Robert Graham is an excellent model for aspiring public speakers.
He teaches the fundamentals of great public speaking and presentation skills and displays in this video a number of useful and funny techniques that you can use immediately.
Roberts Presentations, Keynotes, and Workshops include:
Increase Your Confidence When Selling & Presenting
Increase Sales and Revenues
Enhance Your Profile Inside & Outside Your Firm
Conquer the Fear of Public Speaking
Deliver Compelling Sales Presentations
Effectively Lead Meetings with Clients and Colleagues
Minimize the fear and reluctance to selling
Improve public speaking skills
Create relationships and establish trust – genuinely
Today, public speaking is more about the conveying of ideas and less about the speaker. The attention of the audience is caught by the information and ideas rather than the elocution and performance of the speaker.
If you are new to public speaking and presenting it is an anxiety inducing prospect. This is an entirely normal response. Conquering the “barrier of public speaking anxiety” is an important step in career and business advancement – many an opportunity is lost because of a hesitancy to start.
The ideas expressed here will get you on the first steps towards public speaking and presenting to groups mastery, so that you can obtain the benefits of being an effective speaker at your workplace and business or even as a professional speaker.
Proper Preparation and Presentation Necessary
Master the subject you are to present, be as knowledgeable as you can. It is important that you are convinced about your ideas and information so that you can presently forthrightly and with enthusiasm. If you have not mastered your subject you can not hope to master your audience and speak with conviction.
The material you present should be thoroughly prepared but also personal, because to present it effectively at a management meeting or to present to a group convincingly it is important to put yourself into your talk.
Fighting Your Fright
The first real lesson in public speaking is gathering up the confidence to try. A speaker must realise that it is not the audience he fears but themselves. Your listeners will typically want you to succeed and will be supportive towards you.
It is a normal human anxiety that is faced by most speakers when they first start. Experienced speakers can still suffer with “nerves” but they may refer to it as anticipation and use it as motivation to deliver an effective speech. By careful preparation and practice you will add to your self-confidence. The better prepared you are the more self-confident you will be when delivering your speech.
Persistence Pays Off
Public speaking and presenting, more than any other human activity is learned by doing and improved with practice.
Any normal person can become a successful public speaker by being natural and working at it on a consistent and regular basis.
Be Brief
Your first appearance need only be brief – it may only involve stating your name and occupation. Use something like “This is my maiden appearance before an audience and frankly I’m scared stiff. My name is….and my business is……..
Invite Feedback
Find someone of experience to evaluate your speech and ask for feedback. Their observations if implemented will greatly help in improving your public speaking skills.
Public speaking today is in the grasp of people who are prepared to take the first step. It is about the effective conveying of ideas not about a polished performance with little or nothing to say. The advantages of confident speaking are many and are in the grasp of those willing to take that first step.
You might be surprised but the fear of public speaking is one of the greatest causes of panic attacks. It’s almost ridiculous to think that basically some people would rather be in a coffin than reading a eulogy. For people who suffer fear of public speaking, the anticipation of the event can lead to panic attacks weeks or months before.
Such fear of public speaking may be as basic as a meeting with the office- not necessarily on a podium giving a speech. The fear of public speaking and panic attacks in this case is based on having an attack in the middle of the talk. The person imagines being stuck for words, and being forced to flee the office, much to the amazement of fellow workers.
There is a difference between having a fear of public speaking because of suffering panic attacks, and just a general shyness of speaking in public.
The question is how does someone tackle fear of public speaking? Read more →
How do you speak naturally while all those people are watching you?
This document covers hints and tips on public speaking and presentation skill, dealing with public speaking nerves and anxiety, public speaking skills and public speaking techniques, public speaking training.
Common Fears of Public Speaking
What happens when you have to speak in public?
Did you know that public speaking tops the list of phobias for most people? Not spiders or heights – public speaking – speech in public!
Well, if you didn’t know that, we bet your body does. It will do all kinds of unpleasant things to you when you have to stand up and face a sea of faces with the hope of getting your message across in a compelling and interesting way.
Your hands may sweat and your mouth goes dry. Your knees may shake and a quaver affects your voice. Your heart may race and those well known butterflies invade your stomach.
When all that happens most people don’t think of getting their message across in a compelling and interesting way; they just think of getting off the ‘stage’ as quickly as possible!
Have we frightened you sufficiently yet?
It’s normal
We don’t really mean to frighten you, just remind you that your body reacts ‘in extremis’ when put under pressure, and for most people, public speaking is just about the worst pressure they can be put under.
It’s normal to be nervous and have a lot of anxiety when speaking in public. In a way, it’s less normal not to have nerves or anxiety; in fact, to feel you have a phobia about public speaking. Read more →
During a recent internet marketing workshop, I discussed a new communication technology, video email.
Originally posted to my Business Training Resource Blog, in this video I display an actual video email that I sent to a client and take a few questions from the audience.
It is interesting that, even though the audience could read the punchlines in the charts, they laughed the most when it was explained to them.
Great fun and lots of useful learning.
One thing I re-learned is that hand drawing charts is very labor intensive. I sketched out the chart first on paper, then transferred it to the chart. It took many hours and nearly the whole pad. PowerPoint is way easier!
In this video of a recent speech project, I am attempting a number of things.
First – I am completing an advanced Toastmasters speech, “The Sales Training Speech.” In this project I talk about a new selling methodology called, “Masterstream.” Also, I have one more speech after this one and I’ll have my ATB (Advanced Communicator Bronze)
Second – I am using a new non-linear presentation technology called “Prezi.” See www.prezi.com
Finally – because of the limitations of my camera’s lighting management, the presentation was washed out on the screen. I re-recorded the Prezi presentation and placed it in a “picture-in-picture” on top of the screen in the video.
I covered a lot of different learnings with this one.
Now that the barriers to online video have fallen, many different channels are available to archive and distribute video. This can be a fun thing for individuals and a GREAT marketing opportunity for businesses. It is one of the new media tools that I now promote for businesses and professionals and an easy skill to pick up (even faster when you hire someone like me to show you how!)
Traditional marketing tools are still effective as well and when combined with new media, can compliment and enhance each other.
Over the years, I’ve shot video of many of my speeches and presentations, but never did much with them (other than harshly criticize the content and watch my hair disappear.) So now that I have all this video and many channels, I’ll start posting them.
Here’s a recent speech I did for the Princeton Toastmasters International Speech Contest. I won at the club level and didn’t place at the next contest. I have that video too and I’ll post a critique of the differences in the two speeches in my next post.
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