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Our Public Speaking training seminars are designed for both the inexperienced presenter or as a refresher for more experienced members of your company or organization. Our public speaking training seminars (seminar) are offered in most major cities across the United States and Canada. All public speaking skills training classes are small which assures each training seminar participant that they will be allotted an extensive amount of time with each of the two senior level public speaking seminar administrators.

Our public speaking training seminars (presentation training) will eliminate all participants fears or inexperience in public speaking and dramatically improve public speaking skills whether you are persuading, educating, or informing. Our highly interactive public speaking seminars (seminar) focus on professional business communication including preparation, structure, delivery, and strategy, use of visual aids, and handling tough questions & answers. Contact us today by phone at 713-627-7700 or via email: service@publicspeakingtraining.net, Ask for our Public Speaking Seminar Customer Service Specialist.

Public Speaking Skills Training: Effective Public Speaking - Put Your Audience in Your Opening

Emily Kimbell is an older adventurer who bicycled across America and hiked the Appalachian Trail. She asked me how to use effective public speaking to make her talks more exciting.

"How do you open now?" I asked.

"'As I rode my bike slowly into the campground...'" she replied. She continued giving me her typical presentation until she got to a crucial spot in her physical and emotional journey.

"Aha!," I said. I suggested putting her audience right in the middle of her adventure, starting like this: "Imagine you are with me on that September morning in 1999 as the gigantic boulder loomed ahead, blocking the road..."

Then she should continue: "As I faced this boulder, I realized something that you have probably realized. At some point you are going to run into an obstacle. You can climb over it, go around it, or turn back. Your company's boulder isn't literally in the road like mine was. Last year, a major competitor confronted you in the market. "

Then her adventures becomes the story of the audience's. If she overcame her obstacles, they can too. That is effective public speaking!

Engage your audience immediately with a powerful, relevant opening that includes THEM. For example, one of my favorites is, "You have an awesome responsibility." Then fill in what it is: increasing sales, reducing errors, cutting overhead, whatever you are there to help your audience do.

Another effective public speaking strategy is to research information on the company. You can do that through conversations, reading their corporate report, going to their website, checking their stock or visiting one of their stores or buying one of their products.

Then you can say, "Congratulations on your company's recent success," and describe it. Or "I love your new commercials."

For effective public speaking, start by including your audience. Keep a high I/You ratio.

Subject: Public Speaking Skills Training