The Little Book of Speaking Off the Cuff. Impromptu Speaking -- Speak Unprepared Without Fear!

Thomas Skipwith

Description

If you always wanted to easily speak of the cuff this little book is for you.

Thousands of DESCUBRIS' workshop participants have successfully implemented the techniques in this book. You too can learn to give a great impromptu speech without preparation.

Those moments when you get called upon to say something and you are tongue tied are embarrassing. Some stand there stuttering, have sweaty hands and have a pulse rate of 200. This can be avoided. This little book gives you clear how-to-instructions.

Thomas Skipwith has won the Swiss and European championships of impromptu speaking several times, both in English and German. He successfully uses the do's and don'ts in this book himself. Studying public speaking for the last 20 years has made him an expert in this field.

Sujets

• Santé et bien-être
• Développement personnel
• développement personnel
• Self-help
• Personal Growth

Informations

• Publié par: eBookIt.com
• Date de parution: 19 septembre 2014
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781456607166
• Langue: English

Extrait

Thomas Skipwith
 
 
The little book
of speaking
off the cuff
 
 
Impromptu speaking. Speak
unprepared without fear!
 


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Speaking makes a difference.
 
 
To my parents, family and friends, including Sue Roberts, Peter Brechbühler, Ömer Güven and Diana Jeger-Daiber.
Foreword
Has this happened to you before? You participate in a meeting. The boss is looking for a volunteer. He is supposed to report from the meeting with the client. Nobody in the team is prepared. Nobody says anything. The first thought that comes to your mind: “I hope he doesn’t pick me.” Then the boss picks someone else. Your second thought is: “I feel sorry for the guy.” Your third thought is: “He, he, let’s see how he does.”
Let humor aside: To speak without preparation is tough for many of us. If next time you want to give an impromptu speech that will dazzle your audience, then all you need to do is apply one of the many techniques in this little book. In addition, there are a lot of additional valuable tips. Some of the tips are also useful for those who have no trouble speaking off the cuff.
 
Prepared vs. Unprepared
Rest assured - it occurs only very rarely that you really need to give an unprepared, impromptu speech. A speech in which you have to come up with something just like that or to make something up out of thin air. This is because the person who asks you to say something thinks you know something about the topic. For example, your colleague asks you how you felt about this year's congress. Or your boss asks what you expect from your current project. These are all topics about which you can say something.
In addition many can follow their gut feeling. It warns you days in advance. The warning? “You might have to say something.” Now, if your gut feeling is nice enough to warn you, then why not just listen to it? Take five minutes of your time to think about what you would say if you were asked to say something. With that it is no longer an unprepared speech – to your advantage. You don’t need to rub it into your audience’s face that you were prepared. Eloquent politicians do the exact same thing. What looks like an impromptu speech was prepared in advance. Given many times before. Mark Twain put it into the following words: “It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.” In other words the experienced politician thinks about what he is going to say, then rehearses it and then says it.
Regardless of the above: This little book reveals in particular one technique, with which you can say something in (almost) every situation to (almost) any topic. Even if unprepared.