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Welcome to the learning center
for receiver oriented oral communication.

Although SpeechGems.com in instructive throughout, Coach's Corner is the area where we cover all aspects of preparing and presenting a great talk. For over 25 years, we have been coaching oral and written communications. During that time, we have honed our receiver- oriented approach and developed a number of techniques to enhance it.

Whether you need a brush up for informal presentations at your regular Monday morning meetings, need specialized instruction on presenting to the media or to a symposium, or, need to motivate the entire organization through a speech, you will find the material to help you sharpen your skills and your focus.

You can take the entire course, step by step, or, thanks to the magic of the World Wide Web, you can hyperlink to any topic which interests you, at any time.

What's Inside?

To accommodate various levels of need, SpeechGems,com has organized the Coach's Corner on our subscription site into:

• Tips
• Basic Techniques, and
• The Complete Oral Communications Manual.

What's Right Here? To Use Right Now?

For consistency, we've given you one example each of:

• a tip
  

  the degree of detail to include for the type of audience

• a basic technique
  

  Magic movement

• a manual excerpt

  Openings

  You are welcome to use any of these items for your own presentations.

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  SAMPLE TIP:

  SPARE THE DETAILS
  
  The rule of thumb for including details in an oral presentation is: as few as possible to make the point. The rest can be provided in handouts if they are critical to the listeners; or, avoided all together if the listeners do not need to immediately use them.

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  SAMPLE BASIC TECHNIQUE:

  MAGIC MOVEMENT
  
  Movement is an integral and vital part of all communication. During any normal oral exchange, we gesture, walk about, or turn in our chairs, to emphasize or decry a particular point. Let us make a formal presentation, however, and we become Jekyll and Hyde! The floor beneath us seems to either turn to glue and hold us rooted, or to become electrified so we prance about like a Mexican jumping bean.
  
  To help you return to normal, program movement into your presentation to match what you are saying. If, for example, you are referring to a dimension such as height or width, physically show us. Measure it from floor or table, spread your arms, reach for the ceiling, or, use your arms, alternately, to show from here (Chicago) to there (Toronto).
  
  If you tell us you see, or saw, something and are going to describe it, walk across the stage and pretend to examine it. Visualize it and then point to or `touch' each segment as you refer to it.
  Try it. OUR SUBSCRIPTION SITE SHOWS YOU HOW TO PROGRAM MOVEMENT THROUGHOUT ENTIRE PRESENTATIONS.
  
  

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  SAMPLE FROM MANUAL

  A. OPENINGS: Putting your best foot forward:
  
  The first minute in a presentation is the most important. Your audience judges you and decides its reaction immediately based on how you look, and how you sound, in that opening space of time.
  
  YOUR TASK IN YOUR INTRODUCTION IS THREE-FOLD:
  
  
  1. to establish your purpose
  2. to establish your mood or tone
  3. to establish a bond of familiarity between you and your audience
  
  . . . A tall order; perhaps, but it can effectively be handled with a little planning.
  
  
  The manual section of Coach's Corner on our subscription site provides you with WORD-BY-WORD EXAMPLES for a variety of different presentions.
  It also provides you with our copyrighted PRESENTATION PLAN for developing a talk full of impact. .

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