July 22nd, 2010 by Clare Westwood

Speaking in front of a large room is a job that the majority of us will need to under take at some stage of our lives, whether it is in front of colleagues or friends and family. If your breaking out in a cold sweat at the thought of public speaking you may want to take a look at the following tips keeping calm and staying brave during group speaking.

1, Prepare. Make sure that you know your topic, understand the aims and objectives of the speech and be clear of the message that you want to deliver from the start. Be precise with the content of your speech and your message will be clear and a reasonable length, keeping your audience engaged. if you are bored of your speech the likelihood is that your audience will also be bored.

2. Practice Practice, Practice, Practice! In front of the mirror, to your mum. your pets, even tape yourself and listen back. A run through of your speech before the real thing will help you to become familiar with the content and flow of speech. Timing yourself is highly recommended, to ensure that you keep to your time allocation, do you need to leave time for questions?

3. The main attraction Believing in your self is crucial to legendary public speaking, remember that your audience are interested in what you have to say, and will probably find it highly useful and of benefit! Be charming, clever, informative and entertaining

4. Meet and Greet Arrive early to familiarise yourself with your audience, Get to know a few people and the audience will seem less daunting when you are up on the stage. During your speech create eye contact with members of the audience, focus, and interact with your audience.

5. The Speech The time has come for the main event! Take deep breathes, keep calm and relax! Enjoy yourself and don’t speak to fast! Start by entertaining the audience with your introduction, a funny story about the weather perhaps, something that your audience can relate to, then collect your thoughts and begin.

Hopefully these tips will help to prepare yourself for any public speaking you have scheduled, remember to enjoy it! you are the main attraction and you can deliver if you are prepared and confident. Hold your head high and relax, you will be in good company.

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November 1st, 2009 by Scott A. Dennison

I just released a report called “Public Speaking (*as you know it) Is Dead!” that states my view of the last couple of years of the public speaking industry.

If you would like a free copy of the report, you’ll find a link to it in the resource box at the end of this article

The information in the report is just my opinion but the research shows that the facts support it. Also, well-known speakers are agreeing with my conclusions.

I recently received a comment from well-known speaker and author, Jim Cathart, CPAE and Past President of the National Speakers Association, who said this: “Scott Dennison has nailed it. The problem in our business is that it’s not there anymore. The needs are still there and our skills are still valuable, but the ways in which people buy our services has permanently moved. It’s time to go where the buying is happening.”

So what can public speakers do to survive in 2010 and beyond if the old model of public speaking is dead? Here are three tips that will help you.

1) Understand that the new rules apply to every speaker. We’re no longer living in a world when speakers could just present their message, collect a high fee and go home. Since the meetings that require a speaker have been reduced, we all need to have a different approach.

However the audiences who are used to attending meetings and conventions are still hungry for information on your area of expertise. They want to access your specific knowledge and are seeking content from you – so give it to them. What this means in short is that you need to think like a publisher or content provider, not just a speaker.

2) Try to find out what audience members loved about your presentation. Was it the information itself? Was it your unique view on your topic? When you understand that, you can attract those who get excited about your topic and build relationships with them.

Because of the Internet, you audience is not limited to those who would or could travel to the convention or meeting where you were presenting your information. Access to your work is now available to people all over the world with the only barrier being that persons access to the Internet. If your material fills a need your content can be distributed everywhere on earth.

Provide content for your users in multi-media formats for them to consume. When you offer your information in video, audio and text based formats you meet the needs of everyone and do it in a way that allows them access in the learning style which they most prefer.

It’s become quite common to take a presentation that was originally recorded in video that later becomes available as audio CDs, transcribed into a book, converted and distributed as articles or even blog posts. While repurposing your video may seem difficult and require a lot of work its very easy and quite profitable to do.

Where perhaps you once needed many many thousands of people to hear you speak to make a nice living, what if you only built relationships with 1000 who each were so passionate about your work that they’d be happy to invest $100 per month each to learn your information? Once you do the math, you’ll quickly conclude that mourning the death of public speaking makes no sense at all.

For a limited time, public speaking expert, Scott A Dennison is offering free Public Speaking Tips and a free copy of his Public Speaking (*as you know it) IS DEAD report Visit the Uber Article Directory to get a totally unique version of this article for reprint.

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