Purposeful Speakers are Highly Successful

1. Purposeful Speakers are Highly Successful How to speak purposefully and lead to success?

2. Purpose of a speech • To Persuade or get action • To inform • To impress and convince

3. Fundamentals of Effective and Purposeful Speaking • Acquiring the Basic skills • Developing Courage and self-confidence

4. Acquiring the Basic skills • Take heart from the experience of others • Keep your goal before you • Predetermine your mind to success • Seize every opportunity to practice

5. Developing Courage and self-confidence • Get the facts about fear of speaking in public • You are not unique in your fear of speaking in public • A certain amount of stage fright is useful • Many professional speakers have assured that they never completely lose all stage fright • The chief cause of your fear is thinking that you are unaccustomed to speak in public START WITH A STRONG AND PERSISTENT DESIRE

6. Developing Courage and self-confidence b. Prepare in the proper way KNOW THOROUGHLY WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO TALK ABOUT • Never memorize a talk word for word • Assemble and arrange your ideas before hand • Rehearse your talk with your friends and colleagues

7. Developing Courage and self-confidence • Don’t speak until you are sure you have something to say, and know just what it is; then say it, and sit down. Advice followed by Theodore Roosevelt A WELL PREPARED SPEECH IS ALREADY NINE-TENTHS DELIVERED

8. Developing Courage and self-confidence c. Predetermine your mind to success • Lose yourself in your subject • Keep your attention off negative stimuli that may upset you • Give yourself a pep talk

9. Developing Courage and self-confidence d. Act confident “To feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all of our will to that end, and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear” Prof William James, Psychologist. A real life example is Theodore Roosevelt, former President of the US who was inspired by Marryat’s Books

10. Developing Courage and self-confidence “In war the best defensive is an offensive. So take the offensive against your fears. Go out to meet them, battle them, conquer them by sheer boldness at every opportunity” Marshall Foch OFF COURSE SPEAKING IS ALSO LIKE WAR

11. Developing Courage and self-confidence e. Practice! Practice! Practice! • Fear is begotten of ignorance and uncertainty - Professor Robinson • It is the result of a lack of confidence • Lack of confidence is the result of not knowing what you can really do • Not knowing what you can really do is caused by a lack of experience • When you get a record of successful experience behind you, your fears will vanish. • So Practice! Practice! Practice!

12. Speaking Effectively a. Speak about something you have earned the right to talk about through experience or study - Tell what life has taught you - Look for topics in your back ground

13. Speaking Effectively b. Be sure you are excited about your topic PUT YOURSELF INTO YOUR TALK c. Be eager to share your talk with your listeners

14. Four ways to develop speech material that guarantees audience attention 1. Limit your Subject • Select your topic • Stake out the area you want to cover • Stay strictly within those limits

15. The Secret of Good Delivery “It is so much what you say as how you say it” • Crash through your shell of self-consciousness “It is simple enough in its conception, But unfortunately complicated in its execution” -Marshal Foch • Don’t try to imitate others-Be Yourself • Converse with your audience • Put your heart into your speaking • Practice making your voice strong and flexible “Words – spoken should be for making things easier to understand rather than show off the speaker’s knowledge” Swami Vivekananda

16. Recollect the Purpose of Speech • To Persuade or get action • To inform • To impress and convince

17. Making the Talk to get Action • Give your example, an incident from your life • Build your example upon a single personal experience • Start with a detail of your example • Fill your example with relevant detail • Relive your experience as you relate it Remember the incident-example makes your talk more interesting, more convincing and easier to understand

18. Making the Talk to get Action b. State your point, what you want the audience to do • The need for detail is over • The time for forthright, direct assertion has come

19. Making the Talk to get Action • Make the point brief and specific • Reduce the number of words and make your language as clear and explicit as possible • Don’t say – Think of your Grandparents now and then • Be patriotic • Instead Say – Make a point of visiting your Grandparents this weekend • Cast your Vote next Tuesday II. Make the point easy for listeners to do III. State the point with force and conviction

20. Making the Talk to get Action c. Give the reason or benefit, the Audience may expect • Be sure the reason is relevant to the example • Be sure to stress one reason – and one only

21. Making the Talk to Convince • Win Confidence by deserving it “The sincerity with which a man speaks imparts to his voice a color of truth no person can excuse” Alexander Woolcott

22. Making the Talk to Convince b. Get a YES response “My way of opening and winning an argument is to first find a common ground of agreement” Abraham Lincoln

23. Making the Talk to Convince c. Speak with contagious enthusiasm • Every time you speak, what you do determines the attitude of your listeners • If you are Lukewarm, so they will be • If you are dismissive and opposed so they will be “When the congregation falls asleep there is only one thing to do. Provide the usher with a sharp stick and have him prod the Preacher” Henry Ward Beecher

24. Making the Talk to Convince d. Show respect and affection for your audience “The human personality demands love and it also demands respect” Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

25. Making the Talk to Convince e. Begin in a friendly way • Pride is such a fundamentally explosive characteristic of human nature • It is on your part to get a man’s pride work for you, instead of against you • If it happens it is easier for the listener to accept rather than reject your proposal

26. The Secret of Good Delivery • Stress important words, Subordinate unimportant ones • Change your Pitch • Vary your rate of Speaking • Pause before and after important ideas

27. Platform Presence and Personality • A Speaker is - under a magnifying glass - in the spot light - and has all eyes are upon him. Remember “Even before we speak, we are Condemned or Approved”

28. Platform Presence and Personality • Go before your audience rested – a tired speaker is not magnetic nor attractive • Beware of your hunger. Eat as sparingly as a saint. • Do nothing to dull your energy. • Face the audience well dressed and groomed

29. Platform Presence and Personality • Unless there is a real reason or a necessity for the speaker to stand on a plat form, don’t do so. • Get down on the same level with the audience, stand near them and break up all formality. • Keep the air fresh • Let there be light - on your face

30. Platform Presence and Personality • Do not hide behind a table • Ensure that no guests on the Platform • When you are doing real speaking before a real audience, make only the gestures that come natural. • The best eleven words I have ever read is: Fill up the barrel Knock out the bung Let nature caper

31. How to open a talk? • Beware of opening with a so-called Humorous story • Do not begin with an Apology. There’s no use in going further • Arouse Curiosity • Why not, begin with a story? • Begin with a specific illustration • Use an exhibit

32. How to open a talk? • Ask a question • Why not open with a question from some famous man? • Tie your topic up to the vital interests of your audience • Don’t make it too formal • Don’t let the bones show • Make it appear free, casual and inevitable

33. How to close a talk? • Summarize your points • Appeal for action • Pay the audience a sincere compliment • Close with a poetical quotation, if possible

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36. Making the Talk to Inform “Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly Everything that can be said, can be said clearly” Ludwig Wittgenstein

37. Making the Talk to Inform • Restrict your subject to fit the time at your disposal Don’t take the subjects like “The rise and fall of the British Empire” or “The Constitution of India - its evolution and existence” if you have only five minutes to talk. As you cannot see the Whole Mumbai City in a half day as I and Jeyakumaravel did with out any specific use.

38. Making the Talk to Inform b. Arrange your Ideas in Sequence • For example, if you are talking about the Government of India, arrange it in the following way. • Government of India- Legislative Executive Judicial

39. Making the Talk to Inform c. Enumerate your points as you make them • Mention plainly as you go along that you are taking up first one point and then another like “My first point is…” • When you have discussed the point, you can say frankly that you are going to the second one. • You can keep on that way to the end

40. Making the Talk to Inform d. Compare the strange with the familiar For example a Catalyst. It is a substance that causes changes to occur in other substances with out changing itself. Try this. It is like a little boy in the schoolyard, tripping, punching, upsetting, poking all the other children there, and never being touched by a blow from anyone else. • Turn a fact into a picture • Avoid technical terms

41. Making the Talk to Inform e. Use visual aids “One seeing is better than a hundred tomes telling about” Japanese Proverb