Speaking Articles

Speaking | By Paul Hata @ Tuesday, 19th August 2008 @ 8:13 PM

Public speaking can be a rewarding experience that allows individuals to showcase their skills or knowledge in a public forum. Public speaking opportunities can allow an individual to help enrich the lives of anyone in the audience by impressing experiences or information that can have life changing qualities. That being said, many individuals suffer extreme shyness or nervousness when faced with public speaking situations. These situations can range from large audiences of hundreds o... more...

Speaking | By Paul Hata @ Tuesday, 19th August 2008 @ 8:08 PM

The difference between a public speaking presentation that bores you to tears and one that leaves you with a smile on your face and thinking about that presentation is often not the content but the style of the speaker. You can take the same exact written talk and give it to two speakers and one will turn that script into an exciting live event for his audience and the other will leave that crowd cold. Obviously your goal as to be that speaker that can really make any presentatio... more...

Speaking | By Paul Hata @ Tuesday, 19th August 2008 @ 3:16 PM

The software application PowerPoint (PP) has been a revolution in public speaking particularly in the business world.It is easy to use, available with almost every implementation of the Microsoft Office suite and it's reliable. If you can use Microsoft Word, you probably have the skills to put together an effective presentation using it. But just like anything else, there is a right way and wrong way to give a talk using it as a speaking tool. If you have ever sat in on a presenta... more...

Speaking | By Paul Hata @ Monday, 18th August 2008 @ 9:05 PM

Any guide to success in an endeavor will tell you that there is no magic formula to success. But in a lot of fields of endeavor, there seem to be "insider secrets". And taking on the challenge of becoming a truly great public speaker is a noble ambition. But if you could learn the insider secret that makes the difference between good public speakers and great ones, that would help you make that transition. Actually there is one great secret to what makes speakers that... more...

Speaking | By Paul Hata @ Monday, 18th August 2008 @ 7:35 PM

Many times local civic organizations look for experts from various businesses to come and give a presentation about your area of skill. The Elks, Rotary and Kiwanis are just a few who are always on the look for good public speakers to address their groups. So if you get a chance to speak to these groups, its easy to see these as tremendous business opportunities for marketing. The problem is that these groups restrict you to only address your field of expertise and do not allow ... more...

Speaking | By Paul Hata @ Monday, 18th August 2008 @ 7:32 PM

One of the greatest fears we face when speak in front of a crowd is also one of it's greatest rewards. Public speaking is a totally live event. And that means that anything can happen and just about anything could happen in the middle of your presentation. So to change your fear of the unexpected to another talent you have to handling interruptions, think ahead what you will do if things come up and how you will get the crowd back on track with your outline to take them to the co... more...

Speaking | By Paul Hata @ Monday, 18th August 2008 @ 7:25 PM

When you are giving a presentation or speech, your body language and how you hold yourself in front of a crowd speaks to them as much as your words do. And part of not begin nervous in front of people when you are doing public speaking is not "acting" nervous. If you have complete control over your body, your face and your hands, you can perform relaxation in front of people and you will actually accept the idea that you are relaxed and begin to feel more at ease as you do your... more...

Speaking | By Paul Hata @ Monday, 18th August 2008 @ 7:21 PM

Public speaking is counterintuitive. That is to say what your intuition tells you is a good thing is not always the truth. And what your instincts say not to do is often the best thing to do. Your natural inner voice when you find out you have to do a public presentation is to write it all out and read it to the audience word for word. That way, so your inner voice thinks, there is no way you have to depend on memory and you won't ever get stuck and have that sinking feeling up ... more...

Speaking | By Paul Hata @ Monday, 18th August 2008 @ 7:21 PM

You cannot excel at public speaking without a good speech. If you are asked to give a speech or its required for work or school, you know that when you stand up there to give that presentation, you are going to have to have a well organized outline and content to get through it and impress those listening. Sometimes the fear of an upcoming speaking engagement comes from that writers block that happens when you have to write a good speech. Writing a speech is not exactly like w... more...

Speaking | By Paul Hata @ Monday, 18th August 2008 @ 7:21 PM

When a speaker loses an audience, too often it is a mystery to him. But for the audience, it is not a mystery. The simple fact is that many speeches we listen to spend a lot of time in some theory or idea. And we as humans have trouble focusing on an abstract idea for very long before losing interest.This is one of many reasons one of the central rules of public speaking is to use lots of stories and illustrations to make sure you hold the audience's attention. Some speaker... more...

Speaking | By Paul Hata @ Monday, 18th August 2008 @ 7:15 PM

When an author is trying to come up with a topic for his next story or novel, the old pros in the writing came will always give him the same advice. "Write about what you know." That is because if you speak from your own area of expertise, you will speak with authority and passion. And authority and passion not only make for a great story or novel, they make for a really good public speaking event as well. When you are putting together what you will use for your talk to... more...

Speaking | By Paul Hata @ Monday, 18th August 2008 @ 7:15 PM

There is a good reason that public speaking is a superior method of presenting material to a group than just faxing your text over and letting them read it. Yes, part of that reason is that by stepping through the talk, you can make sure they "get it". But the most important reason has to do not with the subject, not with the presentation style and not even with how good the donuts were before talk. The reason public speaking is so effective is that the audience gets the mater... more...

Speaking | By Paul Hata @ Monday, 18th August 2008 @ 7:14 PM

In the delightful Broadway musical "Singing in the Rain", there is a song called "Make em Laugh" which is based on this idea that the best way for any stage performer to build a bond with an audience is to use humor to bring a smile, or a laugh, to that audience. Well, that idea is not just valid for stage performers. It's just as true when you begin to develop your style as a public speaker. If you pick up any self help guide to how to be effective as a pub... more...

Speaking | By Paul Hata @ Monday, 18th August 2008 @ 7:13 PM

There is a bit of a misperception about the phrase "public speaking". The misperception that the technique of becoming good at public speaking is all in how you speak. The truth is that your voice is only part of what you need to be successful in giving a presentation to a group of people. To be an effective public "speaker", you should use every resource you have including your body language, your arms and your legs to capture the attention of the crowd and hold it.more...

Speaking | By Paul Hata @ Monday, 18th August 2008 @ 7:12 PM

When you see experienced public speakers, sometimes it seems they can cast a spell on an audience.You as an audience member know what that spell feels like. And one of the first evidences that this public speaker was going to keep this audience in the palm of his hand is that you almost instinctively liked him or her. And the interesting thing about that "spell" is that once you genuinely like this speaker, you naturally are open to his presentation, you listen more attentively ... more...

Speaking | By Paul Hata @ Monday, 18th August 2008 @ 7:09 PM

A public speaking situation can be intimidating for even the most seasoned of public speaking professionals. That is because when speaking to a live audience, you really never know what is going to happen. Never mind the freak occurrences of problems with the audience and the room, you as a human being could be subject to momentary memory halts that often come as the result of nervousness or just looking up and seeing all those eyes looking at you. So much of the discipline of g... more...

Speaking | By Paul Hata @ Monday, 18th August 2008 @ 7:08 PM

There is a style of public speaking that absolutely terrifies a lot of people. But when you see a public speaker speak extemporaneously, it is one of the most relaxed and easy to digest forms of public presentation it is. Now, to drop the fifty cent word, to speak extemporaneously means to speak without notes. In other words, pure extemporaneous speaking is done entirely without preparation and is done completely "from the hip" so to speak. There are variations, howev... more...

Speaking | By Paul Hata @ Monday, 18th August 2008 @ 5:26 PM

If you listen to experienced speakers, it's easy to see some real differences in how they step through their presentation than maybe how you go about giving a talk when you are called upon to speak in public. But it is a good exercise to use every opportunity to listen to different public speakers and learn from them. From speakers who are not effective, study why they are and learn how to correct those problems in your presentation. For speakers who are very good, learn ... more...

Speaking | By Stephen Campbell @ Monday, 4th August 2008 @ 1:24 PM

One one emerging problem that is infecting more and more individuals is something that is related to social anxiety disorder. In fact this illness is considered a nightmare for numbers of individuals because it really affects their way of life. Lack of self confidence and low self-esteem are considered to be the prime factors which hinder them to socialize and therefore a hindrance to achieve development. Because of social anxiety disorder, many are not able to face people in an ideal way... more...

Speaking | By Stephen Campbell @ Friday, 1st August 2008 @ 6:24 AM

The whole point of public speaking is to give your listening audience something to take with them. Rather it be something of entertainment, a speech of persuasion, and even just some new and interesting facts. You will want your audience members to be able to say that they absorbed something or that they do not waste their time listening to you. You will find that it can be hard to break through an audience, but you will want to utilize your emotions to convince them that they are getting someth... more...