4 Steps to Delivering a Powerful Speech Introduction
August 5th, 2008 by James Malinchak
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When you are involved in public speaking, and you are about to deliver that introduction speech, you may be nervous at first. This is a natural reaction. However, the mark of a trained public speaker is when you can overcome that initial nervousness, and produce a whopping of a speech that your audience will remember for a lifetime.
Your goal as a public speaker is to provide a great speech introduction. Without one, you are lost before you even begin. As such, there are 4 steps or examples of speech introduction that may just help you get over the hump, produce the kind of speech your audience will learn from, and be glad they came.
The first step is to act like a coach. Presenting yourself as a coach to your audience means you won’t present your material like normal speakers do. You need to gear your introduction to present yourself as someone who has something vital to say that will benefit the person you’re speaking to.
Stating that you have something vital to say that you will need for them to take home is the second step. Provide samples of your work so your audience can pick up on or more as they leave the room. Making a point about something you have written or done, and emphasizing to your audience that if they follow what you’ve done will make them successful is a great example of an introduction speech.
The third method or step is to remember people are decisive by nature. They will decide quickly, in some cases, whether they want to buy something or listen to something. It is your choice to make sure what you deliver is what they came to hear. That it is so vitally important that nothing else matters but what you have to say.
Talk to experts in the field if you wonder how you should start a speech. To overcome nervousness, some professional speakers use a signature opening and get the audience involved. You need to develop your own signature opening as a speaker in training. Doing so will make your speech introduction on target and powerful, every time you give it.
As stated earlier, public speaking is a skill you can develop. It takes time. You can’t become a successful public speaker overnight. But you can develop the ability to become one by simply learning the trade and practice your delivery often. This is how the experts did it and if you follow in their footsteps, you’ll find yourself doing it as well. Before you know it, you’ll be right up among them as an expert public speaker too.
