Whether at a gathering of tens of thousands of people or a meeting of a dozen people, it is not easy to make your speech attractive. Professor Delshowitz pointed out that no matter what kind of speech, its preparation is very important. Known as the most famous criminal defense lawyer in the world, dershowitz, a professor at Harvard Law School, has been teaching at Harvard Law School since he was 25 years old. At the age of 28, he was named the youngest full-time professor of law school. He won thousands of lawsuits, and his defense skills attracted the attention of American lawyers.
He has taught speech skills at Harvard University many times. In his view, preparing a wonderful speech can be divided into four steps.
1. Select the appropriate theme.
The right theme should be what impresses you the most. In public, the only way to relax is to know what you want to say and be completely confident. For example, when American hostages were detained in Iran, their wives were interviewed on TV. Although they have no formal training, they are always eloquent when making TV speeches. This is because their eloquence comes from the heart.
Choose the topic that the audience is most interested in and give a brief hint. If you want to talk about improving office efficiency or introducing a plan to the company's board of directors, you should emphasize the profits it brings. If you want to give a speech to a task executor, you should focus on how to make their work more convenient. It must be understood that every listener has the same idea-what can I get from it.
2. Logical combination of themes
First of all, you need an opening statement, usually a short statement of the problem you want to talk about. Then there is the body part, including the main content you want to explain. There should also be an ending, which can be used to summarize the whole speech and can be summarized as: preview, announcement and summary. In addition, it is best to quote some commonly used allusions and famous sayings to explain what you want to say, so that the audience can easily remember what you said and follow your thoughts.
Rehearse alone
After the rehearsal content is ready, it needs to be rehearsed separately. It's best to finish the exercise by yourself, because you are going to make a speech in public, not discuss it with others alone. When practicing, you should also imagine the reactions of the audience, so that when you really speak, you will feel relaxed and calm.
4. Short outline
The most taboo in making a speech is to hold the manuscript paper and read it according to the book. It makes people feel that nature is impossible. If necessary, you can simply write down the title of the main content on a small note. A quick glance at the notes during the speech can make you think. You know, the more complicated the manuscript paper, the more useless it is. The less you read the manuscript paper, the more you can communicate with the audience.
It is very important to improvise in your speech. Although you have prepared the outline of your speech perfectly, if you are not good at it, it will be difficult for you to attract the audience and your speech will not be successful. Therefore, if you want to be comfortable and successful in your speech, you can do three steps in your speech.
1. Communicate with the audience
As an orator, if you want to make your speech attractive, you must be rich in content, fluent in language and firmly grasp the psychology of the audience. This requires that your speech should be close to life, talk more about what the audience likes, be concise, and use more examples and anecdotes, so as to help you build feelings with the audience. When giving a speech, you must look at the audience and ask them for friendly and enthusiastic support, so as to make your speech more colorful and thus close the emotional distance between you and the audience.
2. Don't apologize
If you find something wrong with your speech, don't mention it. If the audience is indifferent, just ignore it. Stay calm and look relaxed. If you forget what you want to say, don't tell the audience (the audience won't know unless you tell them). You can repeat what you just said in order to get a chance to think or continue talking about other things. Even if you feel nervous and stage fright, don't panic. You should know that a certain degree of nervousness is beneficial.
Initiate a climax
You should have a predetermined speech purpose and always focus on this purpose in your speech. Don't make a long speech. Finally, people should put the call into action.
Speech is argumentative, although it also tells facts, describes and expresses feelings, but those are just means, and discussion is the overall characteristics and requirements of speech. Mainly explain your own views, opinions and attitudes, or complain, or explain, or mobilize, or encourage, or clarify, in short, it is reasonable.
Speech is face-to-face reasoning in spoken language. It can't write tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of words like written language, nor can it use long simple sentences and long complex sentences with strict argumentation and many additional components like written language. Because once the sentence is too long, it will be compact, but the audience's listening can't keep up, and it is not easy to contact and understand, so it is not easy to grasp the meaning of the whole sentence. It is precisely because of these two points that another feature of spoken English is brought: conciseness and power.
Please look at a speech made by Roosevelt on February 8th, 194 1, entitled "A Day with Decades of History".
Yesterday, the attack on the Hawaiian Islands caused serious losses to the US navy and army forces.
I regret to tell you that many Americans have lost their lives. In addition, it is reported that American ships were also torpedoed on the high seas between San Francisco and Honolulu.
Yesterday, the Japanese government launched an attack on Malaysia.
Last night, Japanese troops attacked China and Hongkong.
Last night, Japanese troops attacked the Philippine Islands.
Last night, the Japanese attacked wake island.
This morning, the Japanese attacked midway island.
In this famous speech, Roosevelt enumerated a large number of facts, which fully explained that Japanese aggression was a premeditated act and effectively exposed the ugly face of the Japanese militaristic aggressor.
The characteristics of brevity and powerfulness refer not only to the brevity and powerfulness of sentences (which is of course very important), but also to the brevity and powerfulness of length.
Please look at a speech by Yu Dafu.
What I want to talk about today is the basic concept of literary and artistic creation, which is the key to three words: fast-that is, happy, writing fast; Brief-concise; Life-just don't digress, words convey meaning. Speaking and writing are the same, and this is the principle I am talking about now.
Don't talk nonsense, it's too far from the point, or it's as smelly and long as a foot wrap. It's over!
The full text of Yu Dafu's speech is less than 100 words, which is really "extremely short". But he is a great writer with rich content, large amount of information, tight organization and wonderful language. Although it is only 100, it is worth a thousand words! Famous speeches, such as Engels' speech at the tomb of Jenny von Marx, Lincoln's "The Russian Vows Here" (Gettysburg Address), Nixon's "The Most Precious Moment in Human History" (1969 Nixon's speech on the astronauts' first successful landing on the moon), and Sun Yat-sen's seemingly innate moral concept of "helping the weak and helping the poor" are all well known.