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Nervous about Public Speaking? Or any type of
Speaking?
by Paul Woods
Stumbled across a great resource this morning for anyone who has to
speak, whether it be in front of 10,000 people, 100 people, or your
family. The Speaking Channel is an Internet TV channel launched a
month or so ago focused 100% on improving the way we speak. My
favorite show has to be "Great Speaking, with TJ Walker", where they
critique speeches by people like Bill Clinton and Arnold
Schwarzenegger.
Some great tips I have seen so far...
* The 'Words' only make up about 7% of your speech, so don't
spend all your preparation time drafting and re-drafting the words.
Focus on tone, pitch, body language, gestures... when you rehearse!
* REHEARSE, REHEARSE, REHEARSE!! Not rehearsing is like sending
out a first draft of a memo or newsletter to all your customers,
suppliers and to the media without checking the spelling, without
checking the grammar, or without checking the formatting
* Record your rehearsals (and your speeches) so you can see what
you can improve (the other 93% of your speech)
* PowerPoint + Text = Bad
* PowerPoint + Images = Good
If only I recorded some of my presentations from the last 12
months... you can send your own in for critique on the show.
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