Three Techniques for making Great Speeches

Have you ever stopped to ask what the secrets of some famous and well-renowned speakers are? Just in case you have spent considerable time, wondering what they have that you do not seem to have this might be helpful. The truth of the matter is that it all boils down to the techniques that they employ in their presentations. Three very important ones are treated below and if well used might just be what you need to have everyone wowed at the end of your presentation.

Rhetorical Questions - Sometimes when you ask questions solely for effect it stimulates your audience mentally and keeps their interest level in your presentation on the high side. It is best to use this when you have made some very interesting point and it works best when the aim of your speech is to be persuasive. For example if you are interested in getting lawmakers to pass a legislation on bearing firearms, you can paint a picture showing a possible consequence and then ask a question to make the effect felt to a greater degree.

Power of 3 - Repetition is the essence of using this highly effective technique and it is meant to be a way to stress a particular point in your presentation. This is a means of either saying the same thing in three different ways or of saying three different statements that seem to have the same meaning e.g. Terrorism is immoral, Terrorism is illegal, and Terrorism is condemnable. By doing this you will have succeeded in saying the same thing three times and in three different ways. The good part is that if anyone in the audience missed the first part they would not miss the others else, they would not be in the audience anyway! On the other hand, a reinforcement of your message is what took place, as your audience will know why you had to say it three different times.

Use of Pause - There is no train in the world that runs non-stop is there. That just means it is good to pause from time to time if not to catch your breath - breath control is another subject matter entirely anyway - then to let your message sink. When you pause for effect in your presentation it drives home the point more than a thousand words can ever possibly can. Many speakers take pauses that are too long such that people in the audience begin to wonder if those speakers have run out of ideas. This is not the reference in this piece; remember it is all about pausing for effect in a bid to add value to the message and not to detract from it. Mark Twain's words are instructive, "The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause".

The more practice you get at using these techniques the better your proficiency level will be.