Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Want to be a speaker or an orator..?

...If you want to be a speaker or an orator, you certainly desire a very interesting thing, and certainly a very enjoyable job, if you can make a living out of it. Not only can you speak about something you are delighted in but you can encourage and build people! What a great feeling when you see someone's face smiling or when a person from the audience thanks you for being so comforting, delivering such good talks! Unfortunately some speakers are really boring. They are far from being good orator. Listening to such public speech is a waste of time for the public. I am sure that if you apply the 10 following tips, you are bound to become a great speaker, a talented orator!
TIP 1: Good Look
Be neat and clean, Hair should be neatly combed. Posture should convey an attentive attitude. Your personal appearance says much about you. When you are clean and well-groomed, others will likely conclude that you have self-respect, and they will be more inclined to listen to you.

TIP 2: Use of Microphone
What is said will benefit others only if it can be heard clearly. If they are to benefit from what is said, your audience must be able to hear clearly.
The Sound Equipment can amplify the volume of your voice many times and yet adequately maintain the quality and tone of your voice. Listeners will not have to strain to catch what is said. Instead, they can concentrate on the message.

TIP 3: Use of Visual Aids
Use pictures, maps, charts, or other objects to make important points of the lecture more vivid. A visual aid often makes a clearer or a more lasting impression on the mind than does just words.

TIP 4: Accurately Timed, Properly Proportioned
Give your talk within the allotted time, and use appropriate portions of your time for each part of the talk. Sufficient time needs to be allotted to each of the main points of instruction. It is important to end the meeting on time.

TIP 5: Make an Outline
To prepare an outline will give you more time to practice delivering the talk. Your presentations will be not only easier to give but more interesting to listen to and more motivating to your audience.

TIP 6: Be Fluent
A fluent person reads and speaks in such a manner that words and thoughts are easily understood, your words and thoughts flow smoothly. When delivery is fluent, speech is not jerky or painfully slow, and there is no stumbling over words or groping for thoughts.
When a speaker lacks fluency, the minds of the listeners may wander; wrong ideas may be conveyed. What is said may lack persuasiveness.

TIP 7: PUBLIC SPEECHER and ENTHUSIASM !
By animated delivery, give evidence of your strong feeling about the value of what you are saying.
ENTHUSIASM on your part will help to hold the interest of your listeners; it may also rouse them to action. If you are enthusiastic about what you say, your audience will be too.!

TIP 8: Visual Contact
Look at those to whom you are speaking, allowing your eyes to meet for a few seconds if that is acceptable locally. See individuals, not merely a group.
In many cultures, eye contact is viewed as an indication of interest in the person being addressed. It is also viewed as evidence that you speak with conviction.

TIP 9: Conversational Manner
Speak in a manner characteristic of everyday conversation but modified to fit your audience.

TIP 10: Develop a Theme
Go back to your theme, and mention it in various ways throughout your talk.
It unifies your presentation and helps the audience to understand what you say and to remember it

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