Daily Preparation
Being an
effective communicator also requires certain amount of consistent preparation.
Like singing and dancing, public speaking is also a skill to be developed on a
continuous basis. This is more so when you want to be a professional speaker. A
professional singer practices singing every day. Periodically he updates his
skill and looks forward to the next opportunity to apply something he learnt
recently.
This principle
applies to a professional speakers also.
The following
tips may be useful:
- Attend
to as many public speaking events as possible. Keep watching the talk
shows on television. Observe how a news readers delivers the news watching
the diction and pronunciation.
- Keep
collecting short stories to be included in your speech. Make a flash card
or have it handy on you iPad.
- Collect
as many jokes as possible and have them readily accessible. You can
categorise them as students jokes, doctors joke, lawyers jokes etc.
- Update
your language proficiency on a regular basis improving grammar, idioms and
phrases, metaphors, similes etc.
- Improve
your listening skill so that you can meet the arguments in a group
discussion or debate etc.
Remember that
unless you have the passion, you will not do the above!
NC Sridharan
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