Leaders And Public Speaking

Leaders And Public Speaking

The Gettysburg Address was delivered by Abraham Lincoln on November 19, 1863, and it is one of the most famous of all speeches. The Gettysburg Address consisted of a total of 285 words and lasted only two minutes, which only goes to prove that it is quality and not quantity that matters in public speaking.

Martin Luther King's famous "I Have a Dream" speech lasted between five and ten minutes, once again proving that it doesn't take a whole lot of words to say a lot.

If you want to become an effective and sought-after public speaker, you need to take the lessons taught by really great public speakers to heart and make use of the information. The idea of speaking publicly is to present your ideas or to provide information.

I had a speech teacher back when I was in high school who said, "You never use ten words when five will do and you never use a four-syllable word when a two-syllable one will do." That is good advice. It is better to be direct and make your speech clear and to the point than it is to beat around the bush trying to get an idea across or to try to impress your audience with your command of the language. If your audience doesn't understand what you are saying, it won't matter what you are saying. You might as well be speaking in a foreign language.

We can learn a great many things about becoming a successful public speaker by reading and listening to great speeches of the past. I believe that there are two keys to successful public speaking that we can learn from great leaders of the past; keep it short, and keep it simple.

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