Public Speaking Skills
Public Speaking Skills Overview
Public speaking involves speaking to a group of people with the purpose of convincing, influencing, educating, and persuading them. Public speaking comprises a set of skills that all work together to help you achieve your objective for presenting an idea, a thought, a product, or even a service to a certain group of people.
Many people panic at the thought of speaking to a group, and only a small percentage of the population are actually able to speak confidently when standing in front of a crowd. But because public speaking skills are considered necessary and vital to every working professional, particularly to people who always find themselves speaking in front of a group, it is something that must be learned and developed.
Our Public Speaking training will help you become an effective public speaker, and while it is not something you can achieve overnight, this program will serve as a guide to develop public speaking skills slowly but surely.
Training Objectives
By the end of this self-paced training, you will be able to:
Learn how to conquer your fear of public speaking
Learn how to develop a clear, emphatic, and confident voice
Learn how to use your body language to convey your thoughts, ideas, and feelings
Learn how to use humor to build rapport with your audience
Learn how to use visual aids in order to present ideas well
Learn invaluable tips on how to speak in front of a group and avoid making careless mistakes
Target Audience
People who are not completely confident about their public speaking skills can use this training program to their advantage.
Public speaking is an art of presenting an idea, a product or a service to the crowd or to the public. It’s a challenging art to master since it will require the speaker to persuade the crowd or at least carefully educate the listeners about the topic discussed. Public speaking is more than just talking in front of many people – a person has to educate, persuade and even entertain at the same time. This is difficult since the public has varying and even conflicting mindsets. But a difficult undertaking is not an impossible task. Letting the people know what…
Your voice is your best tool in public speaking. Without your voice, you would not be able to deliver a single speech because you will never be heard. Your voice allows you to communicate to your audience, convey ideas and even solicit emotions and reactions because of your compelling speech. Professional public speakers always take care of their voice much like singers, radio personalities and even phone operators. Their success in their respective industry is based on their ability to speak. But public speaking is not just opening your mouth with a few gestures to convey emotions. Your voice should…
The ability to deliver a great speech in public is a highly regarded skill. It’s a skill that does not simply require knowledge of the topic but the ability to inform and keep the audience interested during the speech. A great public speaker could even invoke emotions and could trigger reactions from the audience. That is why public speaking is more than just getting in front of everyone and talking about what you know. There are many things a speaker should consider before delivering a speech. The speaker should have enough knowledge, practice the delivery and know the audience well…
Your body language is one of the factors that will determine the success or failure of your speech. Aside from the actual speech, the audience will notice how your body moves as this is used to emphasize an idea. Your facial expressions, your hand movements and even the movements of your feet could be used on your speech so that you can effectively communicate to your audience. Without any movement, your speech will be dull as you don’t offer any additional information to your audience. Standing in front of the pulpit or in front of the microphone without any hand…
Mastering public speaking is a relatively easy task for some individuals. These individuals just need careful coaching before they finally master the art of public speaking. Through practice and careful research of the topic, public speech can be easily handled. After all, public speech is practically an activity wherein a person stands in front of the crowd to explain a point, state some facts or tell a story. However, there are individuals who have a hard time dealing with the fact that they will be standing in front of a crowd for a short speech. Some are just anxious or…
Speech writing is one of the key aspects in preparation for public speaking. The speaker maybe familiar where the speech will take place and have the right visual aids but none of these will matter if the speaker didn’t take time to write a speech. The speaker has to literally write down everything that he or she has to say in order to fully prepare for an important event. Through speech writing, everything will be considered which means the speaker will be reminded of the topics that need to be discussed. Speech writing does not necessarily involved writing what you…
Proposals and presentations are forms of public speeches done with few spectators. These are often done with business purposes wherein the speaker is offering a service, a product or presenting actions that need to be done for business advancement. The spectators could be colleagues, persons from the upper management or someone working for the speaker. Proposals and presentations are often done with visual aids for additional information from the speaker. Proposals and presentations are particularly challenging forms of speeches since they require more than just to entertain and to inform the audience. These speeches have to persuade the audience into…
An impromptu speech is easily the most difficult form of public speaking assignment. It’s a type of speech that will not give you enough time to prepare. You will be asked to speak in front of everyone out of the blue in order to talk about the specific subject. But even with little to no preparation, you are still expected to deliver a great speech. A badly delivered speech is inexcusable even though you didn’t have any time to prepare. You’ll still be viewed as a bad speaker if you are unable to have a compelling speech with little to…
Delivering laughter in your next public speech is not as easy as preparing the topic of your speech. Although you can see a lot of stand-up comedians that can easily tell a funny story or continuously tell jokes, trying to solicit laughter from your audience seemed like an impossible task. Because of the difficulty in properly delivering jokes in public speaking, many opted to forget about the humor part and continue with their speech. A speech without humor is possible. Some of the best speakers are not necessarily the funny ones or those who can crack a joke. There are…
Visuals aids play a big part in public speeches and business presentations. Through visual aids, the presenter will enjoy easy access of information needed during the speech. This will give the presenter more time to concentrate on how the data is presented and interact with the audience. Tools in public speeches can cause success as much as they can cause failure. While your visual aids could help you give information packed speech, you might end up giving a boring speech. What you might do is merely concentrate on what was written instead of interacting with the audience to provoke interaction….
Public speaking is considered a skill that could not be easily gained. While there are successful public speakers who were able to master their craft fast, most have to go through rigorous training before they can establish themselves as accomplished speakers. But even training could not ensure anyone becoming an accomplished speaker. Experience is necessary as the tricks of the trade can’t be easily mastered without learning them in an actual public speech. Aside from the research and training you need, you literally have go through awkward situations in various public speeches. The challenge of public speaking can even increase…
The financial reward for professional pubic speakers is very attractive. A professional public speaker could charge from a few hundred dollars per speaking engagement to thousands of dollars for every presentation. A well established public speaker could be invited to speak in other cities, states or even outside the country with travel fees paid for by the organization. Since public speaking is not necessarily daily work, professional speakers could spend more time with their family. A successful public speaking career is practically a dream job for anyone as it could give you a lot of free time while being paid…
Memorization in public speeches is not a highly recommended practice. Even though memorizing your speech word-for-word will help you deliver a well-written speech, the speaker will oftentimes end up giving a disastrous speech. A packaged speech will often yield the following situation: The speaker will never sound natural – instead of making eye contacts and emphasizing on some points with gestures and body movements, the speaker will just focus on the delivering the speech. The speaker will just concentrate on remembering what was written. This means the speaker will lose focus on the audience. . The speaker might get lost…
Gestures in public speeches are as important as the speech itself. Through gestures, the speaker will be able to emphasize on some points and to convey the right message to the audience. For example: saying, “We must prevail” without any movements conveys a diplomatic tone to the audience while the statement, “We must prevail” with hands pounding on a pulpit conveys an aggressive stand towards victory. Even though the statement is the same in text, they can convey a different message – all because of hand movement during the speech. But gestures in public speech are more than just random…
Storytelling is one the best tools a public speaker could use to relate to the audience. Through storytelling, the audience will be able to identify themselves as they also have the same experience or at least witnessed the said event in real life. When a story is well told, the audience will be easily captivated and the point of the speaker would be easily understood. Storytelling can be used by a public speaker in almost any occasion. A talk in front of the kids could be possible with the right stories and using stories to persuade CEOs and business managers…
