Public Speaking MasteryAnalyzing Speaking Skills to Master Public SpeakingPublic speaking mastery can be enhanced by analyzing and critiquing speeches you observe. At the end of this lesson is a link to a 12 hour tutorial where you can listen to some highly paid speakers. Put what your learning to work at your leisure. To become an master speaker requires not only practicing public speaking skill, but an understanding of the elements of great speaking, how and why they work and when to use them. Observing these qualities in other speakers or seeing where they should have been used but were not can help your own progress. Public speech critique is a tool to help you better see and analyze your own speeches. When you see someone use the various skills masterfully, you will be able to grow in your skills by imitation. Your appreciation will be enhanced as you see and understand the dynamics unfold as you observe. When a speaker fails to effectively use the appropriate skills you will see the need for and how they could have enhanced the speech. This understanding will likewise help your own growth and development. Public Speaking can be done by anyone who wants to speak in front of an audience. Only those who apply themselves will attain public speaking mastery. This is one of the applications to help you on your quest. How to Give a Public Speech Critique As you listen to speeches, grade or analyze each of the various speech qualities. Below is a limited list of qualities to consider and grade a speaker as they work toward attaining public speaking mastery. The speech qualities can be divided into three areas.
For a comprehensive list of skills to critique and to work on to attain Public Speaking Mastery go to Speaking Skills Analysis and copy the bulleted points. If you print it in a font size of 9 points it should end up being about 4 pages. What is said focuses on the word choice.
How it is said focuses on speech qualities
The presentation and presenter
Use a scale of 0-5 or 0-10 where the high number the best and the low the least Identify the type of speech, informative, persuasive, or motivational. As each skill is used grade it using the scale. If some skills are used more than once, write the grade more than once and average them out. Skills that should have been used that were not can be given a Zero. With bad habits like word whiskers and mannerisms, keep a count of how many times they were used. A few can slide. Too many and it will impress on you why care needs to be used to avoid them. Then take the averages to come up with a score on how good the speaker did. Has the speaker you viewed attained public speaking mastery? Was it a great speech, a 10? Or was the quality diminished by poor skills. As you see these qualities in others, you will better be able to apply them in your speeches. Some skills are synergistic. Some may be used in some speeches and not in others. For instance in giving a funeral eulogy, in some instances it may not be appropriate to include enthusiasm and in other instances it may be. Use your understanding of these skills to grow in your abilities and develop into Public Speaking Mastery. Improve Public Speaking Skill by observing and critiquing other speakers. This is a self guided lesson. It can take up to 12 hours and you can do it at your leisure. Bonus for you, view for free videos others paid thousands to hear. Remember as you observe these videos, some day it could be you. Go to top of Public Speaking Mastery / Go to Home Page
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