Public Speaking Courses

The Art of Public Speaking
Our Public Speaking training courses are designed for both the inexperienced presenter or as a refresher for more experienced members of your company or organization. Our Public Speaking Courses are offered in all major US cities and across Canada. All public speaking courses are limited to 10 participants which will give you all the face to face time and practice exercises you need with our senior executive training team. Our one day Public Speaking Course delivers over 5 videoed class room exercises per participant.
 

Our public speaking training courses promises to eliminate your fear or inexperience in public speaking and will dramatically improve your speaking skills whether you are persuading, educating, or informing your audience. Our highly interactive public speaking courses focus on professional business communication including preparation, structure, delivery, and strategy, use of visual aids, and handling questions & answers. Contact us today by phone at 713-627-7700 or via email: service@publicspeakingtraining.net

Public Speaking Course: Four Ways To Show Your Audience That You Hate Them

Giving a great public speaking speech is one thing, understanding how to not give a bad public speaking speech can be something completely different. Lots of self-help books, trainers, and blogs will show you a 1,000 different ways to become a better speaker, but maybe what you really need is some suggestions on what you should NOT be doing?

Don't Back The Truck Up

You know that beeping sound that large trucks make when they are backing up and getting ready to unload whatever they happen to be carrying? At no point in time during one of your public speaking speeches should your audience ever hear this sound.

As a presenter, hopefully you've done some research to get ready to deliver your public speaking speech. You've probably made a lot of notes, sorted through them, and created a public speaking speech based on all of the information that you had collected. Stop right there.

There's not an audience out there that's going to be secretly hoping that you'll take more time than you've been given. If you try to pack everything that you know into your public speaking speech, then you're going to overwhelm your audience (it's like dumping the contents of that truck onto them).

Instead, you need to take the time to sort through everything that you've collected and pick out only the most important pieces that will be needed to help you make your point. Your audience will thank you for it when you are done.

Provide An Opportunity For Nap Time

I have nothing but fond memories of nap time back in the day when I was but a wee toddler. However, I've grown up and I hate it when a presenter clicks off the lights and then starts to present a boring presentation.

As a speaker you need to consider the total environment that you are going to be giving your public speaking speech in. Is it early morning and folks are not yet fully awake? Is it just after lunch and everyone is going to be settling in and, if you're not careful, nodding off?

With the arrival of projectors that are brighter than the ones that we used to have to rely on, turning off the lights in the room in which you are speaking isn't done nearly as often as it used to be. However, when it is done, you need to gage your audience's attentiveness and boost your energy to make up for any loss of energy on their part.

Tell A Story - The Wrong Way

A public speaking speech is simply a set of words that you want to say to your audience in order to create a result. Since giving an effective public speaking speech can be quite difficult, a lot of speakers like to write out their public speaking speeches so that when the big day comes, they can be assured that they'll get their words right. There's no problem in doing this.

The problems start to show up when that speaker starts to read his / her notes or, even worse, starts to read the slides that are being displayed to the audience word-for-word. Look, we can read too. If that's how you are going to deliver a public speaking speech, you may as well print out your slides, hand them out, and then we can skip the whole sitting and listening to you thing.

Wing It

If you were going to bake a cake, would you just show up in the kitchen, throw some stuff together and hope for the best? I suspect not. Then why would you ever show up to give a public speaking speech without having taken the time to properly prepare?

Just like a professional athlete speakers need to prepare for the "big game". No matter how good you think that you are, practice will make you even better. Taking the time to try everything out first will give you an opportunity to fine tune your public speaking speech and this is exactly what it takes to go from being an amateur to being a pro.

What All Of This Means For You

Becoming a good speaker (nay, a great speaker) requires you to understand what it takes to give a great public speaking speech. At the same time, you need to understand what you need to not be doing while you speak.

Avoiding mistakes such as providing too much information, allowing your audience to take a nap, reading your slides to your audience, or not practicing is the key to delivering a great public speaking speech.

Great speakers know that they need to do the right things and not do the wrong things. Avoid these four mistakes and you'll be firmly on the path to speaking greatness.

Dr. Jim Anderson: link

Subject: Public Speaking Course