A new year, a new start! Now that we’re just a week into 2013, it is still not too late to start making your New Year resolutions if you’ve not already done so.
A new year always brings about new possibilities and the many things we can do and change in our lives during the course of the year to bring more growth and prosperity.
Over the few decades as a public speaking trainer, I’ve seen individuals’ New Year resolutions constantly repeated year after year – to pursue their passion, to start a business, to become a confident public speaker, to overcome public speaking fears etc.
At the start, they may seem resolve to improve and amp up their public speaking efforts, to find themselves opportunities to speak in the public or to look for actionable public speaking course.
Yet, year and year again, these individuals will quickly find themselves facing the same problem plaguing them – lack of time!
There’s good news though. It is very much possible to work on your presentation skills by following a simple checklist, the exact same one bosses from big corporations use to progressively improve the different aspects of their public speaking skills.
Just make sure that you go through the public speaking training checklist and act on them regularly and you can get ready to watch the inevitable upward progress of your public speaking efforts.
Get a Public Speaking Coach
Honing your presentation skills is not something you can do it once and check off from your to-do list. Even the best athletes have coaches, so why not you? Just like any other coaches, a public speaking coach holds you accountable for your own progress and conducts regular checks on you if you’ve been actively seeking improvements in your speech writing or in the delivery of your speeches. A public speaking coach should be able to point out the mistakes you make, offer feasible, bite-size and actionable suggestions for you to make incremental improvements and nudge you out of your comfort zone to do more, be more and have more!
Choose and Attend a Toastmaster Club
In order to get fit you’ve to start doing your own push-ups. Likewise, in order to become a better public speaker, you’ve to start delivering speeches. Joining a Toastmaster Club is probably one of the best investments you can make. Not only will you get to meet like-minded individuals, you will also have the chance to learn from one another’s diverse background. Toastmaster Club also offers one of the cheapest presentation skills training with seasoned public speakers to help guide you along the way. Don’t only look for the Toastmaster Club that is nearest to you but find the one with the most number of active members. Of course, ensuring its weekly or monthly chapter meetings actually fits into your schedule is another important consideration.
Attend Public Speaking Courses
What better way to learn better presentation skills and techniques than to learn from the true experts? For many, when seeking out public speaking courses, the course fee is always the determining factor which should not be! Instead focus on the return of investment (ROI). Learn from the public speaking trainers who have a wealth of experience and achievements under his or her belt. Cheap presentation skills training aren’t that cheap after all if you consider the amount of learning lessons you can take home with you – limited.
Get Your Public Speaking Training Online
Articles like this are plentiful on the internet. For example you can subscribe to our RSS feeds, Toastmaster International website or their or its YouTube channel. These websites and more provide quality and free presentation skills training at no cost!
Create Your Own Swipe File
Have you come across a speaker who is able to mesmerize you with his words? How exactly does he structure his speech that makes it so persuasive and engaging? What are the possible jokes or humor he injects into his speech that help draws his audience closer to him? How does he make use of phases to bring emphasis to the points he wish to point out? Be an active learner and make your own swipe files and analysis what makes a speaker better than the other. This active learning will bring you a long way into becoming a truly confident and persuasive public speaker!
Having difficulty in finding a suitable public speaking course or one-on-one public speaking coaching trainer? Well, look no further.
Regardless if you’re looking to hone your presentation skills, overcome your fear of public speaking, to learn powerful speech writing techniques or to become a more effective Master of Ceremonies, Ernest Chen will have the presentation skills training workshop just for you!
Visit Ernest Chen’s official website at http://www.EarnestlySpeaking.com today and choose the most appropriate presentation skills training workshops that meets your publi speaking needs!
