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Fear of public speaking

Useful Public Speaking Tips for Beginners

Powerful Public Speaking Tips for Beginners

Public speaking can be really daunting!

Fear of public speaking

Here are some useful public speaking tips for beginners:

1. Open with a story.
2. Eliminate fears before you go on stage.
3. Know your content.
4. Be prepared for tech failures.
5. No one wants you to fail.

For details, please check out the below YouTube video.

 

Check out the following speaking tips too.

18 Powerful Public Speaking Tips For Absolute Beginners
Source:  https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/18-powerful-public-speaking-tips-absolute-beginners-haldorsen

1. Act In-Spite of Yourself – Just Do It!
2. Always Build On Your Strengths
3. Practice with People You Know and Feel Comfortable With (Including Yourself in The Mirror!)
4. Record yourself to Train your Voice and Body Language
5. Carefully Study and Emulate Your Favorite Public Speaker(s)
6. Become a Serious Armchair Public Speaking and Body Language Expert
7. Work on Ditching The Notes
8. Have Plans for the Unexpected
9. Do Pre-Event Promotion
10. Add Social Sites to your Actual Presentation – Especially Twitter!
11. Establish a Pre-Speaking Routine
12. Exercise and Breath before Your Speech
13. Thank Your Audience When You’re Done
14. Analyze Your Performance For Next Time
15. Don’t Talk Right Away
16. Never Start with An Apology
17. Show up to Give, Rather than Take
18. Choose to Turn Your Nervous Energy into Contagious Excitement

Join Toastmasters and find a club that you like to practise your speeches in a friendly environments. You are welcome to visit our Kampong Ubi Toastmasters Club if you are living in Singapore.

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Highlights of World Champions of Public Speaking 2015

Here are the Results of World Champions of Public Speaking 2015:

Congratulations to Mohammed Qahtani of Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, District 79, on becoming the 2015 World Champion of Public Speaking for his speech, “The Power of Words.”

Congratulations to Aditya Maheswaran of Mumbai, India, District 41, on finishing in second place for his speech, “Scratch.”

Congratulations to Manoj Vasudevan of Singapore, District 80, on finishing in third place for his speech, “We Can Fix It.”

Source:  http://www.toastmasters.org/Events/2015-International-Convention

Insights from the 2015 World Champion of Public Speaking

The 2015 World Champion of ‪Public Speaking‬, Mohammed Qahtani shares his thoughts after winning.

Mohammed Qahtani World Champion of ‪Public Speaking 2015 Full Speech, “The Power of Words”


Here’s a breakdown of the speech that won the 2015 World Championship of Public Speaking…

“He immediately gets the audience on his side.
He doesn’t lose sight of his message.
He makes it personal.
He uses his strengths to overcome his weaknesses.
He ends on a hopeful note.”
Source: http://www.businessinsider.my/toastmasters-public-speaking-champion-mohammed-qahtani-2015-9/

Highlights of 2nd place winner 2015 World Championship of Public Speaking – Aditya Maheswaran

3rd place Winner 2015 World Championship of Public Speaking- Manoj Vasudevan Full Speech, “We Can Fix It”
Toastmasters World Championship’s second runner-up worked hard to build confidence…

Practice is the key to helping you improve on your communication and presentation skills. Join Toastmasters and find a club that you like to practise your speeches in a friendly environments.  You are welcome to visit our Kampong Ubi Toastmasters Club if you are living in Singapore.

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World Champions of Public Speaking Winning Speeches Playlist

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How to Give a Good Technical Presentation?

How To Deliver a Technical Briefing?

“Giving technical presentations is a fact of life for many of us. Delivery is difficult. Putting your message across is important to you and your work. Here are several important issues you should keep in mind when you give a technical presentation.”

Remember the following 5 basic techniques:
1. Keep in Simple
2. The 18 Minute Wall
3. Regain Attention
4. Anecdotes
5. Plan

Your point of view has to be valid, important and push for action. Be interesting!

For more info, check out the below YouTube video. 

 

“You’re giving a speech and it’s about your ideas. Whether the ideas are technical or financial or theoretical, that doesn’t matter. The challenge is still the same. How can you get your audience to understand, one idea at a time, and to remember, one idea at a time.”

For more details, check out the below YouTube video on How to Give a Technical Speech.

 

The next video shows the basic concepts on making a technical presentation, including:

  • Organization and presentation of material
  • Technical Content/Depth
  • Communication and speaking ability of presenter
  • Professionalism of view graphs and presentation
  • Ability to answer questions

 

“A technical briefing is a speech that conveys technical information to a specific audience, usually in a workplace.

Technical briefings should be presented in a way that allows an audience to understand and apply critical information. Technical briefings can range from an engineer briefing a group of managers on a current project, to a retail supervisor explaining a new company policy to the store employees. Follow the steps below to ensure your technical briefings are as effective as they can be:

  • Know your audience. Avoid using too much industry jargon or material that is too technical for your colleagues to easily understand.
  • State the purpose of the technical briefing in one or two sentences and use this summary as the focal point for the entire presentation.
  • Arrange the material into an outline containing an introduction, main points and a conclusion.
  • Summarize the main points of the technical briefing during the conclusion.”

Source: http://www.toastmasters.org/Resources/Public-Speaking-Tips/Delivering-Technical-Briefings

Practice is the key to helping you improve on your communication and presentation skills. Join Toastmasters and find a club that you like to practise your speeches in a friendly environments.  You are welcome to visit our Kampong Ubi Toastmasters Club if you are living in Singapore.

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Public Speaking Tips on Gestures & Body Language

Tips on Gestures & Body Language

Gestures and body language can be distracting and detract from the message of your speech if not used properly.

Learn how to improve your public speaking skills on gestures and body language by channeling nervous energy into purposeful movement.

Check out the following videos on gestures and body language.

 

Ask Darren: Public Speaking: What is a good body
language?

Make Body Language Your Superpower

It is an instructional video on using body language effectively presented by a few Stanford graduate students.

Gestures and Body Language

Types of Gestures:

  • Descriptive
  • Emphatic
  • Suggestive
  • Prompting

Coordinating gestures, eye contact and walking can be a challenge. Limit the number of times you walk when you arrive at your destination. Be sure to stay there and make eye contact, you can perfect this technique with practice.

Practice is the key to helping you improve on your communication and presentation skills. Join Toastmasters and find a club that you like to practise your speeches in a friendly environments.  You are welcome to visit our Kampong Ubi Toastmasters Club if you are living in Singapore.

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Toastmasters International 90th Anniversary

Celebrating the Toastmasters International 90th Anniversary!

“Toastmasters International (TI) is a nonprofit educational organization that operates clubs worldwide for the purpose of helping members improve their communication, public speaking, and leadership skills. Through its thousands of member clubs, Toastmasters International offers a program of communication and leadership projects designed to help people learn the arts of speaking, listening, and thinking.

The organization grew out of a single club, Smedley Chapter One Club, which would become the first Toastmasters club. It was founded by Ralph C. Smedley on October 22, 1924, at the YMCA in Santa Ana, California, United States. Toastmasters International was incorporated under California law on December 19, 1932. Throughout its history, Toastmasters has served over four million people, and today the organization serves over 313,000 members in 126 countries, through its over 14,650 member clubs.”
Source:   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toastmasters_International

 

“This October marks the 90th anniversary of Toastmasters International. Since 1924, Toastmasters has helped millions of members empower themselves by gaining communication and leadership skills, enabling them to lead richer lives.

Over nine decades, Toastmasters has evolved from a small network of clubs in Southern California to more than 14,650 clubs in 126 countries, with membership…”
More info can be found at http://www.toastmasters.org/About/90th-Anniversary

Speaking with confidence is really useful.  However, not everyone can do it. Practice is the key to helping you improve in public speaking. Join Toastmasters and find a club that you like.

You are welcome to visit our Kampong Ubi Toastmasters Club if you are living in Singapore.

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Tips and Videos from World Champions of Public Speaking

Pubic Speaking Tips & Videos from World Champions

Are you afraid of speaking in front of public?

Here are the Five Public Speaking Tips from the 2014 World Champions of Public Speaking Dananjaya Hettiarachchi:

1.   Always start with a message when crafting your speech
“This message is whatever you want your audience to be thinking about when your presentation concludes…”

2. Be confident enough to be yourself
“You need to sell yourself before you sell your message,” Hettiarachi says… The only way to go in front of an audience and to present in a way that isn’t simply miming is to practice again and again, pretending (if need be) that you’re talking to a room full of your closest friends.”

3. See yourself through your audience’s eyes
“Novice speakers tend to become wrapped up in themselves, which may just be because they’re afraid to acknowledge a room full of listeners. But if you’re going to speak, you need to realize that you’re doing it for the benefit of others, not yourself…”

4. Have a forum to practice
“For Hettiarachchi, his Toastmasters group provided a place to grow as a speaker, but he says any kind of similar forum is suitable, because like any skill, you must practice public speaking to become and then stay great at it…”

5. Find the right coach or mentor
Hettiarachchi says, you should find someone willing to help you grow as a public speaker. Interestingly, this does not need to be someone who can teach you advanced speaking techniques; they just need to be someone who “gives you permission to explore possibilities, who gives you permission to fail,” he says…

For viewing the full article, click here.

Dananjaya Hettiarachchi World Champion of Public Speaking 2014 Full Speech, “I See Something”

The below are some selected YouTube videos from other World Champions of Pubic Speaking.  Enjoy!  🙂

Presentation Skills Training from 1999 World Champion of Public Speaking Craig Valentine


Winning Toastmasters Motivational Speeches by 2001 World Champion Darren LaCroix at NSA


Jim Key World Champion of Public Speaking 2003 Full Speech, “Never Too Late”


Randy Harvey World Champion of Public Speaking 2004 Full Speech, “Lesson from Fat Dad“


Lance Miller World Champion of Public Speaking 2005 Full Speech, “The Ultimate Question”

Practice is the key to helping you improve in public speaking. Join Toastmasters and find a club that you like.  You are welcome to visit our Kampong Ubi Toastmasters Club if you are living in Singapore.

P.S.
World Champions of Public Speaking Winning Speeches Playlist

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