Australia's Public Speaking Coach: What are the best way to improve your public speaking skills?

Saturday, June 9, 2007

What are the best way to improve your public speaking skills?

There are a number of great ways to improve your public speaking skills. Below is a list of some of the best.

Toastmasters: Toastmasters is the worlds leading organisation for teaching public speaking. Based in the USA, it has clubs all over the world. This link will take you to Toastmasters in Australia. I have been a member of Toastmasters in South Australia for years and have benefited greatly from it. Another organisation that can help with this is Australia's Rostrum. Rostrum has their own program designed to improve your public speaking skills

The second way to improve your public speaking skills is to attend a "private" public speaking course. This link will take you to a one-day course. You can get extended public speaking courses that offer more information.

One-on-one public speaking coaching will allow you to really improve your skills. Often CEO's and the like use one-on-one coaching to refine their skills to allow them to be the leader they need to be.

You can visit various public speaking websites to get information for free on them. Some great ones are Executive Speaking, David Brooks, the public speaking blog, Tom Antion, and of course this blog as it grows!

Read articles on public speaking. You can get great articles on public speaking by trawling the net.

Join the National Speakers Association. While this association does not teach public speaking in the same way that Toastmasters does, it will give you the skills that build on Toastmasters training. There are National Speakers associations all over the world. I am a member of the National Speakers Association of Australia

Finally, you can just get out there and practice. As the the 2001 Word Champion of Public Speaking Darren LaCroix says, "Stage time, Stage time, Stage time" is the best way to improve. Just get up and have a go. You wont be as bad as you think you are - no one ever is.

'til next time.

Cheers

Darren Fleming

Australia's Public Speaking Coach

www.executivespeaking.com.au

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Who is Darren Fleming

Darren Fleming is Australia's Public Speaking Coach. For over 13 years Darren has taught public speaking and confidence skills across Australia. During this time he has helped numerous companies increase their confidence in public speaking. He has appeared in national publications such as BRW, MyBusiness and newspapers as an expert on public speaking and communication skills. In May 2007, Darren outspoke over 2000 other speakers from across Australia to win the 2007 Impromptu Speaking Championship for Toastmasters International. In 2003 he completed degree in Psychology, and drew upon his wide-ranging experience to form Executive Speaking. Today Darren takes his skills and knowledge to businesses seeking to gain that competitive advantage.