The 3 Ps in Speechmaking - Pace, Poise and Polish.
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How many Ps are there is speechmaking? You'd be forgiven for saying that there was just one. In fact, if you intend to make a speech, you had better remember that there are, in fact, three Ps in speechmaking - Pace, Poise and Polish.
And if you can incorporate these three Ps into your speechmaking, you will be certain of making a good impression on just about any audience you may come across.
Pace. This P can make or break your speech - it's that important. Get this wrong and you will either bore your audience to tears OR they will be nudging their close neighbour to ask whether he could understand a garbled word you say.
Have you ever had the misfortune of listening to a speech made by a slow speaker? If you have, you'll already appreciate just how tedious a slow delivery can be. Even the most interesting topic will be made boring by a slow drawl and your audience will be itching to scream "Speed it up Buddy - I want to be home by Midnight!"
Delivering your speech too slowly is guaranteed to make even the most polite audience lose their patience with you.
If you pitch your pace too fast, on the other hand, listening to you will become too much like hard work and many people in your audience will simply lose the thread of what you are saying. Your job as a speaker is to make the audiences' task of listening to your speech as easy as possible and you should be trying as hard as you possibly can to alloow your audience the luxury of simply relaxing and letting your words seep effortlessly into their minds.
Speak fast enough to avoid your delivery becoming tedious yet slow enough to allow each member of your audience to easily take in your words and ideas. Be sure to vary your pace throughout your speech so that your presentation remains interesting and upbeat.
Poise. Most speakers believe that the subject matter of their presentation is all that is important and spend most of their time worrying about the actual construction of their speech. They are happy to spend hours collecting snippets of information, organising it into an acceptible order, selecting an appropriate opening and closing style and making sure that the rhythm and flow of their words is just right.
And of course, all that effort is certainly required to produce an excellent speech. But that's not the end of it. How you present yourself is just as important as how you present your words.
Take a moment to run through this checklist before you step out in front of your audience:
1. Is your clothing presentable, clean, appropriate and arranged correctly? 2. Is your hair neatly combed? 3. Does your body language convey the right impression?
Your audience will start forming their opinion of you from the very first time that they set eyes on you and certainly long before you begin your speech. Your poise - that is, the visual impression given to the audience - will be the first thing that will influence their opinion.
Make sure that your impression is a positive one.
Polish. This is what will make a good speech great! It is also the thing that will enable you to rid yourself of any pre-speech nerves. Thorough preparation is the key to most things in life and speaking in public is no exception.
Rehearse your speech in front of a mirror, or better still, in front of your friends and family. Become very familiar with the content of your speech, the most effective style of delivery, the incorporation of suitable gestures - anything that you feel needs to be practised until it becomes second nature.
Set aside time to scrutinise your stage clothes and pay close attention to how you stand and move. Don't lean, don't hunch, don't slouch and don't allow yourself to display any outward signs of tension. You must polish your performance until it sparkles! Whilst in front of your audience you must always appear relaxed, confident and in control at all times - even if you don't feel it.
Pace, Poise and Polish - if you can remember these three Ps in 'speechmaking' you can guarantee that your speech will be delivered in such a manner that any audience will be entertained, enraptured and enthralled by your performance.
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