Questions are the Answer – Did you communicate? How can I improve?
The Speaking Well advocates taking particular Paths to achieve speaking success. One these Paths is focused on enabling the audience to clearly identify the purpose of your speech, talk or presentation.
In fact there is a really important question to ask with respect to the purpose of your speaking which is:
Did the talk, presentation or speech communicate?
To put this same question in another way;
Did the audience understand your message; did they get your point?
This is what you must be clear about. If not then you need to take action to address the point.
So, if you need to ask another question, then ask;
How could I improve?
What action should you take? Well, we can’t always see the wood for the trees with regard to our own speaking and therefore the thing thing to do is ask for feedback from others.
What did they like and what do they think could be improved next time to make your talk, presentation or speech even better and your message clearer.
A brilliant place to get this personal feedback is at your local Toastmasters Club. Toastmaster International Club members give great feedback to each other in the form of Speech Evaluations. There are very few other places that I know of where you will get this type of very helpful direct input to help you improve.
Go back over this Blog and the Paths again and again to help you continually improve your speaking. The Paths are commented on and expanded upon in this Blog and you can also download the free material on the many aspects of speaking and presentation.
Remember that The Speaking Well is here to help you improve your spoken communication in all its forms. To help you improve your speaking whether this is for speeches, talks or presentations please do use the information that you find here and also find and join your local Toastmasters International Club.
If you do both these things they will have a huge impact on your ability to speak and present to an audiance, whether this is on a one to one basis, more than one or to a large audiance.
