The Ten Steps | The Ten Assignments
Step 1: Preliminary Planning
Learn how to identify the style of speech, create a Mind Map, research your audience and determine the essence of what you want to say or the Central Theme of your speech.
Step 2: Know the Basics
This will give you the knowledge to structure a speech, which is the introduction, body of the speech and the conclusion. This chapter also gives you some pointers in finding the right resource material.
Step 3: The Construction
You have the plans, you have the materials, you will learn in this chapter how to put them all together.
Step 4: 'Do it Your Way'
Realise the benefits of being true to yourself in your language, gestures and appearance. Read the audience’s body language to help your performance.
Step 5: How to Speak Powerfully
Why you need to use plain English. How to bring the speech to life with pace, texture and pause. How rehearsing the speech will give you confidence.
Step 6: Managing Stage Fright
Find out why we get performance anxiety and how to develop strategies to cope with this.
Step 7: Connecting with the Audience
Use eye contact for positive approbation. Find out how to deal with a difficult or hostile audience and how to manage question time.
Step 8: Voice Matters
Learn how to breathe properly for better voice production and aids for improving your articulation. It provides advice on taking care of your voice, especially if you have laryngitis.
Step 9: Using Audiovisual Equipment
This chapter provides the basic knowledge on how to use a variety of microphones, overhead projector, writing on a whiteboard or butchers paper, using a teleprompter and how present a dynamic PowerPoint presentation.
Step 10: Be Professional
This chapter will provide you with the why and how of becoming more professional in all your speaking opportunities.
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