Create a Pre-Public Speech Checklist to Fully Prepare

 

Like an air craft pilot preparing for take-off with checklist in hand, a speaker's preparation standards must include a checklist of all the steps, items and needs that are estimated much before that presentation. Sound preparation itself makes for a confident speaker.

 

Practice Your Speech in Front of a Live Camera NOT in Front of a Mirror

 

A mirror causes you to introvert and that is very counter-productive. Record your speech as practice and use that camera as a quality control measure when you playback the speech and recognize points to correct. It is a far better means to allow improvement to occur. Stay extroverted!

 

Observe Your Audience As You Speak and Listen to Them

 

You will learn more about your audience and discover better ways to connect and inspire them by being receptive to their thoughts, feelings, responses and needs overall.

 

Outwardly Express Correct Emotion and Physicality

 

It is not enough to feel the emotion of your own message. Your audience needs to feel it, sense it and be moved by the emotional impact of your message. Speakers, like performing artists, outwardly express emotion and physicality to move their audiences and inspire them. I like to drench my audiences with this key factor. Oh yes!! and by the way, that is the real reason they came in to see you.

 

Use Benefit Statements to Cultivate Audience Reach

 

What's in it for me...or as it is said WIIFM. This is the key in focusing on your audience needs and wants and how what you provide offers value and help to your audience. Thus, they will hear you, respond to you and connect what you deliver to a solution they hope they will get from you. Stick to benefits instead of features of your product or service and you will win your audience over.

 

Visual Aids are Mostly Visual with Minimal Copy

 

Do not have the visual or power point talk for you. Your direct communication should never be upstaged or placed in the background. Make your slides or handouts visually represent your message and avoid information overload by using minimal copy and an enhanced visual that supports your key point.

 

Never End Your Speech on a Q & A Period

 

It is anti-climactic to do so. You want your conclusion to build with compelling inspiration right through to the call to action and leave your audience riveted on wanting more. A Q & A period squashes that. Put it before the ending or at a time you can answer the question one on one.

 

These are just a few. For the entirety of the No Fear Speaking method go to www.amazon.com or www.nofearspeaking.com  

 

Joe Yazbeck,

President Prestige Leadership Advisors

Author, No Fear Speaking
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