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Listening and learning from a speaker or someone who is giving speech has never been a desired task for the audience – well, in most cases. It sounds stereotypical, may be, but the culture of listening to speaker has been a poor one in this sub-continental societies. However, the listeners are not the only responsible part of this play; the speakers, themselves need to be capable of making the audience feel connected. This write-up portrays few suggestions on public speaking and they are from a speaker who has caught the attention of the nation and the world as well, in this last couple of years.
Mashahed Hasan Simanta, the 22 years old university student has given more than 2000+ speeches in different debates, public speaking, business competition, lectures & training activities. He has got few suggestions for the ones who aspires to be a good speaker. He says, “If you want to punish someone, then force him/her to listen a messy, long and boring speech. Some people have a great fear to speak in public; some doesn’t want to stop before it’s a decade.” Here are 3 advices to gain confidence to be a speaker and 6 guidelines to be a memorable speaker from this young energetic speaker.
3 Advices
Why should you be scared to speak?
We become scared in the stage for two reasons –
- We think, “Maybe I am making something wrong”
- “And every single audience are noticing those faults and thinking, what a pathetic speaker I am.”
Look, people are not perfect, so it is natural to commit mistakes in the stage. Again audience are not Sherlock Holmes, that they could identify every single fault of your speech. Even if a person have some grammatical inaccuracy or other problem regarding structure, speech may look amazing if we are confident.
Consider audience as your friend
When you hang-out with your friend are you scared to speak? No!
If you are not scared to speak and even shout with your friends, then
why should you be scared to speak with your audience?
Just remember, there are two pre-requisites of becoming a public speaker
- You have to be a public
- You should have vocal-cord =D
Be clear about your message
Every speech should have a message. You need to ask this question to yourself, “What are the core lines I want my audience to believe”. After fixing the message try to package it with your example, explanation & experiences. If you have multiple messages to send your audience, then make a serial of them.
6 bullets to shoot your audience
- Give audience something to think about!
Then give them an unexpected answer.
I don’t allow my girl-friend to touch my i-phone for two reasons. Firstly, I don’t have a girl-friend; secondly, I don’t have an i-phone.
- 1+98+1 = 100
If you plan to tell 100 lines in your speech, then Ensure that your 1st line is enough to win the audience. You need to assume that, “None would remain in the hall after my 1st line.” Make sure, your 1 Line makes you memorable for one Life. After hearing your last line, people would decide, “Whether to keep your words in short term memory or in long term?” So, give special care to your First and Last line.
- Tell a story & make a point
People may forget the point, but they can’t forget the story. Story will preserve the points. (Craig
Valentine)
- What I will require to create a theme?
Solve this Equation: (Nothing – No) + King = THINKING!
- Make your audience – crying or laughing or deep thinking
- Play with the minds of Audiences
In many romantic movies, heroine accuses his boyfriend by saying that, “You have played with my Mind & Emotions, and I am leaving you, BREAK UP!” If anyone tells you the same line, that means you have the significant symptom of becoming a great speaker!
How to play with them? Introduce a confusion & have a confusion ending conclusion. And ensure that people can’t predict the end line, but at the end can relate the entire.
Now the question, why should we care about public speaking. A common fallacy among us is those who speaks smartly, with a good voice and proper eye contact, are an overall good person. If we want to make Relation or Promotion it is needed. So why don’t we learn it. You may think, it is really tough. I can answer you from the perspective of an Economic event and principle. You can buy a product when you have both the “Willingness” and “Capability”. Same for public speaking. You will need the “Willingness (to think)” and the “Capability (the ability to speak, having proper vocal cord!)” to be a better public speaker.
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Mashahed Hassan (Simanta)
The Youngest Professional Trainer & Speaker of Bangladesh who trained & Motivated 6000+ BCS officers, corporate employees, university faculties, students in home & abroad. He has won 100+ national and international competition like debating, public speaking, business competition, MUN, policy making competition and judged 16 international competition in 5 countries. Currently he is in his 3rd Year of graduation at the Institute of Business Administration – Jahangirnagar University.
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