The Professional Speaker (226G)

Overview:This manual offers guidance in preparing various types of speeches in a professional atmosphere.

Project Speeches:
(Content garnered from member manuals and other Toastmaster clubs and may not be complete)

1) The keynote Address: Identify the basic differences between keynote speeches and other kinds of speeches. Learn how to evaluate audience feeling and establish rapport. Learn and use the professional techniques necessary for successful keynote presentation. Develop a speech style and delivery that effectively inspires and moves the audience to adopt your views as a collective reaffirmation of its own.
Time: 15-20 minutes.

2) Speaking to Entertain: Entertain the audience through the use of humor drawn from personal experience and from other material that you have personalized. Deliver the speech in a way that makes the humor effective. Establish personal rapport with your audience for maximum impact.
Time: 15-20 minutes.

3) The Sales Training Speech: Tell audiences how to sell a product by using a planned presentation. Inform a sales training audience about the human experience of the buyer-seller relationship. Use entertaining stories and dynamic examples of sales situations. Inspire salespeople to want to succeed in selling.
Time: 15-20 minutes.

4) Professional Seminar: Plan an present a seminar with specific learning objectives. Relate to the audience by using a seminar presentation style. Use seminar presentation techniques to promote group participation, learning and personal growth.
Time 20-40 minutes.

5) The Motivational Speech: Understand the concept and nature of motivational speaking. Apply a four-step motivational method with the purpose of persuading and inspiring. Deliver a motivational speech to persuade an audience to emotionally commit to an action.
Time: 15-20 minutes.

 

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