Secret to Becoming a Great Speaker (extended version)

The Secret to
Becoming a
Great Speaker

Everyone has the potential to become a great
speaker. This is a fact not ﬁction nor hype nor
fantasy. Everyone, that includes you! Realize
this, no one is born a great speaker but it does
take a lot of work. To prove this we are going
to look at two examples. The ﬁrst one is…

Winston Churchill is a great example of someone who
became a great speaker through hard work. Churchill had a
slight stammer and a lisp when he was young. At age 29 he
literally froze for three minutes at the House of Commons as
a newly elected representative. Everyone in the room
laughed at him. He vowed never again would this happen.
From that day on Winston made it his “only ambition to be
master of the spoken word” and he improved his skill
through immense preparation and practice over many years.

There is another guy I know personally
who had such a intense fear of speaking
that he could not speak in front of others.

I use to get petriﬁed when I had to speak in front
of others. During my university days I was a
physical education major. When I had to get out in
front to teach my classmates I did terrible due to
my fear. They would all laugh at me. So I avoided
speaking in front of others as much as possible.

When I was 30 years old taking a class on
how to preach in Bible school I ended up
not doing my ﬁrst sermon the day I was
suppose to because I had stayed up the
night before vomiting due to the fear I had.

When I began speaking in front of others on a
regular basis I got better step by step. Over the
years I became an ok speaker but it was not until I
joined Toastmasters 4 years ago that I ﬁnally began
to see great improvement in my speaking ability.

Romania National Champion
Table Topics 2015
Humorous Speech 2016

Secret?
Are you ready to learn the secret to becoming a great speaker?

Becoming a great speaker is a journey. It is a step-by-step process
that results in you becoming better and better over time.

First Step?
What is the ﬁrst step in the journey?

Dananjaya
Hettiarachchi
Most people don’t truly desired to be great they just…

Our journey to become great begins in our hearts.

Why?
The ﬁrst step is to determine why you want to become great.

Why should we want to learn to become a great speaker?
Why?

Overcoming the fear of
speaking will give you
conﬁdence that affects
every part of your life. It
will even open you up to
overcoming other lesser
fears in your life.

We influence those around us in two ways -
with our actions or with our words - being able
to speak well results in greater influence.
With greater confidence and influence comes…

75% of all people have a fear of
speaking Being able to speak in front
of others will open doors and give
advantages others don’t experience.

Money
With more opportunities come more
rewards as more doors open for you
personally and professionally resulting in
more connections, relationships and income.

Warren Buffett
You can improve your
value by 50 percent
just by learning
communication skills--
public speaking.

Fred Miller
People who speak, and
speak well, are seen as
leaders and experts.
They are presented with
opportunities others
would love to have.

Learning how to become an
effective public speaker can
be the key difference
between success and failure
in your life at home, at work
and in your own community!
Rennu Dhillon

Only you can decide your why. Take the ﬁrst step and decide your why.

In this presentation we are going to look
at the big picture of what it takes to be a
great speaker. We don’t have time to go
into the details but I have put together
resources for you that go into the details.

dulcewill@gmail.com
facebook.com/dulcewill

Why?
Once you have decided your why the next step is to…

It is critical that we ﬁrst build a solid
learning foundation in order to develop
the skills needed to be great and
succeed in speaking and anything else
in life! This is critical no matter what
you want to learn.

ProactiveDavis Aurini
99% of being an expert
is nailing down the
basics...establish a basis,
a solid foundation,
a routine, and the
rest will follow.

Through studying, speaking and mentoring others I
have discovered there are three layers to a solid
learning foundation. The ﬁrst layer is…

Mindset
Choosing to have a learning mindset.

System
Developing a learning system.

Routine
Establishing a learning routine.

Let’s look at these three things in a bit more detail.

A learning mindset. Some call it a
growth mindset. Once you have decided
your why the next step is to change
your mindset. Your mindset about
learning determines your success in life
whether it’s becoming a great speaker
or something else. What is mindset?

A mindset is a set of ideas and attitudes
that shape the way we think about
ourselves and the world. It determines
how we behave, our outlook on life and
our attitude towards everything that’s
going on around us.
What are some aspects of a learning mindset?

Proactive
Commitment
Effort
Feedback
?
Discipline
Excellence
Self-Learner

?
Guess what is another
important mindset we have to
have in order to become a
great speaker. The mindset we
have on dealing with…

Fear is like a bully. It wants to
limit you! You need to face
your fear! Lean into your
fear! Go through your fear!
That is how you defeat fear!
Once you conquer your fear
of speaking it will be easier
to defeat other fears as well.

Michael Hyatt
Learning to welcome
uncomfortable things, even
things you're afraid of, helps you
get outside of your box -- and
that's where true growth and
innovation happen. When you
confront new obstacles, you're
compelled to push past your
limits to overcome them

Mind Set
That’s a look at the ﬁrst layer of our learning
foundation. Next we move on to…

System
A learning system is the step by step process we use to learn something.

Goals can provide direction and
even push you forward in the
short-term, but eventually a well-
designed system will always win.
Having a system is what matters.
Committing to the process is what
makes the difference.
James Clear

Toastmasters CC manual is a learning system.

I’ve developed a 15 step system that I use
along with the T.M. manual for myself &
those I mentor. I call it…

I have included it in the
resources I put together for
you. Let me share with you
the ﬁrst three steps from it.
What is the ﬁrst step?

ReadTo read the project in the manual. The next step is to….

To-Do ListMake a to-do list of what you need to do for your project. Rather
than explain it here is an example.

Project 2 To-Do List
1. Select the topic for my speech - best one for me and my audience
2. Make an outline of my speech - logically arrange my ideas
3. Write the introduction for my speech - catch the audience’s attention
4. Write the body of my speech - supports the main idea of speech
5. Write the conclusion of my speech - reinforce ideas and make memorable
6. Focus on transitions - move smoothly from one topic to another
Write out a to-do list in the ﬁrst person - see “my speech” - short
and to the point. After that the third step is to…

sixminutes.dlugan.com
Check out this great website that has
guides for the ﬁrst 7 projects. While this
site is not posting anything new it has
tons of great articles on public speaking.

Mind Set
System
We’ve looked at mindset and learning system.
Let’s move on now to…

Routine
Establishing a routine, a time set aside each day, to use
your learning system that results in continual growth.

One hour per day of study will
put you at the top of your
ﬁeld within three years. Within
ﬁve years you’ll be a national
authority. In seven years, you
can be one of the best people
in the world at what you do.
Earl Nightingale

Doing a little bit everyday is far superior
to cramming just before a speech. The
brain takes time to rewire itself. Establish
a time to spend at least 15 minutes a day.
Connect it with something you already do.

Excellence is an art won by
training and habituation. We do
not act rightly because we have
virtue or excellence, but we
rather have those because we
have acted rightly. We are what
we repeatedly do. Excellence,
then, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle

Winston Churchill
Continuous effort, not
strength or intelligence,
is the key to unlocking
our potential.

Mind Set
System
Routine
Once we establish the correct learning foundation we need to…

We need to focus our mindset, system and
routine on three things for every speech.

ContentDeveloping our content.

DeliveryPracticing our delivery.

Speak
Speak
Speak
Take every possible opportunity to speak in front of others. You
need to be persistent in speaking as much as possible.

Details
please!
Here are a few of the details.

The ﬁrst step is to know your audience.
You need to be able to tell them why
they should listen to you.

SurveyMonkey
Free: Questions per survey - 10. Number of responses -100.

Public speaking involves an
audience. If you focus entirely on
yourself in an effort to be
perfect, you’re forgetting the
more important half of the
equation – the people who have
to get your presentation for it to
mean anything.
Nick Morgan

Michelle Mazur
The more you know about the
audience the more you’re able
to meet them exactly where they
are. When you meet the
audience at THEIR starting point,
you’ll be able to move them to
where you want them to go.

Great speeches require great content. Spend
one week getting to know your audience,
doing research, determining the purpose of
your speech and developing an outline then
one week to write out your speech.

Chris Anderson
Your number one mission as a
speaker is to take something that
matters deeply to you and rebuild it
inside the minds of your listeners.
The only thing that truly matters in
public speaking is not conﬁdence,
stage presence or smooth talking.
It’s having something worth saying.

Two weeks for this as well - the ﬁrst week
ﬁne-tune and get comfortable with the
words you are saying - we don’t speak like
we write. Then during the second week add
practicing your body gestures and after
that work on your vocal variety .

If you rehearse really, really, really well
— it looks improvisational. Some
people rehearse to a point where
they’re robotic, and they sound like
they have memorized their
presentation and didn’t take it to the
next level. Going from sounding
memorized and canned to sounding
natural is a lot of work.
Nancy Duarte

Rob Biesenbach
Some people fear that too
much rehearsal undermines
spontaneity and authenticity.
Actors know the opposite to
be true. Having your material
internalized actually frees you
to live in the moment.

Scott Schwertly
The sound of your voice is like a cake,
it’s the delicious result of different
ingredients mixed together. This
includes your cadence, tone, speed,
and volume, all of which add up to
the ﬁnal result. For presenters, being
understood is everything. But even
more than this, studies suggest that
people determine how trustworthy or
dominant you are within the ﬁrst 500
milliseconds of hearing your voice.

Michael Hudson
When you’re on stage, every
movement you make, every step
you take, impacts the way the
audience receives your message.
If your movements align with your
words, they increase the impact of
your message. But if they appear
random or disconnected, they will
derail even the best message.

The best speeches and
presentations, the ones that
are delivered effortlessly; the
ones that we remember; the
ones that make an impact, are
usually the result of thorough
and careful preparation.
John Zimmer

Gary Genard
You have to learn how to speak with
physical expressiveness…You and I,
in other words, need to ﬁnd a
physical expression for our messages.
Think about that: how can you use
your body to clarify, strengthen, and
amplify the sense of what you’re
saying? That truly is the value of
body language in public speaking.

Speak
Speak
Speak
You will only get better by speaking.

You must learn
to speak by
speaking.
Dale Carnegie

Nothing in this world can take the
place of persistence. Talent will not:
nothing is more common than
unsuccessful men with talent. Genius
will not; unrewarded genius is
almost a proverb. Education will not:
the world is full of educated
derelicts. Persistence and
determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge

When you are speaking what do you want
to do with your audience? Before we look
at that let’s look at what you don’t want
to do. Whatever you do please don’t …

Kill
Don’t bore them to death! Don’t
overwhelm them with too much
information! Don’t be confusing!
What should be your goal as a speaker?

ConnectTo connect with your audience during the opening.

Engage
To keep your audience engaged throughout the whole speech.

ChangeTo motivate your audience to change in speciﬁc ways during the closing.

First you need to connect with your audience
during the opening with your smile, open body
gestures, eye contact, enthusiasm and voice.
Then you need to connect what you are going
to talk about with your audience. Remember
how I started out? “Everyone in this room can
become a great speaker!” Your audience needs
to know why they should listen.

Jim Anderson
The quality of your next speech will not
be determined by the amount of effort
that you put into your slides. It won’t be
determined by your clever use of pauses
and hand gestures. Instead, your level of
success will depend on how well you are
able to connect with your audience.

To keep your audience engaged
throughout your speech also requires the
use of your body and voice and a logical
structure that is simple, short and clear
to follow with effective transitions.

Lastly, your speech should change your
audience in some way. It should change
how they feel or think or what they do.

Transform
You want your audience to transform
into a better version of themselves
because of your speech.

Jared Senseman
The purpose of a speech is to move people to
action. You point an audience to a place where
they want to be, a distant hilltop, a better
future, a more stable company, a more
‘connected’ life. You make them dissatisﬁed
with where they are now and tempt them with
a ‘golden tomorrow’ – and then you’ve got to
show them how to get there. Or at least, you
do if you want to be great.

For your audience to change you will need
to tell your audience what you want them
to do with what you said. Give them
something speciﬁc to do after your speech
is done. As an example I will give you a call
to action towards the end of these slides.

Sunset
As we come to the end of time together remember!

JourneyThe journey to becoming a great speaker begins…

Why?
You need to know your why. Why do you want to become a
great speaker? Once you’ve done that…

You need to build a solid learning
foundation. You can't build a great
building on a weak foundation.
How do you do that? First you…

Choose to have a learning mindset. Your
mindset determines your success in life.
The starting point to becoming a great
speaker is having the right mindset.

Figure out the steps you need to
take to reach your goal. Check out
the system I use with those I
mentor in the resources.

Establish a learning routine and stay
consistent at it for the long haul. At least
15 minutes a day. Consistent actions of
excellence over time result in the
development of habits of excellence.
Take your learning foundation and…

Focus…then focus your learning foundation on…

What?What do you want to do with your audience during your speech?
Whatever you do please don’t …

Kill
…kill your audience! What should you do?

ConnectYou should connect with your audience during the opening.

Engage
Then keep your audience engaged throughout the whole speech.

Change
Finish by motivating your audience to
change in speciﬁc ways during the closing.

Take a hold of your Toastmaster experience. If you aren’t in Toastmasters…

My life would have been much different and better if
I had joined Toastmasters a long time ago. If I could
go back in time and tell my younger self anything it
would be to join TM and learn to be a great speaker.

Success
If you do there is no limit on what you can accomplish!

Download1. Download the resources ﬁle I put together

Review
2. Review this training by ﬁrst looking at the pdf
of the extended version of the slides then…

Watch3. Watch the video of this training and take notes

Action Plan5. Make an action plan using all the resources in the downloaded ﬁle

World in Hands
Be equipped
to impact
your world
for good!

The Secret to
Becoming a
Great Speaker
Ladies and gentlemen, that is the secret to becoming a great speaker.

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