PUBLIC SPEAKING

Public Speaking

Public Speaking

Introduction

Appropriate and effective communications are essential if a person intends to put across his ideas, content and messages. The art of affectively conveying the message or your thoughts play a pivotal role in one's life. Unless you are able to make the other person understands your stance, your position both in argument and debate becomes weak.

It can also be detrimental if important information is bound to be conveyed to others, and when a person lacks the ability to send across the information with confidence and conviction, the real essence of the information is lost, and it can back fire the person or even the organization. Moreover, if a person lacks the art of proper and effective speaking, that too in front of a group, then not only will it result in miscommunication, but the inability will result in several psychological effects, such as anxiety, fear and the nervousness; and the information or content stemming from that anxiety effect will be total irrelevant and bear no connection with the subject. This essay encompasses the understanding of public speaking, its significance and advantages, issues causing the fear of speaking in front of a group, its significance in several forums and the analysis.

Public Speaking

In general, the term public speaking denotes the activity of speaking to a group of individuals with a purpose or intention of transmitting some vital information, or shape or regulate other people's opinions, or with the purpose of amusing the addressees. The activity of public speaking is conducted with an objective which entails the purpose or question of, as to who is being addressed by whom, regarding what matter and issue, via what particular medium, causing what type and form of effects. This prior mentioned question clearly entails that, before a speaker conducts or initiates a public speaking session, he or she must be clearly aware of his/her target audience, their frame of mind and the issues they are expecting to hear. The medium also plays a critical role, if the target audiences are not acquainted or comfortable with the medium being used, they will not be able to concentrate properly. Here, the effectiveness of the speaker matters a lot. If the speaker does not put forward his/her view points or arguments with conviction, chances are that his/her words will not leave a great and lasting impact. The prominent quality of a good and adept public speaker is that he has the ability of molding people's view and emotions; moreover, during his sessions the audience is equally involved and energetic as he is (Kleiser, 2010).

Public speaking is a hard and demanding talent. Not all are gifted with this talent and ability. Some people are born good communicator; however, others acquire the talent later in life with the help of untiring efforts and determination.

As discussed earlier that, in some cases, public speaking comes as a natural talent, this may mean that the speaker is confident by nature and possess a charismatic personality. However, enduring these natural gifts does not ...