Extemporaneous speaking is simply sharing well-prepared thoughts, from brief notes, with an audience.
Instead of reading your speech, or giving it from memory, you speak from an outline or a few notes.
You simply glance at your notes to remind you of the point you want to cover, and say what immediately comes to mind.
Fewer Notes Allow You To Actually Converse When using this method of presentation, your ideas are carefully analyzed and thoroughly prepared in advance, but not recorded in detail for your speech.
Your notes are reduced to an outline, or at least carefully condensed to the point where they contain only enough information to remind you of the ideas you want to cover.
When you speak extemporaneously, you actually talk with your audience.
Your speech is natural, conversational.
Itreminds your listeners of a conversation they might have with a friend in which the friend does most of the talking.
The benefit? It relaxes your audience and they focus on what you're saying, and not on you.
That's what you want, isn't it? It's difficult to achieve the same effect if you give a memorized speech, or if you read it to the audience.
When doing either, your conversational tone is lost, and they rightly feel that you're merely giving a speech and not really conversing with them.
That distances them from you, and they feel at liberty to pay less attention to what you're saying and more attention to you as a speaker.
Words Fresh From Your Mind To Theirs Since you're not relying on your notes for the actual words you use to express your ideas, your words flow spontaneously from your mind to theirs, with a freshness all the preparation in the world cannot duplicate.
This helps to hold their attention, even if they formerly had only a passing interest in your subject.
Your sincere interest, enthusiasm, and conversational delivery will actually stimulate their interest and make it a pleasure to listen to you.
Suddenly, You're Free! This type of delivery also lends itself to the spontaneous use of gestures and to good visual contact with your audience, since your hands, eyes, and mind are not glued to your notes.
Furthermore, you're free to elaborate on, or to illustrate points as the mood strikes you.
Of course, this freedom is not free.
An extemporaneous presentation done well seems impromptu, off the cuff, effortless.
Nothing could be farther from the truth.
Disciplined thought in organizing and preparing your material accounts for this apparent ease.
Still, the excellent results justify the effort.
Why not try it?
Instead of reading your speech, or giving it from memory, you speak from an outline or a few notes.
You simply glance at your notes to remind you of the point you want to cover, and say what immediately comes to mind.
Fewer Notes Allow You To Actually Converse When using this method of presentation, your ideas are carefully analyzed and thoroughly prepared in advance, but not recorded in detail for your speech.
Your notes are reduced to an outline, or at least carefully condensed to the point where they contain only enough information to remind you of the ideas you want to cover.
When you speak extemporaneously, you actually talk with your audience.
Your speech is natural, conversational.
Itreminds your listeners of a conversation they might have with a friend in which the friend does most of the talking.
The benefit? It relaxes your audience and they focus on what you're saying, and not on you.
That's what you want, isn't it? It's difficult to achieve the same effect if you give a memorized speech, or if you read it to the audience.
When doing either, your conversational tone is lost, and they rightly feel that you're merely giving a speech and not really conversing with them.
That distances them from you, and they feel at liberty to pay less attention to what you're saying and more attention to you as a speaker.
Words Fresh From Your Mind To Theirs Since you're not relying on your notes for the actual words you use to express your ideas, your words flow spontaneously from your mind to theirs, with a freshness all the preparation in the world cannot duplicate.
This helps to hold their attention, even if they formerly had only a passing interest in your subject.
Your sincere interest, enthusiasm, and conversational delivery will actually stimulate their interest and make it a pleasure to listen to you.
Suddenly, You're Free! This type of delivery also lends itself to the spontaneous use of gestures and to good visual contact with your audience, since your hands, eyes, and mind are not glued to your notes.
Furthermore, you're free to elaborate on, or to illustrate points as the mood strikes you.
Of course, this freedom is not free.
An extemporaneous presentation done well seems impromptu, off the cuff, effortless.
Nothing could be farther from the truth.
Disciplined thought in organizing and preparing your material accounts for this apparent ease.
Still, the excellent results justify the effort.
Why not try it?