7 tips for better speaking

 7 tips for better speaking

Here is a recent Constant Contact newsletter from an excellent NSA speaker

Terry Langhans, CSP

link to her video

https://vimeo.com/129065070#t=0s?utm_source=7+Effective+Presentation+Tips&utm_campaign=7+Presentation+Tips&utm_medium=email

Speaker Resources

Speaker Resources

We can all gain from coaches.

We can all gain from coaches.

It may be too soon for a specific coach

at this time for you.

First speak more, and more and more.

Church groups, women's groups, youth groups, scout groups, sororities, etc.

Focus on coming up with 3 speeches

that you truly want to give and begin

giving them wherever and whenever you can.

I started in 1980 giving presentations on

Leading Tools, Styles and Traits

Communication Tools, Styles and Traits

Team Tools, Styles and Traits

Creative Thinking Tools & Techniques, Styles and Traits

During the first year or two while I was still a professor in the Art Department and an adjunct for the School of Environmental Design I spoke for Rotaries, Lions, Kiwanis, Civilian

Institute for Government programs as a concurrent or guest speaker. That led to my working with several other UGA institutes, the Georgia Center and many individual colleges and departments for meetings of theirs

Then the late Walt de Nero asked me to give talks about

Leading and Leading Styles for Community and County Leadership Development Programs for Rome, Georgia, one weekend and the Cartersville, Georgia.

Those two led me to give 350 to 400 of those until 2010 or before.

I have been corresponding today with one of the original Chamber of Commerce Executive Directors that Walt connected me with, John Cox, who was then part-time/volunteer Executive Director for the Paulding County Chamber of Commerce.  He eventually became full-time.  I did his Leadership Paulding Development Kickoff Retreat for 17 years in a row before he moved to the Carolinas.  He is now the Ex Dir at the Naples, Florida Chamber.  We have known each other since the early 80s.

I will gladly be a beginning coach.

Let's talk during our ride into Atlanta and back next week.

Here is my second generation website created by two men I met through

a creative thinking chat group on the original internet before the www

was created. One I have never met who lives in New York state. The other lives

in Sydney, Australia and we have met in person twice: 2001 and 2006 and 

correspond by Facebook or email weekly and sometimes daily.

http://www.cre8ng.com/welcome.shtml

Most coaches I have met and those I have gotten to know through NSA

keep saying....

3 speeches

I always have 4 because I chose to focus on 4 inter-related and inter-dependent topics

Leading

Communicating

Teaming

Cre8ng

Here is a sample page from my 3rd generation website that shares samples of speeches for Cre8ng only.

http://www.cre8ng.com/creativethinking.htm

Earl Nightingale the great motivational speaker and teacher/coach

Earl Nightingale 
the great motivational speaker and teacher/coach

My 1st father-in-law a modestly successful sales person
gave me a 78 rpm copy of Earl Nightingale's

The Strangest Secret

in 1967 or 68

20+ years before I first heard Jim Cathcart speak
and began our friendship.

Earl Nightingale Library

http://www.earlnightingale.com/The_Nightingale_Library.html

borrowed text from the ENL

The Nightingale Library

When Earl Nightingale retired from the company he co-created in 1960, he and I started a new company; one that would take messages of empowerment to people of all ages, around the world. 

I had worked with inner-city teens and The Mental Health Association before meeting and marrying Earl, and I realized that the one major factor in keeping people locked in their present situation was, lack of information.  Information that offers, choice and change.

For too many years, self-help and personal development was offered only to already successful businessmen and written and provided by successful businessmen, with the largest segment of society just being stuck where they were.

My suggestion was to find a way to "unlock doors through education"TM by using, "keys" of accomplishment and information.  So, in 1987, Keys Publishing was formed to take the Nightingale messages to the world.  That was pretty ambitious since the use of personal computers and the internet were still foreign to us.  

Jim Cathcart one of the world's finest speakers and coaches of speakers.

http://procasts.com/experts/jim-cathcart/  

Jim was incoming president of the NSA in 1990 when I went to my first NSA Convention that was held in Atlanta.  I began an NSA professional and personal friendship with him then that has lasted ever since.  A few times when I have been in La Jolla near San Diego we have had lunch together.

He has in addition to this sales trainer PROCAST program an excellent how to become a PROFESSIONAL SPEAKER program.

Watch some of his videos.

He also has done an excellent TED Talk.

http://procasts.com/experts/jim-cathcart/

TED Talk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ki9-oaPwHs

Alan

Robert Alan Black, Ph.D., CSP, DLA, TM: AC-Gold

http://www.cre8ng.com

alan@cre8ng.com

Use TED, TEDX, TM, NSA talks and speeches are teaching tools

Use TED, TEDX, TM, NSA 

talks and speeches are teaching tools

Learn from every speaker you listen to.

great, good, okay, bad, terrible

Perhaps watch one TED or TEDx talk each day Monday to Friday

and take notes about the visual, verbal, physical, emotional aspects

of each one

Or mix TED or TEDx talks with TM talks or NSA speaker Videos.

Not ALL TED or TEDx talk speakers are strong speakers.

What they have in common is their true commitments to their passions.

Learn from you own speaking.

One of the most powerful books in my life about communication

was written by Richard Saul Wurman, one of the 3 co-founders

of the TED Conferences that have led to the TED TALKS and

the TEDx conferences and TEDx talks over the approximately 40 years>

He too was an architect and a graphic designer before 

he became passionate about communication.

Alan

There are MANY, MANY RESOURCES for helping people become better speakers.

There are MANY, MANY RESOURCES 

for helping people become better speakers.

This blog contains some info I have tried to share with many young or beginning speakers since the early 1990s when I was the MENTOR coordinator for my TM 1779 Club in Athens and for the Georgia Speakers Association's Mentor Program (now NSA-Georgia Chapter).

Over the past 35 to 40 years the TED CONFERENCES have become a global phenomenon.

There are over 1,000 TED Talks or TEDx Talks on YouTube and other websites that can be watched and studied.

Many successful and moderately successful professional speakers have written books about SPEAKING.

The NSA - National Speakers Association website has many links to its members websites that include many from hundreds to over a 1,000 sample speech videos to study

Toastmasters, International also has links to many of its contest winners' speeches

plus their own individual websites.

The key for developing your own skills is to start a realistic, workable plan and schedule for your personal and professional development of

Speaking Skills

Platform Skills

Training Skills

Marketing Skills

Promotion Skills

Sales Skills

Client Development & Relationship Skills

Contact Skills

and much more

Here are two examples of the seemingly endless supply of resources to choose from

NSA Speakers such as

Jim Cathcart

Patricia Fripp

and 

many others have books webinars, podcasts, traveling workshops and seminars or intensive BOOT CAMPS and NSA puts on workshops for specialized topics related to speaking and the running of a speaking business in addition to its annual Convention and Winter Workshop.