1. Effective Speaking Tips
Ahmedabad Chapter of WIRC of ICSI
Sumali Parikh

2. Tips
 Get the attention
 Be Energetic
•Tie your points
•Tell your story
•Structure your speech
•Visual Aid & Testimony
•Humor
•Leave with a question mark
•Look at the audience
•“Wow” factor

3. Get the attention
 Use the technique to grab the
attention of the audience.
 Start with
 Question.
 Real story
 Newspaper headings
 Current Event

4. Be Energetic
 Speak with a variety in your voice
 Gestures
 Don’t become a statue
 Facial Expressions
 Smile / Exclamation / Excitement
 Walk
 Go near to the audience
 Break
 Pause for a second

5. Structure your speech
 Summarize your point in starting
 Always have examples, definitions,
testimony, statistics to support the
speech
 Graphs, Bars, Pictures

6. Visual Aids & Testimony
 Presentations
 Overhead Projectors
 Dry Erase Boards
 Flip Charts
 Evidence
 Percentage / Statistics

7. Tie your points
 Heading
 Introduction
 Body
 Conclusion
 Footnote

8. Tell your story
 “W” Questions
 What
 Who
 Where
 When
 Why
 Then Answer the questions

9. Look at the audience
 Good Eye Contact
 Move around the audience
 Use note cards while using
complex statistics

10. “WOW” factor
 There must be something in our
speech which will make the
audience think “WOW”.
 Or there should be a visual /
dramatic impact on the audience
as they will understand
immediately

11. Humor
 Speakers are definitely not a
comedian but their must be a
lightening in the speech so that the
audience will accept them.
 Humor here is basically tragedy
separated by time and space.

12. Leave with a question mark
 The points discussed here definitely
help in getting started in becoming a
speaker
 "Know your stuff. Know whom you are
stuffing. Know when they are stuffed.“
 What I want you to do as a result of this
presentation is ……….