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Normal 0 false false false EN-IN X-NONE X-NONE What is the right kind of preparation? I have often seenstudents, reading an article in the newspaper, whether convinced or notconvinced with the author, prepare their lecture and deliver it in the class.Does preparation mean picking up any topic and start speaking in front of anaudience?Or it is to lift a written speech from various sources,altering it and practicing on it?Well, all these are wrong ways of preparing, in fact,tougher ways of getting ready for a speech.Preparation is the key.If we fail to prepare............we prepare to fail. How do we prepare our presentation: 1)SPEECH IS BUILTIt reminds me of my college days, when I would see mostof the students preparing for their examinations, by reading from various bookson every single topic. Reading, writing and listening the whole year for justthree hours of examination.I also remember reading an article on Sachin Tendulkar,which mentioned a hypothetical figure that Sachin might have faced more than60L balls since childhood. Today, his one successful square cut is the resultof those 60L balls he faced during net practice and tournaments.Similarly, a speech or your presentation cannot be cookedup in five minutes. It is built over a period of time and it grows with time. “Rome was not built in a day.” Similarly, your publicspeaking skills or your presentation skills cannot develop in a single day.  2)DON'T IMMITATE OTHERSLike this article that I am writing, this is my article,my thoughts and my ideas, similarly when you are preparing your speech orpresentation, the thoughts and words must be yours and not someone else's. Youmust gather background information and an overview of your article. You mayread, you may search on Google, you may phone a friend, you can use others'ideas but just ideas, the words should be yours. Never imitate others. Itshould come from within. You cannot fake it. If you try to imitate others, youpublic speaking speech or your presentation may not be as natural as it couldhave been. 3)NEVER HESITATE IN DOING SOME LEG WORKMany a times, I have experienced, when my students, justto save time, delegate someone else to search for an article. Participants joinour public speaking and presentation skills course and choose the centreclosest to their house. They want to save time wasted in commuting. They savetime, efforts, energy but they waste their stick-to-it-iveness. Most profoundspeeches come from students who are not hesitant to travel from distant placesor who take the pains in searching for the ideas for their speech. I rememberone of our public speaking and personality development course student in 2004,she hailed from a small city Mandi, Govindgarh in Punjab about 300km away fromDelhi. For every session, she took a bus the previous evening, and went to herguardian's home as she was not allowed to venture out after 7pm from hercollege hostel. From Chandigarh, she took a bus at 2am, reach Delhi, again, andchange a couple of buses to reach our institute, in time for the 8am class. Shebagged many awards and certificates, during the course. Till my lastinformation, she was working in an MNC drawing a package of more than 15L.Determination and perseverance are omnipotent. 4)SLEEP WITH THE TOPIC; AWAKE WITH THE TOPICIt means thinking, brooding, recalling, polishing yourideas of the public speaking topic or the presentation. Talk with your friends,your spouse and your family members. Brainstorm your ideas with them. There aremany web based tools around these days that can help you in coming up with thecontent. It must develop and it must take time. This would add to yourpresentation skills. 5)WRITE 100 DISCARD 95Now, you have a lot of material with you, lots of ideas.You have to decide, which is the best of all? Retain the best ideas and discardthe rest. Don't keep those which are good, but difficult to speak on. Keepthose points that convince you and are easy for you to talk upon.  6)SMALLER IS BETTER, NEVER CONFUSE WITH LOADS OF STUFFWhat is the use of speaking non-stop without having anyin-depth meaning? Select only four-five points out of 20 but the best four-fivepoints.“Be sincere; be brief; be seated”.  --Franklin D.Roosevelt, on speechmakingYou should be remembered for small talk instead ofconfusing your audience with 10-15 points 7) Using Props and Visual AidsIf I ask you to visualize Christianity and a Cross, whatis easier to visualize? Yes! The answer is CROSS.Why don't we use the same horse sense while preparingspeeches? Use pictures, movies, objects, music etc in public speaking orpresentations to make your point easy to understand. Audience forget yourspeech soon but the props would not let them forget it. This is called DOI,Demonstration Of Ideas.Use these props only to further help your message; itshould not become the message. Speaking with a prop is not only effective butalso easy. Many times, I see my students in Presentation Skills Workshop, whengiven an assignment using DOI, use the prop extensively but do not let it gointo the depth of the message. 8)  ORGANIZE YOUR SPEECHYou have tens of ideas with you. And you have discardedthe unwanted. But how to organize the remaining ideas for the best impact onaudience in your public speaking project? This topic can't be explained in oneparagraph. Please read my article on HOW TO ORGANIZE YOUR SPEECH that will beposted soon.In a nutshell, I would say, the middle body of the speechmust have a pattern like chronological, casual, problem-solution,advantage-disadvantage etc. Point A must take you to point B, point B must takeyour talk to point C, so on and so forth. This transition must be smooth. 9)PRACTICE YOUR SPEECHNow that you have prepared your speech, practice as muchas you can. I remember watching an interview, 25yrs ago, by Tabbasum with theNightingale of India, Lata Mangeshker where Lata said she practiced (riyaaz) singingeven at the peak of her career for four to five hours every day.Or let's take the example of Indian Cricket team.Recently, the world champion Team-India lost badly to Australia and everyoneblamed them for not practicing at the nets.Need I say more on the importance of practising yourspeech!  /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable{mso-style-name:"Table Normal";mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;mso-style-noshow:yes;mso-style-priority:99;mso-style-qformat:yes;mso-style-parent:"";mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;mso-para-margin-top:0cm;mso-para-margin-right:0cm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0cm;line-height:115%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}