This document discusses the importance of communication and provides tips to improve communication skills. It notes that communication is key in business, communities, and personal lives. Some tips include knowing your purpose, identifying your main point, focusing your message on your audience, being concise, using you-focused language, managing pacing and pauses, and using quotes and statistics. It also discusses formal talks, including informative, entertaining, and persuasive styles. Finally, it recommends joining Toastmasters to practice speeches, receive peer evaluations, and learn from others through a typical meeting structure of table topics, prepared speeches, and evaluations.

1. The Power of
Communications
Dave Pelland

2. Today’s Topics
• We communicate all the time
• Tips for improvement
• Toastmasters

3. Premise:
Communications Are Critical

4. Communications
• Business
• Community
• Personal lives

5. We communicate
all the time

6. We share and
sell our ideas

7. The myth of
public speaking

8. Communications Tips

9. Know Your Purpose

10. Identify Your
Main Point

11. Focus Your Message
on the Audience

12. Be Concise

13. You-Focused
Language

14. Pacing and Pauses

15. Quotes and Stats

16. Notes and
Memorization

17. Formal Talks

18. Formal Talks
• Informative
• Entertaining
• Persuasive

19. Informative
• What happened
• What it means

20. Persuasive
• Understand your goals
• Develop supporting points
• Anticipate objections

21. Toastmasters

22. Toastmasters
• Practice speeches
• Evaluated by peers
• Learn from each other

23. A Typical Meeting
• Table Topics (off the cuff)
• Prepared speeches
• Evaluations

24. Questions?

25. The Last Tip
When you’re done, stop talking