PUBLIC SPEAKING,
Public speaking is the process of designing and delivering a message to an
audience. For that reason effective public speaking involves understanding your
audience and speaking goals, choosing elements for the speech that will engage
your audience with your topic, and delivering your message skillfully. Good
public speakers understand that they must plan, organize, and revise their
material in order to develop an effective speech. (Michelle J. Dyett)
On the other hand
Public speaking
refers to the process of speaking which follows structured manner that intends
to inform, to persuade and to entertain. While public speaker refers to a
person who delivers speech or, lecture to the group of people in a structured,
deliberate manner intended to inform, influence or entertain the audience.
By the
sometime!
Public speaking
is commonly understood as face to face speaking between individuals and
audience for the purpose of communication .It is closely allied to presentation
although sometimes the latter is more often associated with commercial
activities of the time public speakers aiming to persuade the audiences. Public
speaking performs the following roles;
1.
It persuade (convince audiences to react on new message)
2.
It informs about danger, news, and climatic change
3.
It Entertains (comedy or jokes)
But
in order to make effective speech the following elements of communicating are
necessary to be considered;
1)
Channel
2)
Message.
3)
Receiver.
4)
Feedback.
The
above elements of communication help a speaker to determine his/her audience
especially when there is feedback. After all it is very important to determine
the appropriate media pass or to use when presenting the speech to a given
society. Key
issue to note as a public speaker it is the biggest concerns that some people
have with the interactional model of communication. It tends to place people
into the category of either source or receiver with no overlap. Even with
Schramm’s model, encoding and decoding are perceived as distinct for sources
and receivers. On top of that, the interactional model cannot handle situations
where multiple sources are interacting at the same time.
Protocol is
the etiquette of diplomacy and affairs of state. Also is an international
agreement that supplements or amends treaty. On the other side rule which
describes how an activity should be performed, especially in field of
diplomacy.
On the other hand
A
protocol is a set of rules
and formats that govern the communication between communicating peers. A
protocol is necessary for any function that requires cooperation between peers.
In addition to the above definition
Protocol, can be simply defined as
regulation and customs and formality or preselected and etiquette on ways
things are run in national state government and organization. In any society or organization there is the ways which
individuals conduct their activities, sometimes protocol can be observed since
the activities started to run in the community or in a nation.
Diplomatic Protocol’s, refers the way
which cares about procedures precelence, customs, tradition, etiquette and
regulation which is conducted in a particular nation. Diplomatic dealing with
careering the status core and special behavior in a particular society.
Diplomatic is highly dealing with the quest of honor, how interstate conflicts
are solved; in briery it is all about national and world wide. The state visit
can be taken as a good example for a diplomatic protocol from the first stage
when receiving the guest up to the last stage when he/she go to rater to
the prepared room for him/her to sleep.
It is very important to put in our mind that diplomacy is all about the
tactical way, an intelligent way of managing relation between nations.
Where By;
Diplomatic services and
governmental fields of protocols are often unwritten
guidelines. Protocols specify the
proper and general accepted behavior in matters of
state and diplomacy, that shows, and
appropriate the respect to a head of state, ranking diplomats in chronological order of their
accreditation at court and so on said ” John Hopkins.”
Things
to put into
consideration when preparing public
speaking to enhance diplomatic protocol.
Record
yourself before presentation, this can helping by doing the practice before
the presentation to the audience do you want to entertain, information, persuade
or to educate? Preparing yourselfer it is better than looking into the mirror,
so much than writing down on the paper. By the time you will be record yourself
make sure you repeat again and again as
much as you can in order to choose the
best record that you are going to
presenting to the mass of audience and try your
level best to manage the time
especially in30 seconds of introduction.
Ethics, The study of ethics in human
communication is hardly a recent endeavor. One of the earliest discussions of
ethics in communication (and particularly in public speaking) was conducted by
the ancient Greek philosopher Plato in his dialogue Phaedrus. In the centuries
since Plato’s time, an entire subfield within the discipline of human
communication has developed to explain and understand communication ethics.
Battling Nerves and the
Unexpected
One of your biggest concerns
about public speaking might be how to deal with nervousness or unexpected
events. Some people are not joking when they say they would rather die than
stand up and speak in front of a live audience. The fear of public speaking
ranks right up there with the fear of flying, death, and spiders. Even if you
are one of the fortunate few who don’t typically get nervous when speaking in
public, it’s important to recognize things that can go wrong and be mentally
prepared for them. Speaking confidently involves knowing how to deal with these
and other unexpected events while speaking. The fact is that it is normal
reaction good speakers can get nervous just as poor speakers do.
Telling a joke or two is always a good way to begin a speech. Humor is some of the toughest material to deliver effectively
because it requires an exquisite sense of timing. Nothing is worse than waiting
for a laugh that does not come. Moreover, one person’s joke is another person’s
slander. It is extremely easy to offend when using humor. The same material can
play very differently with different audiences. For these reasons, it is not a
good idea to start with a joke, particularly if it is not well related to your
topic. If you insist on using humor, make sure the “joke” is on you, not on
someone else. Another tip is never to pause and wait for a laugh that may not
come. If the audience catches the joke, fine. If not, you’re not left standing
in awkward silence waiting for a reaction.
Avoid creating fake imagination
such as imagining that the audiences are naked. This tip just plain doesn’t work
because imagining the audience naked will do nothing to calm your nerves. The
audience is not some abstract image in your mind. It consists of real
individuals who you can connect with through your material. To “imagine” the
audience is to misdirect your focus from the real people in front of you to an
“imagined” group. The fact is that what we imagine is usually more threatening
than the reality that we face.
Any mistake means that you have “blown it.” We all make mistakes and there is common say that “We learn from
our past mistake or others mistake.” What matters is not whether we make a mistake
but how well we recover. We usually hear people making a mistake when talking
to each other for example one may be herd say,” bad fiend is one who cares
about you.” instead of saying,” best friend”. Make sure that soon after the
audience stopped laughing at you for the mistake have done, you remark that,
“Well, I guess the best friend now!” You
just have to make an effort to relate to the audience naturally and be willing
to accept your mistakes.
Avoid memorizing and too much reading of speech. Memorizing your speech word for word will likely make your
apprehension worse rather than better. Instead of remembering three to five
main points and sub points, you will try to commit to memory more than a
thousand bits of data. If you forget a point, the only way to get back on track
is to start from the beginning. You are inviting your mind to go blank by
overloading it with details. In addition, audiences do not like to listen to
“canned,” or memorized, material. Your delivery is likely to suffer if you
memorize. Audiences appreciate speakers who talk naturally to them rather than
recite a written script.
Avoid nervous, the research
has shown that audiences do not perceive the level of nervousness that speakers
report feeling. Most listeners judge speakers as less anxious than the speakers
rate themselves. In other words, the audience is not likely to perceive
accurately the level of anxiety you might be experiencing. Some of the most
effective speakers will return to their seats after their speech and exclaim
they were so nervous. Listeners will respond, “You didn’t look nervous.”
Audiences do not necessarily perceive our fears. Consequently, don not
apologize for your nerves.
Timing,
a good persuader or public speaker must train him/herself on how to manage the
time simply because time management is essential tool in persuasion and public
speaking no matter how you speak from experience and revealing the speech which
is packaged with evidence or having possessed good techniques of public
speaking time management is much needed your speech must accede 30 minutes if
it long let not be not more than 45 minutes. The shorter the speech is the
better the chances you hold the audience’s attention.
Get ready for questions, even
awkward question; make inner research about the topic your
about to reveal and do not answer
any question which you have no evidence or data with because one may ask
question just to trap you. Tell them to see you after presentation but should
not be more than once be ready to answer the next question.
It is wisdom for a public speaker to be
natural; you should always be how your and not somebody
else. In term of pronunciation, dressing style, body movement, body languages
like eye contacts, pretending to speak like so body else. Not only that but
also it is wise to avoid unnecessary movement is better to position yourself
where every no will see you. But most of all learn how to pronounce words
properly in order to avoid ambiguity or to not understand. For that case avoid mother tongue
effects.
Dressing properly;
Better to avoid over dressing (Warring too expensive cloth or shining clothes)
over makeup. Dress properly in
related to the audience you are talking to. Dressing style is a thing to
be considered by the public speakers; sometimes the audience starts to
criticize you because of your improper dressing even before you start the
speech and this will much depend on environment .Therefore in order to escape
this problem as a public speaker dress properly. In public speaking many people
fails to dress properly and this leads to the breaking of the content which
expected to be t received clearly by the audiences. In diplomatic protocol
dressing style means a lot we are supposed to dress in relevant to the event.
Telling a story for maximum impact,
it
very important cheap in the educative story into your speech so as to make it
more interesting. It is true that there some speakers who bores the to their
kind of speeches which are long and carries no jocks to entertain the audiences.
Public
speaking require more formal language, It is wise to remember that inform
vocabularies like Slang, jargon, and placing grammar where are not supposed to
be use it affects the credibility of your speech. Therefore as pubic speaker
and diplomatic practicing, use of form vocabularies and correct grammars are
essentials factors to be observed.
Public speaker should know culture
of target audience, knowing the culture of the targeted
audience help the public speaker to prepare the speech which is very attractive
and relevant to the environment of where is about to be revealed. If is a state
visit it will help speaker to prepare the sweet able speech to both side too
visitors and natives. Good example is Hon. President of United State of America
Barak Obama to the mass of audience from four corners of the world who attended
funnel ceremony of the famous ant apartheid rate Nelson Mandera when he used Zuru
word Omundu the mass loudly shouted because happiness they were amazed to hear Obama
speaking a zuru word.
The rules and regulation of the
specific environment should be observed, Any speech should
follow under the ethics of a given society or community where the speech is
about to be revealed. Not only that but also it is very important to make sure
that protocol is observed when beginning your speech. Also make sure diplomacy
has observed in welcoming the guest and had taken the sit in place where they
supposed to sit. Hence this well organized style may encourage much attention
to speaker when presenting a speech or any talk in front of mass. In briery
without regulation it may be not easy to control the behavior of audience also
any action that observed during presentation or a speech delivering to them.
INCONCLUSION,
It is my hope that if the discussed
above factors will be considered by the public speakers, will give them a boost
to start their journey toward effective public speaking. Although Technology
can also help public speakers to reach audiences that were not possible to
reach in the past. Good example is the last lecture of Randy Pausch. Millions
of people heard about his “Last Lecture” online. In this captivating speech,
Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University professor who retired at age
forty-six after developing inoperable tumors, delivered his last lecture to the
students, faculty, and staff. This inspiring speech was turned into a DVD and a
best-selling book that was eventually published in more than thirty-five
languages. In today’s world, we are constantly bombarded with messages both
good and bad. No matter where you live, where you work or go to school, or what
kinds of media you use, you are probably exposed to hundreds, if not thousands,
of advertising messages every day. Researcher Norman W. Edmund estimates that
by 2020 the amount of knowledge in the world wills double every seventy-three
days. Because we live in a world where we are overwhelmed with content,
communicating information in a way that is accessible to others is more
important today than ever. Like the
bee gathering honey from different flaws also as a wise speaker we should
accept the essence of different materials about public speaking, protocol, and
diplomatic protocol but see only best advice from all.
