Tips for Effective Public Speaking and Debating Ideas

This presentation provides tips for effective public speaking and debating ideas. It emphasizes the importance of using simple language, engaging storytelling techniques, and open-ended discussions to keep the audience interested. It also highlights the differences between debates and discussions and the need to keep the end goal in mind.

Articulate, Present
and Debate ideas

Introduction
 Public speaking within a
group-based debate or in
front of the audience is never
an easy task to do
 A good preparation satisfying
all the elements of a good
presentation is mandatory
 Pubic speaking should be
made in the form of stories
rather telling only the
statistics

How to analyse ideas for
communication to others?
The presentation should be
understandable to all:
 Use of jargons, uncommon
language and complex structure
of the presentation can e difficult
for the audience to understand
 The presentation should rather
be made using simple language
and following simpler
presentation protocol
(Hua et al. 016)

The contents should be engaging
 Boring statistics should be avoided
 The presentation should have statistics explained in the form of storytelling
 The presentation should be open-ended
 This should provide opportunities to the audience for sharing their opinion and asking the questions
(Hua et al. 016)

Use of storytelling techniques
 Storytelling are good techniques to engage the audience
 Storytelling can be in various forms like leadership, change, training and development etc.
(Hua et al. 016)

Conducting question-answer session
 The audience should be given the opportunity to ask questions
 Questions depend a lot on how the contents of the presentation was designed
 The speaker should be able to guess the kind of questions the audience will pose
(Hua et al. 016)

How to provoke response and
reaction?
State uncommon facts:
 The presentation should never be
made predictable
 The audience should rather keep
guessing each and every part of it
 Uncommon facts that are not yet
being covered will take the
audience by surprise
 They will feel engaged to it
provided that the speaker is aware
of the art to engage the audience

Try to engage by saying something compelling
 The speaker should focus on engaging the audience
 This could be done by using some storytelling techniques
 This could also be done by allowing an open-ended question sessions with the audience
(Herbein et al. 2018)

Ask their opinion
 Keep encouraging the audience for their honest opinion is another way to engage
them with the presentation
 The speaker should be aware of the kinds of opinions that he or she will be getting
 This will be required to acknowledge promptly to their opinions
(Herbein et al. 2018)

The discussion should be open-ended
 This means allowing the audience to engage into opinion-giving and question-
asking sessions (Herbein et al. 2018)

Make them feel their opinion matters in the
concluding section
 The speaker needs to show that audience opinion matters to the presentation
 The speaker can do this by acknowledging all the opinions in the concluding part of the presentation
(Herbein et al. 2018)

How to debate and discuss ideas?
Establish common humanity:
 Debate and discussion are two separate things
 In a debate or a discussion the speaker should create a common harmony with the
audience or the other members
 Such presentation should have stories, not just statistics
 All experiences should be honored

Share stories instead of statistics
 The speaker
should use the
storytelling
techniques
rather than just
describing the
statistics
 It means
presenting facts
in an
entertaining and
engaging way
(Nash, Crimmins
and Oprescu 2016)

Honor their experience, question their
conclusion
 The experience
of every single
member in the
group should be
honored
 Their concluding
remarks about a
topic should be
questioned to
analyse the
appropriateness
of the remarks
(Nash, Crimmins
and Oprescu 2016)

Keep the end goal in mind
 The speaker should
never forget the end
goal
 He or she needs to
remember the end
goal during all
activities involved in a
presentation
 This will help the
speaker answer to the
questions being posed
by the listeners and
the audiences
(Hostetler and Kahl 2016)

Conclusion
 Public speaking can be improved by following all the protocols of a
good presentation
 There are differences between debates and discussions
 Debates attract heated discussions. This should be controlled by
following the suggested protocol of a debate
 The speaker during any kind of a presentation should never forget the
end goals

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