Effective Public Speaking & Cross-examination

1. Effective Public Speaking & Cross-examination By Cramer & Poapst

2. Why Public Speaking? • More feared than death! • Key to Education • Life long skill • Better Test Scores • Interviewing

3. Public Speaking Tips • Set-up • Look at your audience/judge • Eye Contact • Audience Adaptation • Sound engaged • Be organized

4. Practice Makes Perfect • Practice how you play • Practice with variation of skill levels • How often?

5. Nervousness? • Prepare • Hands • Eye contact • Comfortable clothes • Ignore errors

6. Other Speaking Tips • Keep hair back • No pens • No gum • No sugary products or dairy products • Warm up

7. Question of Speed • Clarity first • Start slower • Breath! • You’re trying too hard! • Have a diagnostic done

8. Diagnostic Tips • Breath boosters • Rhythm • High Pitch • Winded • Clarity • Choppy

9. Cross-Examination • It’s an art you must develop • Be ready • Look at judge • Have a strategy • Refer to evidence • Take control of that time