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Speaking in Public

Speaking in Public. Power of Public Speaking. P.S. & Conversation. Similarities: Logically organized thoughts Messages tailored to audience Stories told for maximum impact Feedback adapted to. P.S. & Conversation. Differences: Public speaking more highly structured

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Speaking in Public

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  1. Speaking in Public

  2. Power of Public Speaking

  3. P.S. & Conversation Similarities: • Logically organized thoughts • Messages tailored to audience • Stories told for maximum impact • Feedback adapted to

  4. P.S. & Conversation Differences: • Public speaking more highly structured • Public speaking requires more formal language • Public speaking requires different method of delivery

  5. Stage Fright Anxiety over prospect of speaking in front of audience

  6. Reducing Speech Anxiety • Acquire experience • Prepare, prepare, prepare • Think positively

  7. Reducing Speech Anxiety • Use power of visualization • Know most nervousness is not visible • Don’t expect perfection

  8. Positive Nervousness Controlled nervousness that energizes speaker for presentation

  9. Visualization Picturing oneself giving successful presentation

  10. Critical Thinking • Focused, organized thinking • Involves relationships among ideas, soundness of evidence, differences between fact & opinion

  11. Speech Comm. Process • Speaker • Message • Channel • Listener • Feedback • Interference • Situation

  12. Speech Comm. Process

  13. Frame of Reference Sum of person’s knowledge, experience, goals, values, attitudes

  14. Frame of Reference • Everything filtered through listener’s frame of reference • No two people have same frame of reference

  15. Ethnocentrism Believing one’s group or culture is superior to all other groups or cultures

  16. Avoiding Ethnocentrism • Respect listeners’ cultural values • Adapt messages to expectations • Imagine oneself in place of listeners

  17. Avoiding Ethnocentrism • Be alert to feedback • Listeners also have to avoid ethnocentrism

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