Public Speaking-  Top Tips for Speech Writing

Asked to do a presentation, a speech?

Speech writing is different than other forms of writing.  The best speeches are written not to be read but to be heard.

Get into the joy of speeches and writing.   Maximize your chances of saying something well by writing the speech to be heard.

Here are some tips for direct, clear, appealing speech writing.

• Shorter sentences
• Sentences of varying length
• Concrete ideas
• Fewer words
• Active tense
• Repetition of main points

The general rule of thumb is that for every minute you plan to speak you should schedule an hour of preparation time.  I love that simple advice.  Better to be forewarned than surprised about how long it takes to do the preparation which includes  writing, rewriting and rehearsal.

Also good for you to know is that few speeches are longer than twenty minutes, and most are shorter.

Be sure to watch our English Speech Tips videos and Accent Reduction Tip videos  for more English pronunciation and accent reduction exercise.

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Fine Tune Your Listening

Find out what people want and need.  Listen for the following phrases:

“ I want …”

“I need…”

“My goal is to …”

“I’m having a problem with…”

“I’m looking for …”

“I’m involved in a project that …”

English Communication-  Connecting: Here’s Tips for a Profile for Online Dating

Connecting to people and building relationship is one of those golden endeavors of life.  For the avenue of online dating, you need to write an online dating profile.  Here are some tips for that.

Before writing a profile, make a few lists:

• Hobbies
• Values you think are important
• Your preferences for kinds of social settings: large or more intimate, or both
• Friends- do you have many or prefer to have fewer but very close friends
• Importance of family
• Like to travel?

Your profile:  Mention a couple of  items from your lists.

• Make it on the short side
• Men seem less likely to read profiles than women
• Length of profile might depend on type of relationship you are interested in
  • If you are looking for long term relationship, adding a few more details can help others get a sense of whether or not they are compatible with you
• Share a few details about your interests
  • That makes it easier for another person to know if they have things in common with you
  • Gives other people topics to start a conversation
  • Consider sharing the book you are currently reading or next theater performance or movie you would like to see
• Stay positive
  • Example: You love highly motivated people or physically active people
• Check your profile for grammar
• Making the profile light and fun is good
• Consider checking out profiles of people of the same gender as you. Take notes on things you like and don’t like about their profiles and apply those ideas to your own.

Be sure to watch our English Speech Tips videos and Accent Reduction Tip videos  for more English pronunciation and accent reduction exercise.

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The Power of Listening and Responding- How to Develop Lifetime Customers

If you have a product or a service you sell, don’t think you are done when you have made the sale.  The sale is actually the beginning in building a client relationship that will lead to a lifetime of repeat business and referrals.

In addition, by listening and responding to their needs, you are adding value by thinking beyond what you can sell them and showing an interest in other aspects of their life and business.  This approach to being of service can set you apart from others in your industry.  By being a good listener and resource, you can develop clients into lifetime customers.

English Communication- Do and Don’t for Profile Picture for Online Dating

Using the route of online dating for connecting to people has been around for a while.  That’s good because it means there is a good amount of advice to be read and analyzed.  We’ll share with you some of those tips in this article.

To pursue the route of online dating, you need to make an online dating profile.  But before we get to that, here’s an important tip:

Typically people will look at your profile picture before they read your bio.  Here are several tips for your pictures to get you attuned to some concerns and goals.

Do:

• Consider communicating via your photo some of your hobbies or values
  • Example: you on a lake with friends indicates your love of the outdoors and value of friendship
• Include one close-up and one further-back picture to help people get an accurate idea of what you look like
• Use a current picture

Don’t:

• Always have sunglasses on since people want to see your face
• Have too many group photos where it is hard to tell which is you
• Forget the unspoken messages. Whatever you are looking for (which could range from wanting a serious relationship all the way to simply wanting to expand your circle of people to hang out with) consider the unspoken messages communicated via your clothes, the expression on your face, your body language
  • Remember that 55% of a person’s impression of you will come from what they see
    • For example, viewers seeing that all the profile pictures show the person with a bottle of beer or other alcoholic beverages communicates sets of impressions about the person.
    • Clothing and body posture communicate a great deal. Blue jeans, casual shirt, and relaxed posture communicate various sets of messages.  Other body postures with other sets of clothes communicate other sets of messages.    Clothing that fits super tight to the body along with body language from the face, arms and legs will generate other sets of interpretations.
    • One remedy is to be sure to post several pictures that somehow communicate several things about your personality and likes or interests.

Now that we have explored some ideas to think about for a profile picture, we’ll move to explore writing a profile next time.

Be sure to watch our English Speech Tips videos and Accent Reduction Tip videos  for more English pronunciation and accent reduction exercise.

Check out our new advanced weekly speech tip program, our new subscription called ClearTalk Weekly, www.subscription.cleartalkmastery.com