Wednesday, February 10, 2010

The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking

( Guidelines from Dorothy Carnegie's book based on Dale Carnegie's "Public speaking and influencing men in business" )

Fundamentals of Effective Speaking

1. Acquiring the Basic Skills

  • Take heart from the experience of others

  • Keep your goal before you

  • Predetermine your mind to success

  • Seize every opportunity to practice

2. Developing Confidence

  • Get the facts about fear of speaking in public

  • Prepare in the proper way

  • Predetermine your mind to success

  • Act confident

3. Speaking Effectively the Quick and Easy Way

  • Speaking about something you have earned the right to talk about through experience or study

  • Be sure you are excited about your subject

  • Be eager to share your talk with your listeners

Speech, Speaker, and Audience

4. Earning the Right to Talk

  • Limit your subject

  • Develop reserve power

  • Fill your talk with illustrations and examples

  • Use concrete, familiar words that create pictures

5. Vitalizing the Talk

  • Choose subjects you are earnest about

  • Relive the Feelings you have about your topic

  • Act in earnest

6. Sharing the Talk with the Audience

  • Talk in terms of your listeners' interests

  • Give honest, sincere appreciation

  • Identify yourself with the audience

  • Make your audience a partner in your talk

  • Play yourself down

The Purpose of Prepared and Impromptu Talks

7. Making the Short Talk to Get Action

  • Give your example, an incident from your life

  • State your point, what you want the audience to do

  • Give the reason or benefit the audience may expect

8. Making the Talk to Inform

  • Restrict your subject to fit the time at your disposal

  • Arrange your ideas in sequence

  • Enumerate your points as you make them

  • Compare the strange with the familiar

  • Use visual aids

9. Making the Talk to Convince

  • Win confidence by deserving it

  • Get a Yes-response

  • Speakin with contagious enthusiasm

  • Show respect and affection for your audience

  • Begin in a friendly way

10. Making Impromptu Talks

  • Practice impromptu speaking

  • Be mentally ready to speak impromptu

  • Get into an example immediately

  • Speak with animation and force

  • Use the principle of the Here and the Now

  • Don't talk impromptu--Give an impromptu talk

The Art of Communicating

11. Delivering the Talk

  • Crash through your shell of self-consciousness

  • Don't try to imitate others--Be yourself

  • Converse with your audience

  • Put your heart into your speaking

  • Practice making your voice strong and flexible

The Challenge of Effective Speaking

12. Introducing Speakers, Presenting and Accepting Awards

  • Thoroughly prepare what you are going to say

  • Follow the T-I-S Formula

  • Be enthusiastic

  • Thoroughly prepare the talk of presentation

  • Express your sincere feelings in the talk of acceptance

13. Organizing the Longer Talk

  • Get attention immediately

  • Avoid getting unfavorable attention

  • Support your main ideas

  • Appeal for action

14. Applying What You Have Learned

  • Use specific detail in everyday conversation

  • Use effective speaking techniques in your job

  • Seek Opportunities to speak in public

  • You must persist

  • Keep the certainty of reward before you

( Courtesy: http://www.westegg.com/unmaintained/carnegie/easy-speaking.html )

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