Public Speaking Seminars

The Art of Public Speaking Seminars
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: Humor Is a Big Help in Public Speaking Seminars - Or What I Learned From Being Naked

One of the most entertaining, informative and fun books I've ever read on public speaking is Ron Hoff's "I Can See You Naked." The title is a play on the stereotypical advice to picture people in the audience in their underwear. Somehow that image will be so vile as to distract the speaker from what has been called the greatest fear of mankind, speaking in public.

Hoff's advice instead is more relaxing and relevant. He says that the audience wants you to succeed, and hopes you know something it does not! So we should speak with the same naturalness that we would use in everyday casual conversations. Our manner should be easy enough that people don't see how we are talking; they are conscious only of the things we are saying. One tip Hoff gives to increase our comfort is to imagine that every one of the members of the audience owed you money. Imagine that they do. (And if you become a paid speaker, this will be true). Imagine that they have assembled to beg you for an extension of credit.

Humor can help us create this comfort we can feel while speaking in front of an audience. Humor relies on us knowing and accepting the truth of ourselves. We know our flaws, our triumphs, our fears and our shame. And we are not being afraid to put those on display. While living a humorous lifestyle, we have no secrets to keep. We are not afraid of being "found out" because we have already exposed our shortcomings and converted them into humorous material for our speeches. It's a no-lose situation. Sound easy enough?

Not quite. Experts say it takes weeks, sometimes years, to understand and effectively use one's style of humor. It takes not only practice, but an intuiting of the types of things we say that elicit a positive response in others. We have to get out of the habit of thinking that only a certain type of person can be funny.

Once we've faced our limitations and foibles, we are free to use them in our humor. Self-deprecating humor is one of the most effective forms of humor. The audience will feel good-that they are not you. Once you have mastered the skill of the speaking act, you have one less thing to worry about. Your material of your speech will flow naturally, as long as it is something you are interested in. One of my comedy writing teachers, Dave Schwensen, told me that if I am interested in what I'm saying, my audience will be interested, too. And if we're not interested in what we're saying, maybe we should just write a letter instead.

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