This speaking stuff is actually quite hard to do. As with all such things in life, if  it is hard to do then there must be people who understand the importance  of public speaking and are willing to pay you to do it. Right?  

The answer to this question turns out to be “yes”. Once you’ve been  speaking for a while you may start to think about “going pro” – having someone pay you to give a speech.  

This can open a number of doors for you; however, before you take this  step you need to realize that there is a lot that you need to know  before you start making your living by giving speeches. 

When we are asked to give a presentation, sometimes it comes with a twist. 

The twist is that other people have been asked to give the same presentation at the same time. What this means for us is that we are now going to be part of a group presentation and the rules for giving a presentation have now been changed.  

A group presentation can be a very powerful thing and can allow us to  share the importance of public speaking; however, if we going to do this  correctly, then we need to make sure that we know how to go about doing  it the right way. 

By now I’m pretty sure that most of us are somewhat comfortable with the  concept of giving a speech by ourselves. 

Yes, it can be a very nerve  racking thing to do, but over time we get used to the process of  understanding the importance of public speaking and accepting the  opportunity, creating a speech, practicing it, and then finally giving  it. However, it turns out that this is not the only way that speeches  get given. There is also a variant called the group speech. This is exactly what it sounds like: a group of people get up on the stage and they all work together to deliver a single speech. 

These can be great speeches to both give and listen to; however, they require special techniques to build them correctly. 

When it comes time to deliver a presentation, we don’t always do it alone. 

Sometimes we are called upon to participate in a group presentation.  These can be tricky to do correctly. No matter who the presentation is  going to be given to, we need to realize that the most important thing  about the presentation is that it has to give the impression that it was all put together by a single person  in order to deliver the importance of public speaking. 

This is the  challenge that you face every time you get asked to participate in a  group presentation. 

So how do you feel about your audience? 

Do you like them? Maybe we can  take this one step further – do you love them? Do you want them to love  you? When you consider the fact that your audience probably has never  met you before, this might seem like a bit of a stretch goal even if you  understand the importance of public speaking. However, as a speaker you have some pretty incredible powers. 

You have the ability to make your audience fall in love with you if your speech can seduce them, engage their minds, and finally win their hearts. 

When we give a speech, one of our goals for giving the speech is to find  a way to use the importance of public speaking to convince our audience  about something. In order to sway their opinion, we often go looking  for data that will support the point that we are trying to make. 

Although data can be a powerful tool that can help us to get people to agree with our point-of-view, it can also turn an audience away.  If we use too much data in a speech or if we present it in a way that  causes our audience to tune out, then we will have hurt our chances of  convincing our audience. 

How can use a speaker use data in the right  way? 

For some odd reason, technical people seem to have a deep set fear of speaking in pubic.  

Now I’m a technical person, so I feel a personal linkage to this issue.  Where does this problem come from? I think that the problem originates  from the fact that people who have dived into a technical field more  often than not are less extroverted than other people.  They will often go to great lengths to avoid having themselves placed  into situations where they will be required to speak in public. This can  be a real disadvantage for them because often they have a great deal of technical information that they need to share with others. 

How can we go about fixing this problem? 

It takes a lot of effort to create a speech. 

You have to write it,  practice it, and eventually deliver it. As long as we are going to all  of this effort and because of the importance of public speaking, it sure  seems as though we should also be trying to find ways to grab our audience’s attention and hold on to it throughout our speech.  As easy as this is to say, it turns out that it’s actually quite  difficult to do. One thing that we need to understand is that we know  how we view the world. However, what a lot of us don’t know is how the  world views us. 

If  we can figure this out, then we can become more confident and even more  authentic to our audiences and we’ll be able to grab on to their  attention. 

 How good of yeller are you? 

I mean, if you were giving a speech in a  really big room that was crowded with people, could you yell your speech  loud enough to make sure that even the people in the back could hear  what you were saying? If you are like me, you might be able to do this  for a while, but you sure could not do it for an entire speech. That’s why we need help when we find ourselves in situations like this. This is when the microphone comes in to play.  However, it turns out that using a microphone is not as simple as it  might initially appear. 

There is a right way to go about doing this and a  wrong way. 

As speakers, every time that we deliver a speech, we’d like to be able to use the importance of public speaking to draw our audience into our speech. 

We’d like to make it so that they experience what we are telling them. A great way to make this happen is to include stories in our speech.  Stories allow us to introduce outside characters, move the talk to a  new location, and if we want even to move through time. However, a story  can be a tricky thing to include in a speech. 

As speakers we need to  make sure that when we include a story in our speech, we go about doing  it the right way.