SPEAKING TECHNIQUES
- Maryam Isa-Haslett
- Jun 27, 2019
- 2 min read
1) Be clear and organised:
Clarity is the very life of all speech and writing
No listener or readers like to be caught up in the jumble of confused thinking.
Mental training and logical thinking that come from all good knowledge
Especially in the world of business, clarity is the greatest asset.
All powerful speakers religiously stick to the principles - be clear.
2) Be simple:
From clarity of thought emerges simplicity.
The simpler the languages the greater the appeal.
A really effective speaker is one who explain the must difficult or complex matters in the simplest language to a layman.
No audience likes to be listen to jargon. They can be patient only with the simplest language.
3) Cultivate grace and naturalness:
Many things - smiling going to be or behaving in-affectionately are done worst when we try hardest to do them.
A cultured person moves and speaks with grace and sounds natural.
When face to face with a large, selected audience, it is quite natural to be conscious, perhaps over conscious, and for the moments to find it difficult to be natural.
Devise your own ways to look, move and speak with grace.
4) Enrich mental equipment:
Be a learned and well informed person - like the Greek proverb says, out of nothing, nothing comes.
So, we must remember that for every occasion and for every kind of speech, the best armament is a well stocked mind/equipped with all kinds of information/facts/figures/general awareness etc
Having the right kind of information for the right moment.
5) Be Enthusiastic:
Making an effective speech is not just a matter of doing a duty performing a ritual.
No one likes to listen to a doll or monotonous speaker. But an enthusiastic speaker.
Enthusiastic is contagious.
6) Be Precise:
Excessive information does not mean that one can go rambling or going into unnecessary details
Quality of information and quantity of speech
Every word we speak is valuable, and there is no word to waste
Be informal, information creates awareness
7) Mind Non - Verbal Language:
Effective use of gestures is a necessary component of speech whether prepared or impromptu.
Eye contact is indispensable.
8) Share Significant experience/ expertise with audience:
This will not only give a personal touch to the speech, but also confidence to the speaker and comfort the listeners.
It will make the audience feel important to the speaker.
9) Facts and Figures are not enough
If facts and figures had been enough, there would be no speeches
Anybody can have access to them.
They can just be circulated and badly stated.
They are just like skeletons, it is imaginative and effective use of language in a speech/ writing that breathes life into the skeletons and supplies it with flesh and blood.
Control emotions, but make an emotional speech.
What comes from the heart goes to the heart.
We have more on speaking techniques to share with you in subsequent blogs.
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