtni Webb in a poem
Action: The Life Learning Academy, a 60-pupil vocational school for students, suspended Courtni after reading the poem
He was armed with a high-powered rifle, similar to that used by US soldiers, two handguns and ...
Causing controversy: 'I understand the killings in Connecticut. I know why he pulled the trigger,' wrote Courtni Webb in a poem
Action: The Life Learning Academy, a 60-pupil vocational school for students, suspended Courtni after reading the poem
He was armed with a high-powered rifle, similar to that used by US soldiers, two handguns and ...
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Olympic Hero Mo Farah Questioned on Suspicion of Being a Terrorist by US Terror Officials!!
Farah, who on Saturday was given a CBE in recognition of his golden year, even tried to produce his two medals from the London Games in an effort to prove he was not a security risk.
However, he was still questioned "on suspicion of being a terrorist" due to the fact he was born in Somalia.
“I couldn’t believe it," Farah told The Sun on Sunday. "Because of my Somali origin I get detained every time I come through US Customs.
"This time I even got my medals out to show who I am, but they wouldn’t have it.”
Farah was attempting to fly to Portland, Oregon, where he trains under the gaze of famous coach Alberto Salazar.
"When we tried to get a residency visa, Nike obviously signed it all off and we thought it was going to be straightforward," he said of a previous incident.
“We were in Portland on a tourist visa so had to leave and re-enter the country as a resident. So we flew to Toronto to stay for a few days, then come back in.
“But when we were there we got a letter telling us we’re under inve
stigation as a terrorist threat and we would have to stay away for 90 days."
Yahoo reports
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