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The Entertaining Speaker |
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The Entertaining Speech:
Entertain with humor and/or drama from your personal
experience (5-7 min) |
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Resources for Entertainment:
Entertain with humor and/or drama from sources other
than personal experience (8-10 min) |
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Make Them Laugh:
Prepare a humorous speech drawn from your own
experiences and strengthened by adapted material from
outside sources (8-10 min) |
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A Dramatic Talk:
Develop an entertaining dramatic talk about
an experience or incident, or give a dramatic reading
(10-12 min) |
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Speaking After Dinner:
Prepare an entertaining after-dinner topic
on a specific theme (13-15 min) |
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Speaking To Inform |
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The Speech to Inform:
Select, organize and present useful information
to motivate your audience to learn (5-7 min) |
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Resources for Informing:
Through researched information, focus your
presentation on the audience's level of knowledge (8-10
min) |
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The Demonstration Talk:
Conduct a demonstration speech to explain a
process, product, or activity (10-12 min) |
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A Fact-Finding Report:
Prepare a report on a situation, event or problem
of interest to the audience (10-12 min) |
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The Abstract Concept:
Research and organize the thoughts of experts
on an abstract concept, theory, historial force or social/political
issue (10-12 min) |
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Public Relations |
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The Public Relations Speech:
Prepare a talk that will build goodwill for
your organization (5-7 min) |
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Resources for Goodwill:
Prepare a talk designed to build goodwill toward
an organization or your company (8-10 min) |
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The Persuasive Approach:
Persuade your audience to adopt your viewpoint
using both fact and emotion (8-10 min) |
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Speaking Under Fire:
Persuade a hostile audience to at least consider
your position on a controversial issue (6-8 min for
speech, 8-10 for a question and answer session) |
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The Media Speech:
Write a script on behalf of a social cause
and present to a general television audience (8 min) |
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The Discussion Leader |
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The Seminar Solution:
Briefly discuss a topic, then lead a discussion
about that topic (20-30 min) |
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The Round Robin:
Use the circular discussion technique to brainstorm
a solution to a problem (20-30 min) |
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Pilot a Panel:
Act a moderator for a panel discussion that
will inform the audience (30-40 min) |
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Make It Make Believe (Role Playing):
Direct a role playing enactment that will help
solve a human relations problem (20-30 min) |
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The Workshop Leader:
Guide workshop participants through an investigative
discussion of a problem (30-40 min) |
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Specialty Speeches |
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Speak Off the Cuff:
Learn how to prepare for an improptu speaking
situation (5-7 min) |
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Uplift the Spirit:
Develop a speech style and delivery and moves
the audience to adopt your views (8-10 min) |
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Sell a Product:
Learn how to close a sale by using the four
steps of sales presentations (10-12 min) |
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Read Out Loud:
Understand the principles of presenting an
effective interpretive reading (12-15 min) |
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Introduce the Speaker:
Focus on the special occasion talk from the
standpoint of the introducer (13-15 min) |
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Speeches by Management |
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The Briefing:
Present critical information and then handle
a question and answer session (8-10 min for presentation,
5 min for questions and answers) |
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The Technical Speech:
Convert a technical paper or technical material
in a technical speech (8-10 min) |
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Manage and Motivate:
Deliver a motivational speech that will persuade
an audience to agree with your management proposal (10-12
min) |
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The Status Report:
Organize and prepare a status report according
to a four-step pattern (10-12 min) |
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Confrontation: The Adversary Relationship:
Prepare for a confrontation on a controversial
management issue (5 min for speech, 10 min for question
and answer session) |
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The Professional Speaker |
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The Keynote Address:
Learn how to meet audience expectations and
fit your style to the occasion (15-20 min) |
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Speaking to Entertain:
Use personalized material to entertain and
establish rapport (15-20 min) |
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The Sales Training Speech:
Demonstrate to a sales audience the dynamics
of successful presentations (15-20 min) |
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The Professional Speaker:
Plan and present a seminar with specific learning
objectives (20-40 min) |
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The Motivational Speech:
Deliver a speech that persuades your audience
to emotionally commit to an action (15-20 min) |
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Technical Presentations |
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The Technical Briefing:
Tailor your technical material into a concise
presentation (8-10 min) |
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The Proposal:
Prepare a presentation advocating a product,
service, idea or course of action, then conduct a question
and answer period (8-10 min for presentation, 3-5 min
for questions) |
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The Nontechnical Audience:
Communicate complex information to nontechnical
listeners (10-12 min) |
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Presenting a Technical Paper:
Deliver an interesting speech based on a technical
paper or article (10-12 min) |
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The Team Technical Presentation:
Orchestrate the planning, preparation and delivery
of a team technical presentation (20-30 min) |
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Persuasive Speaking |
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The Effective Salesperson:
Learn a technique for selling an inexpensive
product in a retail store (8-12- min) |
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Conquering the "Cold Call":
Learn a technique for cold call selling of
expensive products or services (10-14 min) |
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The Winning Proposal:
Prepare a proposal advocating an idea or course
of action (5-7 min) |
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Addressing the Opposition:
Prepare a talk on a controversial subject that
persuades an audience to accept or at least consider
your viewpoint (7-9 min for speech, 2-5 min for questions
and answers) |
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The Persuasive Leader:
Communicate your vision and mission to an audience
(6-8 min) |
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Communicating on Television |
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Straight Talk:
Present your opinion as if it were part of
a television broadcast (3 min +- 30 secs) |
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The Talk Show:
Prepare for a televised interview and present
a positive image (10 min +- 30 secs) |
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When You're the Host:
Conduct a successful interview and project
a positive image on camera (10 min +- 30 secs) |
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The Press Conference:
Employ appropriate methods and strategies for
communicating your organization's viewpoint (4-6 min
for presentation, 8-10 min for questions and answers) |
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Training on Television:
Learn how to develop and present an effective
training program on television (5-7 min for presentation,
plus 5-7 min for video playback) |
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Storytelling |
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The Folk Tale:
Tell a folk tale using vivid imagery and voice
to enhance the tale (7-9 min)
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Let's Get Personal:
Create and tell an original story based on
a personal experience (6-8 min) |
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The Moral of the Story:
Create a story that offers a lesson or moral
(4-6 min) |
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The Touching Story:
Tell a story that encourages emotional feelings
(6-8 min) |
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Bringing History to Life:
Tell a story about an historical event or person
(7-9 min) |
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Interpretive Reading |
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Read a Story:
Learn to present an effective reading by applying
vocal techniques (8-10 min) |
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Interpreting Poetry:
Recognize how poets use imagery, rhythm, meter,
cadence and rhyme (6-8 min) |
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The Monodrama:
Portray a character's physical and emotional
aspects (5-7 min) |
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The Play:
Portray several characters in one reading (12-15
min) |
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The Oratorical Speech:
Interpret and present a famous speech (10-12
min) |
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Interpersonal Communication |
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Conversing with Ease:
Identifying techniques to use in conversing
with strangers (10-14 min) |
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The Successful Negotiator:
Employ win/win negotiating strategies to achieve
your goals (10-14 min) |
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Diffusing Verbal Criticism:
Respond non-defensively to verbal criticism
(10-14 min) |
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The Coach:
Coach an individual to improved performance
(10-14 min) |
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Asserting Yourself Effectively:
Learn how to address a problem and receive
help (10-14 min) |
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Special Occasion Speeches |
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Mastering the Toast:
Present a toast honoring an occasion or a person
(2-3 min) |
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Speaking in Praise:
Prepare a speech praising or honoring someone,
either living or dead (5-7 min) |
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The Roast:
Conduct a humorous and positive recognition
of a particular person (3-5 min) |
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Presenting an Award:
Present an award with dignity and grace (3-4
min) |
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Accepting an Award:
Accept an award with dignity, grace and sincerity
(5-7 min) |
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Humorously Speaking |
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Warm Up Your Audience:
Prepare a speech that opens with a humorous
story (5-7 min)
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Leave Them With A Smile:
Prepare a serious speech that opens and closes
with humorous stories (5-7 min) |
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Make Them Laugh:
Prepare a speech that opens and closes with
humorous stories (5-7 min) |
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Keep Them Laughing:
Prepare a speech that opens with a self-deprecating
story (5-7 min) |
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The Humorous Speech:
Use exaggeration to tell a humorous story (5-7
min) |
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