How To Improve Your Speechmaking

If you’ve lived long enough, the chances are pretty good that you will have been in an audience and awoken by that great phrase, ‘In conclusion’. At a super-dull one that I sat in on recently, the speaker asked if anyone had a question, he would be glad to try to answer it. A member of the audience stood up. ‘I have a question’, he said. ‘Is it still 2017?’ The moral of the story for all of us, of course, when we’re called upon to deliver a speech is

1. be sincere,
2. be brief, and
3. be seated.

Many people fear speaking in public. It must be the public part that’s the problem, because most people seem to manage OK when they bump into someone in the street or speak to a waiter in a restaurant. Speeches needn’t be as Alfred Neuman observed, ‘… like steer horns. A point here, a point there, and a lot of bull in between’.

There are a few things you can do to prepare yourself.

1. Don’t leave it to the last minute. Make preparation a habit – drip, drip, drip.
2. Try out your speech on your pet, then work your way up to a friend (or two), seek their feedback, and, when you think you’re ready, try it out on someone else. The ‘someone else’ might be you standing in front of a mirror.
3. Use available technologies. The Internet and your Smartphone, for example,enable information to be transferred from one end of the world to the other. If you’re stuck for words, you can even buy the speech you want.

Here’s an offer too good to refuse. Just about everything you need to know about speechmaking is yours for the asking. Go to justasktom.com, checkout the e-book ‘Speechmaking’, and if you’d like a copy just let me know ([email protected]) and a freebee will be with you, pronto.

Source by Dr Neil Flanagan