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Effective Speeches. “The most thoroughly researched and well-organized speech will have little impact on an audience if the speaker’s delivery lacks a conversational quality, a desire to communicate, and speaker naturalness.” - Randy Fujishin in “The Natural Speaker” page 108.
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Effective Speeches • “The most thoroughly researched and well-organized speech will have little impact on an audience if the speaker’s delivery lacks a conversational quality, a desire to communicate, and speaker naturalness.” • - Randy Fujishin in “The Natural Speaker” page 108
What Makes an Effective Speech? Two Major Audience Questions • Why should they care about this topic? • Why should they believe you about this topic?
What Makes an Effective Speech? Audience Assumptions • The audience assumes every motion is motivated by the details of the presentation. • When it realizes that it’s just nervous energy, the audience has lost a few seconds of your presentation.
Deal with Audience Realities • Monitor your audience, and react to the feedback it provides. • Kinds of feedback from an audience.
Introductions • Grab the audience’s attention • Preview the speech
Conclusions • Summarize the speech • Leave the audience with something memorable.
Boring Topics • In the real world, you don’t always get to choose topic. • You need to engage the audience anyway.
Good Delivery • “Studies have shown that non-verbal communication has a greater impact than verbal communication when we receive and interpret messages.” - Randy Fujishin in “The Natural Speaker” page 108
What Non-Verbal Elements Make an Effective Speech? • Posture • Body Movement • Gestures & Facial Expressions • Eye Contact • Pacing • Voice Projection • Enunciation & Pronunciation • Inflection • Enthusiasm & Animation • Rehearsal • Confidence
Posture • An upright posture is important for credibility, and for putting your body in the best position to project your voice and gesture effectively.
Body Movement • Adds emphasis and enhances meanings. • Engages the audience by increasing the visual elements of the speech. • Helps guard against ineffective listening.
Gestures and Facial Expressions • Enhances and emphasizes meanings in your speech.
Pacing • Rapid pacing makes it difficult for the audience to absorb the material in your speech.
Eye Contact • Builds trust and credibility with the audience.
Voice Projection • You need to be heard throughout the room.
Enunciation and Pronunciation • Speaking clearly and saying the word in the proper way.
Inflection • The emphasis you place on words. • Where you pause. • Where you take a breath.
Sing Songy • A programmed up and down style of delivery. • Audience begins to anticipate, and sometimes wrongly, where the important meanings will occur. • Audience gets bored.
Enthusiasm and Animation • Enthusiasm helps engage the audience. • If you don’t care, why should the audience.
Humor • Engages the audience, and tends to relax the speaker.
Confidence • Makes the audience more likely to believe what they are seeing and hearing.
Rehearsal • Enough that you know the material and movements the day you deliver the speech. • Not so much that it begins to sound memorized and programmed.
What Non-Verbal Elements Make an Effective Speech? • Posture • Body Movement • Gestures & Facial Expressions • Eye Contact • Pacing • Voice Projection • Enunciation & Pronunciation • Inflection • Enthusiasm & Animation • Rehearsal • Confidence