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When we begin our journey to become a confident public speaker, it is extremely important to have a structured plan in place. This can be achieved by enrolling in a reputed public speaking course and develop your own set of activities to work towards your goals. The following 4-step activities are recommended to transform yourself into a successful public speaker. Work on them diligently! 1. Develop a Public Speaking Portfolio First of all, you need to develop a portfolio to document your journey as a public speaker. Purchase a notebook to articulate your communication goals for the next few months. This should include:           Speech topics and outlines          Instructor evaluations           Self and peer critiques for every speech          Written assignments  2. Interview a High-Ranking Professional Set up an interview with a manag...

We need to communicate with people almost on a daily basis. There can be different situations- formal or casual, that require us to convey our message to the other person in a sophisticated manner. Using communication idioms can make you sound slick and smooth, while also helping you to get your point across effectively. Here are 10 such idioms (the ones that indicate miscommunication are also included) that you can use in your daily conversations: 1) Get hold/ahold of To get hold of ahold of someone means to get in touch with them or contact them, usually by phone. E.g. I need to get hold of Rohit to tell him that his class has been postponed to tomorrow. 2) Drop me a line When you drop someone a line it mean to contact a person. This can be done through e-mail or phone. E.g. I am looking for new job opportunities. Please drop me a line if there are any good openings in your company. 3) Keep me posted To keep someone posted means to keep that person updat...

At Pep Talk India , one of the most common enquiries we receive from our students is regarding stuttering or stammering while speaking on the stage or during a presentation. There are many people in this world who are well-versed with most aspects of the English language, but when it comes to giving a public speech, they fumble, hesitate, and repeat stuff to the point that it breaks their confidence. Being unable to express yourself is an incredibly frustrating experience and finding yourself tongue-tied during a crucial presentation that could significantly impact your career can push down your morale for the future. After taking into account the experiences of hundreds of students, and actively training them to overcome their fears and hesitation during public speaking, the Pep Talk India team has come up with some extremely effective tips that will help you overcome your stuttering: 1. Practice Deep Breathing One of the main reasons why your words come out like a garbled...

Whenever you have to begin a presentation, you have merely a minute to create a forceful impact on the audience, capture their attention, and establish your credibility. A good start will instill confidence inside you and make the audience more engaged with your content. Getting on the wrong foot by making inappropriate jokes, showing nervousness , or simply parroting your PowerPoint slides is a sure shot recipe for disaster. How can you get off to the perfect start and make your presentation a resounding success ? There are several ingenious ways in which you can do that. Here are some of them:    1)  Narrate a captivating story Stories capture the imagination of people like nothing else. Narrate an interesting anecdote or a hard-hitting story that the audience can relate to on a personal level. For example, if you are speaking on safety measures for women in personal and professional life, there are many shocking incidents of rapes as well as instances ...

Throughout the course of history, there have been many powerful speakers who have stirred up human emotions, inspired swathes of population, and made compelling arguments on society, economics, and politics through their speeches. These eminent personalities include U.S. presidents like Abraham Lincoln and JF Kennedy, civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr., tech visionary Steve Jobs, novelist Ayn Rand, and many others. Any important speech that has a significant ‘call to action’ associated with it, is peppered with various figures of speech, all tweaked to rhetorical perfection to create maximum impact. These figures of speech are used commonly by influential speakers and have a high recall value. For instance, “ Stay hungry, stay foolish ” ~ Steve Job, in his Stanford commencement address. In order to add more color to your speech and increase its impact on the audience, you can play around with words and come up with your own phrases that sound interesting and impac...