The document discusses public speaking and provides tips to improve. It notes that public speaking can build confidence and skills but is disliked due to lack of preparation, unfamiliarity with audiences and spaces. The document recommends taking small steps like practicing, coaching and having audience support to get better. Specific tips include getting familiar with the space, practicing material, gestures and eye contact, and following Lee Iacocca's method of telling the audience the topic, discussing it, and summarizing.
The document discusses public speaking and provides tips to improve. It notes that public speaking can build confidence and skills but is disliked due to lack of preparation, unfamiliarity with audiences and spaces. The document recommends taking small steps like practicing, coaching and having audience support to get better. Specific tips include getting familiar with the space, practicing material, gestures and eye contact, and following Lee Iacocca's method of telling the audience the topic, discussing it, and summarizing.
The document discusses public speaking and provides tips to improve. It notes that public speaking can build confidence and skills but is disliked due to lack of preparation, unfamiliarity with audiences and spaces. The document recommends taking small steps like practicing, coaching and having audience support to get better. Specific tips include getting familiar with the space, practicing material, gestures and eye contact, and following Lee Iacocca's method of telling the audience the topic, discussing it, and summarizing.
The document discusses public speaking and provides tips to improve. It notes that public speaking can build confidence and skills but is disliked due to lack of preparation, unfamiliarity with audiences and spaces. The document recommends taking small steps like practicing, coaching and having audience support to get better. Specific tips include getting familiar with the space, practicing material, gestures and eye contact, and following Lee Iacocca's method of telling the audience the topic, discussing it, and summarizing.
1. To build confidence. It will help you in some job interviews
2. Help organizational skills 3. Expand your experience 4. You will have to do it someday
Why do people dislike public speaking?
1. Not prepared, or talking about something unfamiliar
2. Not used to the audience looking at you 3. Not used to the room
How to get better
1. Small steps: a. Practice b. Coaching c. Audience support
What NOT TO DO when speaking in public:
1. Dont practice in front of a mirror
2. Dont shout 3. Dont stare at the back wall, or imagine the audience naked 4. Dont eat, chew, or have things in your hands to distract the audience 5. Dont tell the audience you are nervous
What TO DO when speaking in public:
1. Get familiar with the place where you will speak
2. Practice your material 3. Practice in front of another person 4. Learn something about your audience 5. Use gestures, pauses, and changes in the volume of voice appropriately 6. Make eye contact often 7. Have a beginning, middle and end to your speech
Lee Iacoccas Public Speaking Method
1. Tell the audience what you are going to talk about
2. Talk about it 3. Summarize what you just talked about