“Maybe you should start with a clever quote? In this case, you are insured against failure, ”says Vladimir Vladimirovich Shakhidzhanyan. Rather, this is one of his first tips. Not without meaning, right? When we need to address the public or make a statement, it is important to start right. This immediately appeals to the speaker, concentrates their attention and causes sympathy.
Of course, the final impression depends only on the content and presentation of your subsequent speech. However, the right start will make you feel confident, point out the right direction and establish contact with the audience. And this is already half the battle, because when you speak fluently, you have a wonderful opportunity to convey your thoughts as efficiently as possible.
A bit about the author
The advice of Vladimir Shahidzhanyan will be useful not only to people who are actively speaking to the public, but also to everyone who wants to speak well in any life situation - with relatives, acquaintances, at school and in the work team. There is always room for positive change.
The author of the book “Learning to Speak in Public” - Vladimir Shahidzhanyan, at 63 years old continues to improve. Without embarrassment, he claims that this process can go on forever. A journalist and psychologist, Shahidzhanyan knows from his own experience how to learn to speak in an accessible and exciting way. Learn from scratch. Due to the difficult circumstances of his childhood (he grew up in the besieged besieged Leningrad), he began to speak late and stuttered until he was 12 years old.
Shahidzhanyan got rid of stuttering only by the age of 19, and shyness remained. But he had a craving for the public, had thoughts that required expression, and he began to hone his speech, studying books on rhetoric, attending courses on stage speech. In his life, he was a journalist, and a director, and a radio host, and currently teaches at the Moscow State University a special seminar on the psychology of journalistic creativity.
The main thing is practice
The main requirement of Vladimir Shahidzhanyan is that you, as a student, fully trust him and practice all the sketches offered to him. Only in this case you will have a significant result.
The Shahidjanian method, provided that all exercises are performed regularly, guarantees improvements, regardless of what level you are at now. You can overcome shyness and timidity in front of crowds, or you can learn to excite whole masses.
The book contains exercises for developing and honing oratory skills. In addition, Vladimir Shahidzhanyan strongly recommends simultaneously with the recorder, because nothing shows us our mistakes, as his own view from the outside.
You will get rid of parasite words
Vladimir Shahidzhanyan will teach you to speak correctly, and his method will instill pure speech. The transparency of speech largely depends on the means we use. A pile of unnecessary words and phrases, like a thick bush in the forest, prevents the listener from wading through your phrases, making it difficult to perceive. When a sentence has a lot of unnecessary words and little information, the audience automatically relaxes and stops focusing on the speech. This is fraught with a loss by the listeners of the thread of your story, their loss of time and pace with which you are narrating.
The most important enemies of good perception are, of course, parasitic words (as well as interjection parasites). They reflect your nervousness, lack of control and unpreparedness, irritating the public. In the book “Learning to Speak Publicly,” Vladimir Shahidzhanyan also says that the extra components of speech include not only parasitic words, but also words that do not carry any stylistic or semantic load. Believe me, the public will be very grateful to you if you do not waste your time and attention on boring transitions, unnecessary apologies and inappropriate comments.
You will speak essentially
Have you ever taken your audience far away from the main subject with your reasoning? Have you delved into such subtle and detailed details of the topic under discussion that you could write a separate book about them? Does this help to achieve the desired result during your performance? Of course not. Such demagogy testifies to your frivolity, unpreparedness and even impolite in relation to the audience. Shakhidzhanyan Vladimir Vladimirovich will tell you how to speak in essence and how to express your thoughts most vividly, clearly and at the same time.
Your speech will be emotional and convincing.
Why do people react to the same words differently? Because these words were spoken with a different emotional message. In order to arouse interest and participation, during your performance, you must light up the emotions in people - be it joy or sorrow. And in order to achieve enthusiasm from the audience, you need to bring these emotions into your speech. The more sincere they are, the better, of course, but do you always manage to reflect even your most sincere and natural feelings? Sometimes they only confuse us with thoughts. Whether they are strong or weak - we cannot be sure how much our expression matches the mood if we do not have control skills.
Vladimir Shahidzhanyan will also tell you how to properly present the material to achieve your goal. Emotional and interesting speech, well laid out, concise, and filled with attention-grabbing details, however, may not produce the result you expect. Because many people who with pleasure can listen to your well-delivered performance (in fact, it doesn’t matter, prepared or improvised), tend to nonetheless treat everything with prejudice and remain with their opinions.
In order to instill a sense of unity in them and convince them of something or, even more difficult, to dissuade or to convince you, you will need specific knowledge of human psychology and the ability to use them, as well as mobility to communicate with the audience in a language that is accessible to her. Vladimir Shahidzhanyan in an easy and accessible form tells how to achieve this.
Your speech will be intelligible
It is important that the speech is easily perceived by the audience. To do this, you must speak the same language as the people you are speaking to. This means that your speech should not be satiated with inappropriate terminology. Or, conversely, with an audience that expects some kind of professional plan information from you, you must adhere to specific concepts that describe the essence of the topic in the most concise and complete way.