Public Speaking Tips: What Have I Been Doing

I have been particularly busy this year with my public speaking. My last engagement was for the Tecorians (a public speaking organisation) where I delivered a presentation and demonstration on Humorous Speaking. I have also been developing public speaking courses, helping other people develop there skills. And I have been competing in impromptu speech competitions.

Time has rather slipped away. However, I thought that I might put together a presentation for you to watch in my next post. Perhaps I will touch on how to be a humorous speaker.

cheers

Nyree

SUMMER IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE

Hi

While most of the world has been dealing with floods, freezing conditions, tornadoes and other natural events, I have been down in New Zealand and enjoyed a wonderful summer in Christchurch, New Zealand.

The weather has been warm, the people amazingly friendly and I have had a number of speaking engagements as well.

If you get the chance to visit this wonderful green country, come in their Spring to their Autumn (October - March). New Zealanders don't use the term 'Fall' to describe autumn. The picture to the left, shows Christchurch taken from Sumner Beach and shows the Southern Alps in the background. New Zealand was founded by English settlers and Christchurch, in the South Island of New Zealand, is known as the most English city outside of England. It has to be seen to be believed.

Its coming into Fall now down here and time for me to bring my holiday/working time to a close. Keep an eye on this blog because soon I will be posting regularly again with hints, tips and products to enhance YOUR speaking abilities.

Keep well

Nyree

Public Speaking Tips - Some Great Resources

During the years it's taken me to reach my current stage of progress in public speaking, I've referred and used a number of resources. There are some really good resources out there and some others that are a total waste of time.

Everyone has his or her own style and some styles of speaking appeals to certain people and others don't. I hope you are enjoying and using the public speaking tips I've used in here and if you have found them useful, please allow me to recommend some tools to help you further.

Paul Evans is a speaker with a great reputation. He is paid quite a lot for making a speech. Imagine being 'paid' to speak! It's the greatest feeling in the world.

Another program I can recommend is this one.

How to Conquer Public Speaking Fears!

Be sure to check out some of the other resources I've used in my previous blogs and drop me a line if you want some one on one help. Zig Ziglar is a bit of a hero of mine. He has been a professional speaker for a lot of years and he has helped so many others. He has learned a great secret and it is:

You can get whatever you want out of life by helping enough other people get what they want. - Zig Ziglar

Be free

Nyree

Public Speaking Tips - What Next?

There is only so much preparation that you can do before you speak and only so many public speaking tips you can read. Of course you must go through all the preparation, the research, the audience analytics, topic search and subject research but then comes a time when you just have to DO IT!

Yes, that's right. Now comes the time you have to stand up in front of an audience and actually 'say' something. The rehearsals are all over and tonight (or today) is the day of your debut. I just know that you are going to do well.

Begin small. Take on the challenge of speaking for just 5 minutes. When you are comfortable, then speak for 10 minutes, 15 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes, 45 minutes and 1 hour.

Haven't you done well!! Congratulations. The moment you stood up, took a deep breath, made eye-contact with some of your audience, opened your mouth and gave the opening for your speech, you became a winner.

Who said you wouldn't feel nervous? Sure wasn't me because I still feel nervous. I've just learned how to get my butterflies to fly in formation. I've learned to breathe from my diaphragm and to breath deeply and relax all my muscles and take control of the platform, but I still feel nervous.

Nerves give you an edge. They give you sparkle. Nerves and confidence do go hand in hand. Whoever said they didn't or couldn't didn't know a thing about it. Bravery isn't about not being scared. Bravery is being scared and STILL doing what needs to be done.

Well done everyone of you who stood up and spoke. I'd love to hear from you about your experiences. Drop me a comment and let me know that my posts on public speaking tips have helped.

Nyree

Secrets of Successful Speakers: How You Can Motivate, Captivate, and Persuade

Public Speaking Tips For Successful Speakers

Part Two:

Just browse the previous post to read the first five of my Public Speaking Tips for successful speakers. Adding the previous five tips together with the following ones will give you a real advantage when it comes to your next presentation.

6. Relax. Deep breaths and a few yawns are a marvelous way of de-stressing. Don't have an alcoholic beverage for 'courage' before speaking. It does NOT beat the fear, but it will dull
your mind and produce tiredness so that you will bore your audience. It will make you think
you are giving a really scintillating performance when really, you're bombing out.

7. Don't apologize. Apologizing only draws attention to the things you really don't want or need attention to be drawn to and which the majority of your target audience didn't even notice.

8. Turn the anxiety into positive energy. Gather your nervous energy and transform it into positive, motivating enthusiasm and dynamism.

9. Concentrate on the message not the medium. Whatever you focus your attention on will begin to dominate your thoughts and feelings. So focus all that attention towards your message and your audience rather than on your anxiety and concerns and you will find that the butterflies in your stomach will begin to fly in formation.

10. Understand that people WANT you to succeed. Your target audience will want you to be stimulating. They want you to be informative and they want you to be entertaining. Once you realize this then you can RELAX and enjoy your message, enjoy your rapport with the audience and enjoy the whole process.

These points have been some of the most rewarding things I have learned. Learning them, understanding them and practicing them are what gave me the success I have today.

I hope these tips will help you to grow and develop as a public speaker

Nyree

Secrets of Successful Speakers: How You Can Motivate, Captivate, and Persuade