Chapter 1, page 2Public speaking is to communicate with a purpose. For a specific reason, you are
requested to talk to an audience. So, while talking, you want them to feel, think and act on something. Hence, your speech should flow around these objectives.
Once you have started your speech, do not be
distracted by the latecomers or outside noise. Do not let your attention wander and become absent-minded. If you do so, you will not be communicating.
Think about what you are saying, while saying it.
Think about it hard. Then the audience will know that you mean what you say and will listen to you with rapt attention. Your talking should never be mechanical.
A public speaker should feel alive,
enthusiastic and truly interested in the topic. Look at the audience as living people.
Devote your full attention to the topic and consider it to be very vital to the audience. Speak on the topic with
full enthusiasm. This is the best way to evoke the interest of the audience.
Do not talk for talk's sake or just to show-off your voice and clothes. A public speaker has something, he thinks is worth
saying, and he says it. He is earnest. He has a sense of responsibility to his listeners.
He tries to say something that will be worth the precious time allotted to him.
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