1. Public Speaking

2. Public Speaking and Storytelling
Good public speaking is storytelling
The human brain is hardwired to understand (Fisher, MacIntyre)
Your speech should be built like a story
A “hook”
Dramatic tension
Rising action
A climax
Falling action, denoument

3. Public Speaking and Delivery

4. Delivery Tips Don’t write your speech Be vulnerable Plan gestures
Use your space
Make eye contact
Keep it simple
Tell a story
Enjoy the experience

5. Introductions and Conclusions

6. Beginnings Matter The first minute matters
You have 10 seconds to capture your audience’s attention or they won’t listen
Don’t start with your topic—build up to it
Perform
Embody characters
Get out from behind the lectern
Get them out of the now and into your story

7. Beginnings Matter Introductions must contain A hook
Ethos builder (a story or statistic)
A thesis
A preview

8. Hook Your Audience Hook your audience
Violate your audience’s expectations
Get your audience involved
Use physical objects
Use humor
Ask provocative questions
Use anecdotes and stories

9. Conclusion Conclusions are your chance to leave an impression
Primacy and recency.
Let your audience know you are concluding.
Highlight the important stuff—let them know what to remember.
Be dramatic and memorable
End strong with a clincher

10. Clinchers The title close The circular close The challenging close
The invitation close
The quotation closoe
The repetitive close

11. Clinchers The sing-song close The suggestive close
The benediction close
The congratulatory close
The proverbial close
The demonstration close

12. Goals, Strategies, and Your Informative Speech!
Informative Speaking
Goals, Strategies, and Your Informative Speech!

13. Goals and Strategies
Informative speaking seeks to communicate knowledge.
Goal: to increase the audience’s awareness and understanding by imparting knowledge.
Informative speeches provide your audience with new information, insights or ways of thinking/proceeding.

14. Goals and Strategies Differentiate between informing and persuading
An informative speech is descriptive or synthetic not analytical or evaluative.
Gauge the audience’s informational needs
Demonstrate the topic’s relevance.
Clearly preview main points.
Present compelling and interesting information

15. Types of Informative Speaking
Informative speeches are often about
Objects or phenomena
People
Events
Processes
Issues
Concepts

16. Guidelines for Informative Speaking
Center the information on the audience.
Limit the information (avoid overload).
Adjust the level of complexity—K.I.S.S.
Relate new information to old
Make information easy to remember

17. Use supporting materials
Examples, illustrations, and narratives
Testimony
Statistics
Raw numbers
Central tendency
Visual display
Definitions

18. Use presentation aids
Select an appropriate presentation aid: object, model, chart, map, people, photograph, illustration.
Know your presentation aids
Tips
Ensure visual aid is large enough to see.
Display presentation aids when they are relevant; then hide them.
Do not read from your presentation aid.
Do not let your presentation do the talking for you.
Minimize the amount of information on a presentation aid.

19. Methods of Informing
Definition
Description
Demonstration
Explanation

20. Reducing Confusion
Use analogies—use their knowledge of other things to help convey your meaning.
Use visualization—show the audience what you are describing.
Demonstrate underlying causes—counter faulty assumptions.
Check for understanding—ask direct questions.