How To Become A Successful Speaker & Presenter E-Book

Surender Dogra Nirdosh

• Herausgeber: V&S Publishers
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

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Effective speaking - What works & what not before audience

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“There is nothing in the world like a-persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.”

- Mark Twain

“Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.”

–Dale Carnegie

“A good speaker is pointed and impassioned.”

–Marcus Tulius Cicero(Writer, politician and great Roman speaker)

“First, learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.”

–Epictetus, Greek philosopher

“He that speaks much is much mistaken.”

–Benjamin Franklin

“It is delivery that makes the speakers success.”

–Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe(German poet, novelist and dramatist)

“Grasp the subject, the words will follow.”

–Marcus Porcius Cato(The Elder), Roman diplomat

“If you have an important point to make, do not try to be subtle or clever. Use the pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time; a tremendous whack.”

–Winston Churchill

Contents

It’s Easy to be a Good Speaker

A new way

Speakers are not born with skill, they nurture it

It is important to be determined

Passion acts as a magic lamp

An easy task

Fear is the Enemy of Success

The Importance of Deep Breathing

The Power of Knowledge

What We Learnt

Fear and Stress

How to Remain Stress-free?

The Magic of Belief

Be Prepared

Let your inner self Speak

Practice in front of your friends

Understand your subject

Trust in what you do

Self Confidence – A key to Success

Know Yourself

Use of Hand Gesture

Civilised Behaviour

The way to overcome your discomfort

Success Mantras

Self-Realisation

Be punctual

The power of truth

Criticism

Praise

Add the ‘reality’ factor

Enthusiasm

Successful and Easy Speech

Enunciation

Use your experiences

Informative Speech

Inspirational Speech

Explanatory Speech

Welcome Speech

Practice speaking

Prepare multiple speeches on one topic

Main Stages of a Speech

Try to create an impact

Gather maximum knowledge

Good Memory

Eye Contact

Where and how are the listeners sitting?

Stay in front of the audience

Address everybody rather than the crowd

How should a Speech be?

Use appropriate techniques

Limit your topic

Go deep into the subject

Make yourself a storehouse of knowledge

Meet people from the same field of subject

Be ready for an emergency

Discover something new in your subject

Difference between written and spoken language

Do not mug-up your speech

Keep the speech interesting

Include real life incidents

When to start preparing?

Main Points in a Speech

Give importance to interests of listeners

Speech related to increase in income

Importance of emotions in a speech

Importance of happiness in a speech

Importance of affection in a speech

Importance of entertainment in a speech

Speech and health

Make your Speech rich

Selection of a topic

Beautification of a speech

A good beginning

Help of humour

Create interest in the topic

Gather information from several sources

Be passionate

Do not be sarcastic

Prepare the outline

Main parts of the speech

Practice your speech well

Importance of time

Language of the speech

Effective voice

Effective Speech and its Presentation

Give Importance to time

Observe activities of your listeners

Give valuable suggestions

Try getting positive answers

Give your own example

Enhance your Memory

Use Accumulated Knowledge

Use Appropriate Tools

Preface

I have written this book keeping the Indian audience in mind. I want to assure you that you have the potential to achieve your goal, and at the same time, I would like to congratulate you for choosing this book because this is the one which will take you to your success. I am confident and can guarantee that you can become a great speaker if you adopt all the techniques described in this book. I assure you that you will enjoy your speech as much as you will enjoy reading this book.

Speakers are not born great; they undergo a lot of training to become good speakers. As it is rightly said: ‘Practice makes a man perfect’. They learn the techniques and work hard so that they are able to deliver a good and attractive speech. Working hard is the foremost and most commendable and authentic way to get success because hard work has no alternative.

In Western countries, people have compiled and composed a lot of literature on ‘how to become a good speaker’. However, these books do not suit the Indian audience. I have prepared this first of its kind book after a good deal of research and dedication. My family has sacrificed a lot for the book. In the process of creating this book, I often stayed away from them. You are reading the book today only because of their sacrifice and support.

I am very grateful to the girl because of whom I stepped into the world of writing. I am grateful to that girl, whom I treat as my sister. She has appreciated me at every point and helped me convert my thinking to literature. I would also like to thank those people also who criticised me as they inspired me to enhance my personality through their criticism.

I would be happy if this book helps you in anyway. If that happens, I would think I achieved my goal.

Surendra Dogra ‘Nirdosh’

It’s Easy to be a Good Speaker

Many people and leaders in the world became great, as they were good speakers besides being knowledgeable. Today, the speeches of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Winston Churchill and John Kennedy are equally remembered as are their achievements. An effective speaker not only presents and establishes himself but also inspires many others in their professional and personal life. I have committed many mistakes in my life and surmounted many problems to become successful. My aim of writing this book is that I do not want you to repeat those mistakes; in fact I don’t want anybody to do the same mistakes I did. I guess the techniques given in this book will save your time and lead you in the right way so that you can become a good speaker. However, before presenting to you the basic concepts of how to become a good speaker I would like to congratulate you for choosing the right book as you will be able to get the success of a particular thing when it comes to action with a good start. As it is rightly said, ‘Well begun is half done’, which implies – a good start means half of your work is done.

If you want to get maximum benefit out of this book, you should make yourself believe that I have written this book only for you. Forget that someone else or many more are also reading this book at the time when I say I write this book for ‘YOU’. When I use the word ‘YOU’, it points towards you, only you, that is, the one who is reading the book at that time. You must have seen some people talking very effectively and confidently, whether they are at a friend’s place or are travelling in a bus or a train. But let me tell you honestly that their (most of them) voice, legs and hands will start shivering if they will be asked to address a public gathering. While working with the Akashvani radio, I have seen women, who can talk endlessly, falling short of words when I tried to record their conversation or tried to put them in front of a microphone. Have you ever thought why people are not able to speak in front of a crowd? You might think of the following reasons:

One reason, you might think that you cannot speak well like a good speaker. Second, maybe, whether your voice will reach every person sitting in the room or not. Thirdly, you might think that your thoughts are inferior to the people sitting there and that they might laugh at your views.

To be confident, you need to believe that you can deliver a good, attractive and well-organised speech, but at the same time, you should keep in mind and honestly realise that there is still a lot to improve on your part. If you move forward keeping all these things in mind and adopting all the techniques mentioned in the book, I reassure that you will be a good speaker. That is, you will not be afraid of putting your views in front of people and deliver a well-organised speech. You might have a little fear but believe me, a little bit of fear is necessary to get the optimum success. However, you can get rid of it if you wish.

We develop our knowledge according to our experiences but we usually do not know or perhaps don’t even want to know the basic principles of many things. I have an example here to make you understand the statement better. One of my friends was an extremely good player of Skiing.

She participated in many national level games and in 1999 she went to Korea for participating in the Asiad representing India. I have never seen her practicing regularly and quite efficiently. But one interesting thing I notice is that she used to compete with the people who taught her the game and always beat them. When I asked her the reason behind playing with her teachers, she said that you should have the knowledge of the basic principles of the game; in that case, you will never play wrong even if you loose.

The same method is applicable in the process to become a good speaker. Once you start understanding and grasping the basic principles of delivering a speech, you will never deliver a bad speech or will never make a mistake during delivering a speech. But it does not mean that you assume it to be an easy task. This is a difficult but a possible thing to do. People have different opinions about being a good speaker. Every teacher wants his/her student to become a good speaker but not every speaker wants to be Abraham Lincoln or perhaps they don’t try to become Abraham Lincoln. But frankly speaking my friend, delivering a good speech is very important in the modern day competitive world. You feel the importance and usability of a well-designed speech in each and every step of your life. If you want to do something on your own, to develop your self-confidence, to attract people and to affect or to even make your presence in the world, you will definitely need the art of delivering a good speech and it will be more convenient and easier for you to enjoy a successful life if you adopt the techniques at the early stage of your life. So be prepare to face the life and get victory in the fight with life with the techniques you are going to grasp and practice while reading this book.

A new way

While writing this book I adopt a special style so that it does not make you bore at any point of your reading. You’ll realise that I have not filled the book with many anecdotes, humourous stories or speeches of great writers. However, it is a good and most effective way of filling pages, but my motive is not to just write a book, but to bring a change within you. My aim is to take out the flaws within you to make you a good speaker.

You might have come across some people saying that you will have to read autobiographies of some great people and will have to follow their footsteps to become successful. But I don’t agree to this at all. I think rather than imitating others, you should have the passion to do something in your unique way. There is a possibility that you might not be able to write or create ‘great’ phrases and poems as created by great people like Kalidas, Kabir and Shakespeare, but one thing is sure that you can become a ‘good’ poet or scholar if you try hard with dedication. Similarly, it is sure that you will become a good speaker after reading this book, if not a ‘great’ speaker like Abraham Lincoln And let the world remember you as a good speaker. What is wrong about that? After grasping the necessary techniques to become a good speaker, you will see that the door of success gets open for you to enter. Once we force our students to read the excellent literature composed by some great people, it bears no fruits; it is of no use. We do not get the desired results because if we ‘force’ them to read the works of great personalities. After some time they will lose interest. Similarly, we cannot achieve success in a subject if we are not interested to them.

Speakers are not born with skills, they nurture it

I have heard in fairytales that a fairy spins her magic wand over a child and then no diabolical power can harm the child for his entire life. If I ever happen to see a fairy giving a newborn baby the power to become a good speaker, only then I will believe that good speakers are inborn.

We come across many good speakers in our life, but it does not mean that they become good speakers at the very first attempt. Maybe, they tried very hard to deliver speeches in the past and faced failure for so many times. But they never gave up. They started of fresh and then never looked back. They took a lot of time to improve themselves and gradually became an effective and successful speaker.

I was 11 years old when I delivered my first speech in my school. I had a very good topic to deliver lecture on. My language was easy and effective and the way I presented the speech was right. I was happy as I got the first prize but my teachers noticed my shivering legs during the speech. After that, the teachers encouraged me so much that till the time I was in school, I made sure that no one else won any such competition. My teacher gave me a ‘mantra’, which today I am going to give you. My teacher told me that whenever you go for delivering a speech, just think that the people sitting in front of you are dupes and you are the only wise person in the room. This will help you in delivering your speech without hesitation. This mantra gave me a lot of confidence and I witnessed its result for so many times.