1. MPSSS 1
Welcome to
Effective Public Speaking
Training

2. MPSSS 2
Effective Public Speaking
Prepare your speech
Deliver your speech
Master stage fright
Speak impromptu
Handle question and answer
session
Manage the media

3. MPSSS 3
What do you consider to be
your greatest challenge about
preparing and delivering
speeches?

4. MPSSS 4
Objectives
Learn how to:
Prepare and give a memorable speech
or talk
Think on your feet and handle tough
questions
Control fear of speaking in public
Eliminate annoying speech habits
Make it big in media interviews

5. MPSSS 5
Prepare your Speech I: Get
Started
Define your objectives
Analyze your audience
Gather information

6. MPSSS 6
Define your objectives
Overall goal
Specific purpose
Your Hidden agenda

7. MPSSS 7
Analyze your audience
Gather personal and professional facts
Be aware of attitudes: you, your topic,
being there
Observe their environment: size of the
audience, physical setting
Determine their wants and concerns

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Gather information
Locate sources of information
 Use your experience
 Do library research
 Interview people
 Write and call
 Search the internet
Evaluate and check your findings

9. MPSSS 9
Prepare your Speech II:
Organizing
Structure your information
Support your ideas
Limit your information
Link your ideas

10. MPSSS 10
Structure your information
Introduction
 Attention grabber
 Central theme (Thesis statement)
 Preview

11. MPSSS 11
Body, the heart
 Chronological pattern
 Spatial pattern
 Topical pattern
 Problem-solution pattern

12. MPSSS 12
Body, the heart
 Pros & cons (compare & contrast)
 Current situation and proposed
situation
 Monroe’s motivated sequence
 Bad news pattern

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Conclusion
 Review (summary)
 Specific action
 Final statement

14. MPSSS 14
Support your ideas
Stories (success, personal, anecdotes)
Quotations (expert, peer)
Statistics (don’t spew nos,credible)
Examples (real, hypothetical)
Definitions (dictionary, personal)

15. MPSSS 15
Limit your information
Limit the number of main points
Stay focused on your original objective
Observe your talking speed
Allocate time properly

16. MPSSS 16
Link your ideas
Use connectives:
 Transitions
 Internal previews
 Internal summaries
 signposts

17. MPSSS 17
Select Visual Aids
for Impact
Appropriate
Clear
Consistent
Dynamic

18. MPSSS 18
Deliver your Speech
Select delivery method
Polish your non-verbal skills
Polish your verbal skills
Know your materials
Use rhetoric tricks
Be yourself

19. MPSSS 19
Select delivery method
Memorized
Extemporaneous
Script
Impromptu

20. MPSSS 20
Polish your non verbal skills
Dress professionally
Exhibit physical control
 Your face
 Your hands
 Your feet
 Your space
Above all else, be enthusiastic

21. MPSSS 21
Polish your verbal skills
Speak clearly
 Tone, pitch
 Articulation
 Volume
• Speak expressively
 Pause
 Emphasis
 Speed
• Take care of your voice

22. MPSSS 22
Know your materials
Practice and rehears your speech
Use script & notes with discretion
Manage Visual Aids smoothly

23. MPSSS 23
Use rhetoric tricks
Make great entrance
Make it simple
Repeat, repeat
Use the rule of three
Make your statistics interesting
Don’t mention number of point
Avoid filler words

24. MPSSS 24
Be yourself
You are an expert
You are the one who was asked to
speak

25. MPSSS 25
Master Stage Fright
Understand symptoms of stage fright
Know what causes stage fright
Control stage fright

26. MPSSS 26
Understand symptoms of stage
fright
Dry mouth or extreme opposite
Sweating palms
Trembling hands
Racing heart
Tension in shoulder and neck area
Tremulous sound

27. MPSSS 27
Know what causes
stage fright
Unfamiliar situation
Feeling subordinate to your audience
Sense of isolation
Self consciousness
Fear of looking foolish
Past experience

28. MPSSS 28
Control stage fright
Mental:
 prepare and rehearse
 Visualize success
 Use positive self talk
 Focus on your message not
nervousness

29. MPSSS 29
Control stage fright
Physical
 Take a brisk walk before you speak
 Make relation exercises
 Take deep breath
 Nod and lift your neck
 Yawn (politely of course)

30. MPSSS 30
Handle Question & Answer
session
Know the basics of Q&A session
Encourage questions
Design a perfect answer
Deal with difficult questions
Handle hostile questions

31. MPSSS 31
Know the basics of Q & A
Anticipate questions
Decide when to answer questions
Don’t let a few people dominate
Listen to the question
Repeat the question
Answer the entire audience

32. MPSSS 32
Encourage questions
Plant a question
Ask yourself a question
Answer a question asked in private
Solicit written questions in advance
Ask the audience a question

33. MPSSS 33
Design a perfect answer
Keep it brief
Refer back to your speech
Refer to your experience
Don’t assume you know the answer

34. MPSSS 34
Deal with difficult questions
Yes or no
Forced choice
Hypothetical
Top
False assumption
Implied
Multipart

35. MPSSS 35
Handle hostile questions
Rephrase the questions
Empathize
Be very specific
Elude the jerks

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Speak Impromptu
Keep cool
Think before you speak
Be brief and precise
Choose appropriate formula
PAST PRESENT & FUTURE
PREP (Point, Reason, Example, Point)

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Avoid
Acting surprised
Apologizing
Rambling
Getting off subject

38. MPSSS 38
Manage the Media
Know what makes talking to media
unique
Master press interview techniques
Make it big
 at the Radio
 on TV appearance

39. MPSSS 39
Know what makes talking to
media unique
Experienced communicators
Microphone or camera fever
Intimacy
Less time

40. MPSSS 40
Master press interview
techniques
Look at the interviewer
Rephrase hostile questions
Make your key statement
Don’t wait for the right question
Don’t evade questions
Never say anything “off the record”

41. MPSSS 41
At the radio
Project enthusiasm in your voice
Don’t relax too much
Put smile in your voice
Take cards with you
Ask for re-recording if necessary

42. MPSSS 42
On TV appearance
Rehearse your body language
Know what to wear
Never use alcohol or drugs
Wear make up
Know what you want to say
Visit studio prior to the interview

43. MPSSS 43
You Will be Successful!
Prepare your speech
Deliver your speech
Control stage fright
Handle question and answer
session
Speak impromptu
Manage the media