Persuasive Speech Tips
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- Find an appropriate and interesting speech topic… this is the most difficult part of running a speech. Try something fun, relevant, and even popular.
- Set realistic goals… set your sights on changing the mind of your audience in small increments. It’s likely you will not change long-held ingrained opinions on issues
- Know your audience well… to be persuasive, you must identify with your audience and help your audience identify with you.
- Use examples, they can relate to… to help the audience identify with your topic is local examples they can relate to. Things that are unique to your own culture, geography, or community.
- Use excellent evidence… do your research and utilize judiciously, credible statistics, fax, quotes, and emotional examples.
- Represent the other side accurately… when discussing the other side’s point of view, make sure you are accurate. You need to accurately represent their motives and their point of view.
- Tell stories… we all have them, because we all live in them. People relate to stories more than anything. Learn to tell yours in a compelling way.
- Use a compelling storyline… just like in the movies. A protagonist, a challenge, a letdown , a failure, a battle, a victory, and a resolution with lessons learned in the process.
- Ask the audience to take action…. make them do something. have a call to action. To some change, activity, or behavioral adjustment.
- Show the audience you care very much about your topic… if you don’t care why should they? You must really own your content on an emotional level. If you do not,it will show and your credibility will suffer as a speaker.
- Be present and in the moment, as you deliver your talk… nothing is more powerful than one you are on stage, know your content thoroughly, and are able to relate it in a compelling way. As you are present, and in the moment, and having fun!
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Posted on April 27th, 2008 by Scott Hammond
Filed under: Speaking
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