Communication
8 Simple Ways to Encourage Others
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Take an interest. I believe this is one of the most effective ways of encouraging others. Show that you’re interested in what they’re doing. Get them talking. People like to talk about themselves and once you get them talking, you fire up their enthusiasm.
Acknowledge what’s important. When you acknowledge what’s important to another, you provide validation [...]
How to Write a Eulogy
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I attended a funeral last week for a woman who had lived a good, long life. There were two eulogies given, one be a long-time friend and the other from a family member. It was interesting to hear the similar themes that came out as they spoke of someone who had played an [...]
10 Steps for Practicing A Speech
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If you’re like me, when preparing to speak, the temptation is to read through the outline a couple of times and figure I’m all set for the delivery. Unfortunately, this rarely works. If I don’t practice my speech aloud, several times, I’m not going to do my best when giving the speech.
There is a gulf between knowing how to deliver [...]
10 Tips for Giving a Great Speech
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Speak from the heart. What you say and how you say it are important, but why you say it is even more important. When you speak from your own conviction, you improve the possibility that your listeners will accept what you’re saying.
Have specific objectives for the speech. An objective should target behaviour or [...]
Keeping speakers from going overtime at conferences
One of my pet peeves, when attending conferences, is the speaker(s) who go past their allotted time and eat into the next presenter’s session. I wish David Gurteen chaired all the conferences I attend. He sees it to be the chairperson’s responsibility to keep speakers on time.
To my mind, the responsibility for keeping the speakers [...]
4 Basic Types of Speeches
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The four basic types of speeches are: to inform, to instruct, to entertain, and to persuade. These are not mutually exclusive of one another. You may have several purposes in mind when giving your presentation. For example, you may try to inform in an entertaining style. Another speaker might inform the audience and try to persuade them to act [...]
How to Select Your Topic When Giving a Speech
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At some time, the path to personal success is going to have a stop to give a speech. It could be giving a project update at a staff meeting, selling your product to investors, or speaking to the board of directors. In some cases, you would be given a specific topic. However, there [...]
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9 Key Steps for Preparing a Speech
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The Americans are into a Presidential election year. From now until November, every time you turn on the television, you’ll catch a candidate—at some level of government—making their pitch. There will likely be more speeches than you care to hear.
Locally, we’re expecting a Provincial election call today or tomorrow. Fortunately, we’ll have to [...]
57 Resources to Improve Your Public Speaking
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Web Pages
Directory on Motivation Speaking
Presentation Helper
Shyness & Social Anxiety Treatment Australia
Advanced Public Speaking Institute
10 Tips For Successful Public Speaking
Allyn & Bacon Public Speaking Website
Successful Communication
Power Pointers
Presentations Magazine
Speaker Central
The Speech Site
100 Creative Presentation Ideas
19 Tips for Public Speaking
Art of Speaking in Public
The Art of Using Humour in Public Speaking
Public Speaking and Speech Writing
Speech [...]
