Podcasts about public speaking competition

Clarence Ford spoke to Maritsa Smit, Afrikaans High School Teacher at Curro Durbanville High School on the Nou praat jy, public speaking competition at Curro schoolsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Public speaking is something we all have to do at some point in our lives, whether it's a wedding speech or a colleague's farewell, however, it often comes up as a commonly held phobia. At Surbiton High, each year, the Public Speaking Competition sees over 500 students across Years 7-9 compete to win the Public Speaking Cup. In the first round, students must write, research and perform their own work independently on a topic of their choosing. Once they are through to the second and third rounds, they must work collaboratively in their year groups until the final teams of three are selected that are comprised of one student per year group for each House team. In today's episode we learn a little bit about what goes into preparing for the Public Speaking Competition and we give you recordings of the Austen House Team's winning contribution.

Here are some key takeaways from our panel on “Mastering Communication | Learn from the Stars of Public Speaking.” This episode is also available as a blog post: https://womenleadtm.com/2020/12/22/learnings-from-three-public-speaking-competition-finalists/

In this episode I will discuss my great success in the public speaking competition of Cardiff Toastmasters, Job interview soon and marathons and firewalk for great causes, --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/joseph-bryant3/message

Senior Executives In A Public Speaking Competition Was So Revealing   Speech contests and debating contests are usually for younger people at school or university.  It is not often you see the most senior people from major corporations going head to head in a public setting.  I was at an event where there was a vote to take place for some prestigious seats on the board of a non-profit.  If the number of applicants equals the number of seats, then it is a perfunctory competition where the winner's names are just announced.  In the case of more hopefuls than places, then things hot up.    Each person had two minutes to make their pitch.  Now remember, these are very experienced and senior people, in some cases heading vast organisations.  I was fascinated to see how they would fare. With one exception, English was not their native language.  However, they have been in international business their whole lives and many have lived in numerous foreign countries running the local business for the multinational parent company.  Language skill wasn't even a factor.   As you might expect, some were better presenters than others.  However, overall they were pretty underwhelming, given the types of big jobs they were holding.  They knew they would have to speak and compete for places with each other and that they only had two minutes.  They had the opportunity to prepare, to rehearse what they would say.  This was not a spontaneous idea on the part of the organisers. The first thing I noticed was how poorly they had all prepared. Talking about your resume and how big your big corporate is, is fine but there was no thought given to what the audience wanted to hear.  Everything was presented from their own point of view.   A few minutes spent planning and preparing would have come up with a fine list of audience expectations of this board. They would have found which hot buttons they needed to push.  This is not hard stuff.  They will represent our interests on the Board and so what would our member interests be?  Having divined that, we should then craft our message to present around how our experience, organisational muscle and personal attributes will deliver for the members.  We only have two minutes so we have to prune hard to fix upon the most high impact points that will resonate with the audience.  We then need to rehearse to make sure we can get this inside the strict two minute limit.  We don't want to be rushing it or confusing our audience with too many varied points. If we do that they have no hope of keeping track of what we are on about.   Now when we deliver our talk we have to engage with our audience.  We will be going one after another, so we have to break through and override the message of whoever preceded us and implant our message, such that the successor speaker cannot root it out.  Sadly, none of this was happening and they were not engaging their audience at all.  What are they like when addressing the troops back at the office I was wondering? Going by this effort not much chop!   The common thing I noticed that was missing from all the speakers was eye contact. They were not using their two minutes to physically engage with enough people.  Using six seconds of one on one eye contact, we can directly engage with at least twenty people in the audience.  Toward the rear, because of the distance, the people sitting around the target person also believe the speaker is talking directly to them as well, so we can increase that twenty number quite substantially.    Delivering your resume in a monotone means you are missing the opportunity to hit key words for greater effect.  Now when I say hit, I mean that in the sense that you can choose whether to add voice strength or withdraw voice strength to gain variety in your delivery.  Our gestures are another way to bring power to what we are saying.  Some of the speakers chose to speak while holding their hands behind their backs, denying themselves the opportunity to use gestures. When we don't show our hands, we are triggering a deep mistrust in the audience. This is because since we lived in caves, we have learnt not to trust people whose hands we cannot see.   It was all pretty bad.  Corporate leaders need to be excellent communicators and that includes giving professional presentations.  This is not something we are born with.  We learn it and we further develop it, over the course of our careers.  There was a lot of personal, professional and company brand damage done the other day, at the face off for the Board seats.  When It is your turn to speak, be ready and blow your competitors out of the water.

The EMSB's annual board-wide Public Speaking Competition is not just a "speech contest" but a showcase for students to get out a message that is both personal and important to them. The quality of the speeches is astounding, well researched, focused and confidently presented - and these students are only in high school. Congratulations to all the students who pushed aside their fears to participate, you are all winners. And to the top speakers for this year's competition: Royal West Sec III Cameron O'Hare, Lauren Hill Sec IV Siena Blier and FACE Sec V Linnea Sander. Meet them now and hear their passion for what they have accomplished, accompanied by the very proud Coordinator Anne Beamish (EMSB Pedagogical Consultant Secondary English Language Arts)

Dan Shaikh, Co-Founder of Canada's largest public speaking contest, Speaker Slam, sheds light on what it takes to win Speaker Slam. 10 Speakers go head to head and heart to heart to inspire, entertain and ultimately take home the prize of one of Canada's top speakers. This episode is great for future competitors, those who want to grow their social media presence and who want to their video content marketing to go viral! Find out more about Dan and Rina at http://www.speakerslam.ca/

Talisia Rowell, the visionary behind Mirror This, is a dynamic, award-winning, and up-and-coming EmpowHERment Speaker. Talisia’s professional speaking career spans over seven plus years. In 2018, Talisia spoke to over 300 girls at Southwest DeKalb High School’s First Annual Girls Empowerment Day. Talisia’s electrifying poem Black Girl Magic Still in Progress, produced a standing ovation from the girls. Also, in 2017, she placed 3 rd at Toastmaster International District 14 World Champion of Public Speaking Competition. Talisia has published her first self-awareness book titled, What Good Can Come From You? This book reveals to its readers, You Are Your Greatest Subject.

Our special pre-show will showcase Zach Tate. Zach Tate is the critically-acclaimed, #1 best-selling author of the classic novels, No Way Out, Lost and Turned Out, and Johnny Hustle. Tate is known as the "Ghostwriter's Ghostwriter" for his ability to create authors who are living legends from his words and epic storytelling. With Gambling with Hearts, Tate is back with a healthy dose of authentic storytelling complete with everything his loyal readers have come to expect from him. Born in Bronx, New York, and raised by the hard knocks of life, he's reemerging with a mission to bring back quality stories full of substance. A writer of screen and stage plays, poetry, songs, novels, and television shows, Zach wears the crown of “King of Fiction” proudly. Tate is building a legacy, enjoying the fellowship of his readers, and working on the next big thing. Randall Phillip-Green Barnes is an eighteen-year old author, internet radio personality, public speaker and peer mentor who currently resides in Macon, GA. His first novel The Diary of Aaliyah Anderson, a Young Adult Fiction Book, has garnered over 53,000 reads on Wattpad.com and achieved universal acclaim in other arenas. Barnes writes for the popular news website Urban Intellectuals, the relationship blog, Courting Her, and the literary blog Straight, No Chaser. Barnes is also the author of the eShort Riverview High: Circumstances. Barnes is a recent graduate of William S. Hutchings College & Career Academy. Barnes won first place in the FBLA Region 5 Public Speaking Competition in January of 2013. He's currently a freshman at Fort Valley State University in Fort Valley, GA, and is majoring in Middle Grade Education.

Randall Barnes is a seventeen year old author, internet radio personality, public speaker and mentor who currently resides in Macon, GA. His first novel, The Diary of Aaliyah Anderson, has garnered over 30,000 reads on Wattpad.com. He writes for the popular news website, Urban Intellectuals, the relationship blog, Courting Her and the literary blog, Straight, No Chaser. Randall is currently a senior at William S. Hutchings College & Career Academy. Along with being a talented writer, Randall also has the gift of public speaking. He won first place in the FBLA Region 5 Public Speaking Competition in January of 2013. Randall also was the first student in history to represent Hutchings in the Rotary Club Speech Contest. The best has yet to come for this young man.