The 110
techniques of communication and public speaking - David
Phillips
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David JP Phillips has spent 7 years studying 5000 speakers,
amateurs and professionals in order to understand what makes a good speaker
'good' and a great speaker 'great'. As a result he found 110 core skills with
loads of sub skills. These are 110 core skills:
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The 110 techniques of communication and skills |
David
picks out his favorite skills and shows a demonstration. He takes chair as an
example. A chair is representing your idea and you want people to buy it. There
are two options.
- You are either
standing on one side of the chair and you’re
a fairly mediocre communicator; you hope for the best but sometimes it work
and sometimes it doesn't.
- The other option is,
you are on the other side of the chair and you know exactly what you are
doing. You know taking a step forward increases focus, shifting yourself
lower increases trust, tilting your head slightly increases empathy,
lowering your voice, you get anticipation and if you pause you get
undivided attention.
He
further explains if everyone can become good at these skills. The answer is yes,
of course. It's all about skills and not talent. Skills are learned, you are
not born with it.
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He picks some important skills and here are some tips about them:
Body Language:
- Avoid closing your
body language, that's a sign of feeling threatened. Communicate with an
open body language.
- People observe your
body language more than listening to you. It's important that your words
and body language match, they should go together. If you are speaking
about something positive, your facial expressions are positive and you are
speaking positively but your body language doesn't match people will be
distracted. If your body language and gestures are not saying the same what
you are saying verbally, there is a disturbance in the communication.
- Functional gesturing
is about using your gestures for what they are supposed to be used for.
Voice:
- Keep a calm pace.
When a person has a low pace our brain reacts to it as it's more important
than what a person says with high pace.
- Pause is really
important. When you don't take pause, you rather use "uh's and
yeah's" which signals that you don't know what you are talking about
and that's where it goes wrong.
- People will prefer
silence over the "uh's, yeah's and OH’s"
These
were the most important skills that a public speaker should use. It's going to
work wonders.
Some other skills:
- Looking
up illustrates that a person is thinking, this helps in gaining audience's
attention.
- Audible
Inhale makes the audience believe that you are going to say something
that's exciting.
- Duchene
smile is a natural face expression, which means smiling with your mouth
and eyes and it plays a significant role in communication and public
speaking. The Duchene
smile is an expression that signals true enjoyment and is
influential.
- Self-laughter increases anticipation of what you are
going to say.
These were the four small skills; it can be a small skill but
still have a great impact. So if you haven't used these before, start using
these and it will make a great difference to the speech.
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