Communication and Leadership Program
- To begin speaking before an audience
- To discover speaking skills you already have and skills that need some
attention
- TIME: Four to six minutes
- Select an appropriate outline which allows listerners to easily follow
and understand your speech
- Make your message clear with supporting material directly contributing
to that message
- Use appropriate transitions when moving from one idea to another
- Create a strong opening and conclusion
- TIME: five to seven minutes
- Select a speech topic and dermine its general and specific purposes
- Organize the speech in a manner that best achieves those purposes
- Ensure the beginning, body and conclusion reinforce the purpose
- Project sincerity and conviction and control any nervousness you may feel
- Strive not to use notes
- TIME: Five to seven minutes
- Select the right words and sentence structure to communicate your ideas
clearly, accurately and vivdly
- Use rhetorical devices to enhance and emphasize ideas
- Eliminate jargon and uncecessary words. Use correct grammar.
- TIME: Five to seven minutes
- Use stance, movement, gestures, facial expressions and eye contact to express
your message and achieve your speech's pupose
- Make your body language smoothe and natural
- TIME: Five to seven minutes
- Use voice volume, pitch, rate and quality to reflect and add meaning and interest to your message
- Use pauses to enhance your message
- Use vocal variety smoothly and naturally
- TIME: Five to seven minutes
- Collect information about your topic from numerous sources
- Carefully support your points and opinions with specific facts, examples
and illustrations gathered through research
- TIME: Five to seven minutes
- Select visual aids that are appropriate for your message and the audience
- Use visual aids correctly with ease and confidence
- TIME: Five to seven minutes
- Persuade listners to adopt your viewpoint or ideas or to take some action
- Appeal to the audience's interest
- Use topic and emotion to support your position
- Avoid using notes
- TIME: Five to seven minutes
- To inspire the audience by appealing to your noble motives and challenging
the audience to achieve a higher level of beliefs or achievement
- Appeal to the audience's needs and emotions, using stories, anecdotes and
quotes to add drama
- TIME: Eight to ten minutes
