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Effective Speaking Bullet Points

The "The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking" by Dale Carnegie is broken into a few major sections, each having it's own comprehensive summary of main points.

These section summaries are significant enough that I thought they deserved their own post. So, here they are.


  • Acquiring the Basic Skills
    • Take Heart from the experience of others
    • Keep your goal before you
    • Predetermine your mind to success
    •  Seize every opportunity to practice
  • Developing Confidence
    • Get the facts about fear of speaking in public
    • Prepare in the proper way
      • Never memorize a talk word for word
      • Assemble and arrange your ideas beforehand
      • Rehearse your talk with your friends
    • Predetermine your mind to success
      • Lose yourself n your subject
      • Keep your attention off negative stimuli
      • Give yourself a pep talk
    • Act confident
  • Speaking Effectively the Quick and Easy Way
    • Speak about something you have earned the right to talk about through experience or study
      • Tell us what life has taught you
      • Look for topics in your background
    • Be sure you are excited about your subject
    • Be eager to share your talk with your listeners
  • Earning the Right to Talk
    • Limit your subject
    • Develop reserve power
    • Fill your talk with illustrations and examples
      • Humanize your talk
      • Personalize your talk by using names
      • Be specific--fill your talk with detail
      • Dramatize your talk by using dialogue
      • Visualize by demonstrating what you are talking about
    • Use concrete, familiar words that create pictures
  • Vitalizing the Talk
    • Choose subjects you are earnest about
    • Relive the feelings you have about your topic
    • Act in earnest
  • Sharing the Talk with the Audience
    • Talk in terms of your listeners' interests
    • Give honest, sincere appreciation
    • Identify yourself with the audience
    • Make your audience a partner in your talk
    • Play yourself down
  • Making the Short Talk to Get Action
    • Give your example, an incident from your life
      • Build your example upon a single personal experience
      • Start your talk with a detail of your example
      • Fill your example with relevant detail
      • Relieve your experience as you relate it
    • State your point, what you want the audience to do
      • Make the point brief and specific
      • Make the point easy for listeners to do
      • State the point with force and conviction
    • Give the reason or benefit the audience may expect
      • Be sure the reason is relevant to the example
      • Be sure to stress one reason--and one only
  • Making the Talk to Inform
    • Restrict your subject to fit the time at your disposal
    • Arrange your ideas in sequence
    • Enumerate your points as you make them
    • Compare the strange with the familiar
      • Turn a fact into a picture
      • Avoid technical terms
    • Use visual aids
  • Making the Talk to Convince
    • Win confidence by deserving it
    • Get a Yes-Response
    • Speak with contagious enthusiasm
    • Show respect and affection for your audience
    • Begin in a friendly way
  • Making Impromptu Talks
    • Practice impromptu speaking
    • Be mentally ready to speak impromptu
    • Get into an example immediately
    • Speak with animation and force
    • Use the principle of the here and now
    • Don't talk impromptu--give an impromptu talk
  • Delivering the Talk
    • Crash through your shell of self-consciousness
    • Don't try to imitate others--be yourself
    • Converse with your audience
    • Put your heart int your speaking
    • Practice making your voice strong and flexible
  • Introducing Speakers, Presenting and Accepting Awards
    • Thoroughly prepare what you are going to say
    • Follow the T-I-S formula
    • Be enthusiastic
    • Be warmly sincere
    • Thoroughly prepare the talk of  presentation
    • Express your sincere feelings in the talk of acceptance
  • Organizing the Longer Talk
    • Get attention immediately
      • Begin your talk with an incident--Example
      • Arose suspense
      • State an arresting fact
      • Ask for a show of hands
      • Promise to tell the audience how they can get something they want
      • Use an exhibit
    • Avoid getting unfavorable attention
      • Do not open with an apology
      • Avoid the "funny" story opening
    • Support your main ideas
      • Use statistics
      • Use the testimony of experts
      • Use analogies
      • Use a demonstration with or without an exhibit
    • Appeal for action
      • Summarize
      • Ask for action
  •  Applying what You have Learned
    • Use specific detail in everyday conversation
    • Use effective speaking techniques in your job
    • Seek opportunities to speak in public
    • You must persist
    • Keep the certainty of reward before you

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