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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