The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking

Fundamentals of Effective Speaking

1. Acquiring the Basic Skills

• Take heart from the experience of others 
• Keep your goal before you 
• Predetermine your mind to success 
• Seize every opportunity to practice 

2. Developing Confidence

• Get the facts about fear of speaking in public 
• Prepare in the proper way 
• Predetermine your mind to success 
• Act confident 

3. Speaking Effectively the Quick and Easy Way

• Speaking about something you have earned the right to talk about through experience or study 
• Be sure you are excited about your subject 
• Be eager to share your talk with your listeners 

Speech, Speaker, and Audience

4. Earning the Right to Talk

• Limit your subject 
• Develop reserve power 
• Fill your talk with illustrations and examples 
• Use concrete, familiar words that create pictures 

5. Vitalizing the Talk

• Choose subjects you are earnest about 
• Relive the Feelings you have about your topic 
• Act in earnest 

6. Sharing the Talk with the Audience

• Talk in terms of your listeners' interests 
• Give honest, sincere appreciation 
• Identify yourself with the audience 
• Make your audience a partner in your talk 
• Play yourself down 

The Purpose of Prepared and Impromptu Talks

7. Making the Short Talk to Get Action

• Give your example, an incident from your life 
• State your point, what you want the audience to do 
• Give the reason or benefit the audience may expect 

8. Making the Talk to Inform

• Restrict your subject to fit the time at your disposal 
• Arrange your ideas in sequence 
• Enumerate your points as you make them 
• Compare the strange with the familiar 
• Use visual aids 

9. Making the Talk to Convince

• Win confidence by deserving it 
• Get a Yes-response 
• Speakin with contagious enthusiasm 
• Show respect and affection for your audience 
• Begin in a friendly way 

10. Making Impromptu Talks

• Practice impromptu speaking 
• Be mentally ready to speak impromptu 
• Get into an example immediately 
• Speak with animation and force 
• Use the principle of the Here and the Now 
• Don't talk impromptu--Give an impromptu talk 

The Art of Communicating

11. Delivering the Talk

• Crash through your shell of self-consciousness 
• Don't try to imitate others--Be yourself 
• Converse with your audience 
• Put your heart into your speaking 
• Practice making your voice strong and flexible 

The Challenge of Effective Speaking

12. Introducing Speakers, Presenting and Accepting Awards

• Thoroughly prepare what you are going to say 
• Follow the T-I-S Formula 
• Be enthusiastic 
• Thoroughly prepare the talk of presentation 
• Express your sincere feelings in the talk of acceptance 

13. Organizing the Longer Talk

• Get attention immediately 
• Avoid getting unfavorable attention 
• Support your main ideas 
• Appeal for action 

14. Applying What You Have Learned

• Use specific detail in everyday conversation 
• Use effective speaking techniques in your job 
• Seek Opportunities to speak in public 
• You must persist 
• Keep the certainty of reward before you