How To Be An Entertaining Speaker

Hello, my name is Micheal Ronayne, a director of college of public speaking. And I am going to be speaking about different aspects of public speaking. If you want to be an entertaining speaker, the advise is probably don't try too hard.

I think the whole of I had, bestman's speech or wedding speeches for someone felt they were obliged to be as funny as possible for as long as possible, and it turns out to be a stand up comedian routine. Maybe it's a stand up comic or not be but in the end, this is what the feeling is, it will no make sense and it was a series of gags. Now the very interesting when we work in speakers clubs, the association of speakers clubs and friends has a manual way you go through speeches in one to ten and each speech is teaching another skill: structure, good eye contact, body language, use of voice, slang's sort of things.

What happens very regularly is that people, as they are going through the manual do fantastic in what it does, speaks and they are very entertaining all the way through, and then they get to level ait, level ait is the humor speech and they think they have to start trying to be funny. Now for a speaker to be entertaining, they don't necessarily have to be funny. It's nice if you have a couple of nice points in there as well.

The big cage of being an entertaining speaker: stories, anecdotes, examples to great visual images of people that they can enjoy listening to. And the key message if you are telling stories as a speaker, never tell a story if it has not got a point. If you tell a story that hasn't got a point if not told a jock, it means nothing! If you are telling a story that has a point, you could tell a story that might be quite funny and if people laugh- Fantastic! - but if they don't laugh, it doesn't actually matter because you are moving onto the point of the story anyway, and of course not that does it takes an enormous amount of pressure in you as a speaker.

If you tell something knowing you don't have to make people laugh but it's actually quite a funny story, you get a much warmer response and, I think having worked with people, best man speeches over occasions as well, use the one that work best as genuine honest speech that may be having one or two humorous moments in there but then not trying too hard to be funny. So if you want to be an entertaining speaker the key is: Don't try too hard. .