Our public speaking teacher didn’t like debates. She said they taught people to think on their feet but they didn’t really express feelings. She said good public speakers felt passionately about their subject. I was doubtful about this at first but she was right. When people loved their subject their speeches were so much better. She then went on to say we couldn’t always speak about something we loved but we could take an angle about something, develop it and then begin to feel strongly about it. We spent hours between classes looking up subjects in the library, this was in the days before the internet, and asking people their opinion on topics.
She insisted that we listened to the radio too. So, as a city based group, we dutifully listened to agricultural reports in case she asked us to speak about the market for pigs. We listened to religious programmes and topical programmes. She made us criticise those speakers we heard, telling her how and why they made mistakes. In other words she opened up our minds and told us listen and learn.

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I looked for classes that would help me become a public speaker… I enrolled in a speech and drama class. The teacher spoke as though she was in the Royal Shakespeare society and did lots of reading with us. We learned to speak in parts. To this day I can recite three of the verses of the twelve days of Christmas. I have discovered, however, that the need for this is rather limited in the real world

So I decided to try another class. I joined a public speaking group this time. It was a once weekly night class. Our teacher was Hungarian and her command of English was brilliant. She was kind and understanding and began by asking us to introduce ourselves
and to say why we were doing the course. That was my introduction to the fascinating world of public speaking.

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It took me six years to become a public speaker and much longer to become a speech-writer.

Like most people I rarely had occasion to speak in public. Occasionally, when I was at school meetings I would have liked to have asked a question but was too shy. I hated myself for that but, usually, someone else asked the question anyhow. When I was asked to give a report on some parish work I had done I didn’t really consider it as public speaking. I had enjoyed the work and I knew everyone in the room for years. Yet when I stood up my confidence vanished. I stuttered and stammered. My hands shook so much I dropped my notes and to my huge embarrassment, I started to cry. My friends were very nice and understanding but I swore that would never happen to me again. I would, however long it took, become a public speaker.

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Recently, in the guise of researching motivational speeches, I came across some great info on integrity and speaking your truth. This is a little more than speaking your mind, for the more emphatic of you out there. Integrity it seems comes from the inside and is smelted right in the core. As a result ‘being true to thy self’, means not only do you mean what you say, but that people will actually believe you. I think for the public speaker, there can be no better foundation. Quite something in this cynical day and age. In case you are worried, it is entirely possible to regain your integrity. That’s a bit of a relief then, eh? Our motivational speech on doing just that will shortly be available on speechwriters.com

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Actions and the words that inpsire them. If actions speak louder than words, then how come Marcel Marceau is not fondly remembered as a wonderful public speaker?
The truth is we need words, directions, ideas and inspiration to spur us onto action. This is why a good speech is so important. You really have to use words and good words to motivate people to do things. Indeed it is the ‘doing’ that counts, but it is your words that start the ball rolling. Inspire, inspire, inspire! Go set the world on fire.

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Going down (I’d like to know when it was ever up) in popularity according to the New Zealand Sunday Star Times magazine this week are Interminable speeches. I quote ‘If public speaking is our greatest human phobia - why is it so hard to get the speakers off?’

The public speakers obvioulsy have to yet discover this blog. Better still hire a speech writer.

I read somewhere too that some people rate their fear of speaking next to their fear of death itself. Well at least that is putting some perspective on the matter. After all, you’re a long time dead. If anyone out there has a worst speech story or scenario, send it in and we can set up a file for the best or worst cases.

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