DeFinis Communications

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

So before you stand up to speak, make sure you choose the correct delivery method that will give you the best results for you and your audience. . The delivery must be closely choreographed with the message to lift the speech from the page and into the hearts and minds of the listeners. . Extemporaneous. While many people think extemporaneous and impromptu are the same since they are both speeches that are not read or memorized, there is one key difference.

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Kate's Voice

AUGUST 3, 2017

We’ve discussed the necessity to practice to be a better communicator, but many of you have told me that you love speaking extemporaneously; to your mind that means you would be better off not practicing. Content Delivery Public Speaking acting technique improv practicingPracticing may take the joy out of something that you really like to do, to shape ideas as they come […].

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Speaking about Presenting

MAY 25, 2009

Barack Obama, whose superior speaking skills undoubtedly contributed to his ascent to the presidency, is known to lapse into unwords whenever he departs from his trusty teleprompter and speaks extemporaneously. Tags: Delivery ahs chunking disfluencies ers filled pauses fillers nonwords ums unwords A number of high-profile presentation bloggers and authors have commented recently on Barack Obama’s speaking style - when he doesn’t have his teleprompter in front of him.

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The Eloquent Woman

MARCH 10, 2011

Here's what I think practice can do to help you develop a poised, confident delivery: Rehearsing means you'll know what you do--and what you will be doing. speaking with confidence practice extemporaneous speakingA while back, I asked readers of The Eloquent Woman on Facebook "If you could improve one thing about your public speaking, what would you focus on?" Tina Laue said, " Inner poise and self worth.

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Presentation Zen

MAY 7, 2013

Better to lower the level of verbal excellence and raise the level of extemporaneous energy.". Delivery Long before "death-by-powerpoint" or vertigo-by-prezi , there were bad presentations. Really bad presentations. So don''t blame the software. The genesis of painfully dull or muddled presentations predates the computer.

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The Eloquent Woman

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Unfortunately for her friends who don’t quite share that ability, she also has deadpan delivery of the most ridiculous statements down pat. humor extemporaneous speaking handling questions(Editor's note: Museum educator Emily Finke writes the blog This View of Life. Her latest post, "Elements of an Effective Public Education Toolkit," is really about handling those questions that come at you from left field or out of the blue--and for which you just don't have an answer.

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The Eloquent Woman

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, collects her speeches and writings; if you buy the audiobook , you can hear recordings of her delivery of many of the speeches. Houck, is the first collection of speeches by the noted civil rights activist, including transcriptions of her extemporaneous remarks. Sam Leith's review notes patterns in the written speeches, adding that Obama's delivery made them unique and persuasive.

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The Eloquent Woman

MAY 8, 2015

Listen to the emphasis in these particular lines--the delivery makes them clear. This last section let us see her speak extemporaneously as well. Mosby's delivery here was well-paced and clear as a bell, on a day when that specificity mattered greatly and legally. Own it: Mosby's entire delivery could be summed up in four words: "The buck stops here." Her delivery isn't cocky, but certainly confident and forceful.

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The Eloquent Woman

AUGUST 29, 2014

Her forthright delivery helped make it acceptable to discuss these poor working conditions. This talk is extemporaneous, a real tour de force. Women''s work is never done, they say--making it a natural topic when women give speeches. I''ve chosen 11 famous speeches by women about labor and work in advance of Labor Day, all from The Eloquent Woman Index of Famous Speeches by Women. The work in question runs the gamut.

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The Eloquent Woman

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Work the lectern: This is a long speech, and it needed to be a prepared speech--it''s tough to maintain almost 40 minutes extemporaneously and cover all the ground Lagarde needed to cover. She makes the most of having to stay at the lectern, however, with extemporaneous adds, lots of gestures, vocal variety and colorful language. The text, prepared for delivery , differs in part from the address she delivered.

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The Eloquent Woman

JANUARY 17, 2012

That it's a speech: Whether the remarks are extemporaneous or planned, we want speeches for this series, rather than interviews, presentations or soliloquies. Lessons for other speakers: Every Famous Speech Friday example includes three lessons that any speaker can take from the famous speech, so we're looking for speeches that include words, delivery techniques and more that's useful to speakers today.

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The Eloquent Woman

JUNE 19, 2013

Whether you do it solo or with a team, practice will help you: Look like you didn''t need practice: Call it the Great Irony of Public Speaking: The speaker who practices winds up looking relaxed, unruffled, at ease and extemporaneous. You can only get that extemporaneous, casual look through practice--and it''s the biggest practice advantage.

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The Eloquent Woman

JANUARY 22, 2016

We've featured many famous speeches by women that were covered on television and radio, but this collection of seven speeches were planned precisely for TV or radio delivery. They run the gamut from politics to humor and popular issues like cooking and weight loss.

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The Eloquent Woman

MARCH 25, 2016

Margaret Edson's 2008 Smith College commencement speech is not only remarkable because it's extemporaneous, but because of her sly humor. Margaret Thatcher's "Iron Lady" speech , a serious speech that earned her the nickname, nonetheless includes humor as a tool to barb, parry, and thrust her way through a pointed delivery. Here, deadpan delivery and basing her talk in research helps balance the humor.

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The Eloquent Woman

JULY 10, 2015

Maybe you didn't think that was possible, but it's part of a great tradition in outstanding legislative speaking: At the moment when all seems lost, we Americans love an elected official who can rise and extemporaneously sum up both the feeling and the finer points of the legislative process involved in a particular fight on the floor. That emphasis on emotion in the media took some attention away from the excellent language and delivery.

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The Eloquent Woman

JANUARY 20, 2012

Using notes without reading: Many actors use notes for public speaking and abhor the extemporaneous--they're used to lines they learn in advance in their work. Quiet delivery with great vocal variety: "It helps us become what we might have been " she says, with a suggestive, knowing, sidelong look at the audience. "We're living, on average today, 34 years longer than our great-grandparents did. Think about that," Fonda told the TEDxWomen event in 2011.

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The Eloquent Woman

MARCH 7, 2014

is moving--but also was rewritten by others after its delivery, including its most famous line. 1963: Julia Child''s "The French Chef" cooking demos took television by storm, giving a woman an unusual platform for extemporaneous speaking-while-demonstrating. When you have a treasure trove as large as The Eloquent Woman Index of Famous Women''s Speeches , you can use it as a lens on the topic of women and public speaking.

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The Eloquent Woman

JULY 24, 2013

It''s perfectly fine to work from notes or a text when you speak , but when you choose to work from the written word rather than extemporaneously, you need a checklist just for that mode of speaking--because even a text is no guarantee that things won''t go wrong.

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The Eloquent Woman

JUNE 20, 2011

Put another way: You can have the best content ever, but if your delivery or appearance fail to put it over, content won't matter to the audience. If you're an over-prepared speaker, consider this: The time you spend going over and over your content could be spent learning new speaker skills, like handling tough questions extemporaneously, gesturing, speaking without slides or text, and more. (Here's a revised and updated post that first appeared on the blog in 2008.)

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The Eloquent Woman

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Listen closely to her charming delivery. An eloquent extemporaneous speech. Black women speakers from all over the world are often featured in The Eloquent Woman Index of famous speeches by women. Whether African, American or from elsewhere in the world, they make up close to 20 percent of the speeches we''ve collected and featured so far. No shortages here: Check out the 29 famous speeches from the Index given by black women speakers, arranged in chronological order.

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The Eloquent Woman

MARCH 27, 2015

is moving--but also was rewritten by others after its delivery, including its most famous line. 1963: Julia Child''s "The French Chef" cooking demos took television by storm, giving a woman an unusual platform for extemporaneous speaking-while-demonstrating. When you have a treasure trove as large as The Eloquent Woman Index of Famous Women''s Speeches , you can use it as a lens on the topic of women and public speaking.

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The Eloquent Woman

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Listen closely to her charming delivery. An eloquent extemporaneous speech. Black women speakers from all over the world are often featured in The Eloquent Woman Index of famous speeches by women. Whether African, American or from elsewhere in the world, they make up close to 20 percent of the speeches we've collected and featured so far. Check out the 38 famous speeches from the Index given by black women speakers, arranged in chronological order from 1851 to the present.

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The Eloquent Woman

MARCH 4, 2016

is moving--but also was rewritten by others after its delivery, including its most famous line. 1963: Julia Child's "The French Chef" cooking demos took television by storm, giving a woman an unusual platform for extemporaneous speaking-while-demonstrating. When you have a treasure trove as large as The Eloquent Woman Index of Famous Women's Speeches , you can use it as a lens on the topic of women and public speaking.

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The Eloquent Woman

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Listen closely to her charming delivery. An eloquent extemporaneous speech. Black women speakers from all over the world are often featured in The Eloquent Woman Index of Famous Speeches by Women. Whether African, American or from elsewhere in the world, they make up close to 20 percent of the speeches we've collected and featured so far. And every year, this expanding collection of speeches by black women is the most-read post on the blog!

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The Eloquent Woman

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Listen closely to her charming delivery. An eloquent extemporaneous speech. Black women speakers from all over the world are often featured in The Eloquent Woman Index of Famous Speeches by Women. Whether African, American or from elsewhere in the world, they make up close to 20 percent of the speeches we've collected and featured so far. And every year, this expanding collection of speeches by black women is the most-read post on the blog!

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The Eloquent Woman

JULY 12, 2009

Here are some tips to get you moving toward better enunciation, clarity and pacing: Practice with a text: While my goal as a coach is to get you off the page and into the extemporaneous as a speaker, this is one area where practicing from a written text can help you improve. with a repeat, slower than the first delivery.) On the Eloquent Woman Facebook page , I've started a discussion to ask readers to share their top priorities for improving their public speaking.

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The Eloquent Woman

APRIL 30, 2008

Put another way: You can have the best content ever, but if your delivery or appearance fail to put it over, content won't matter to the audience. If you're an overprepared speaker, consider this: The time you spend going over and over your content could be spent learning new speaker skills, like handling tough questions extemporaneously, gesturing, speaking without slides or text, and more. A woman in one of my recent communications workshops asked, "What do you recommend for me?

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http://delicious.com/akarrer/prospeaker

MAY 1, 2009

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http://delicious.com/akarrer/prospeaker

MARCH 6, 2009

One school of thought is that you are on a stage and will impart to the audience the same mechanics and delivery if it was one or ten thousand. Another school of thought would compel you to read the audience in real time as you go through the presentation and interact or extemporaneously strike off in a direction of their choosing by reading the crowd. I did a lot of presentations last year and I've been working on ways to update my information and delivery.

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http://delicious.com/akarrer/prospeaker

MAY 1, 2009

Now is the time to ask them for a robust critique of the substance of your presentation and your delivery style. People will think that you are indeed a silver-tongued orator who can put together a well thought out and extemporaneous presentation at the last minute.

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