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2Speech Lesson
Speech Lesson
Speak For Success Course
The Speak For Success course is a
communication course designed to help
you shape up your oral communication
skills. These six speech lessons for
improving your communication skills will
make you sound more polished and
professional – and ultimately, because of
the power of good communication,
become more successful.
Speech Lesson 1 – Speech Problem of Enunciation
The first speech lesson of the Speak For Success course deals with the
speech problem of sloppy enunciation. Use this information and related
speech exercises to speak more clearly and make a better impression on your
listeners.
Speech Exercise – Tongue Twisters
A speech exercise designed to help you improve the speech skill of clarity.
Speech Lesson 2 – Speech Problem of Fillers
The second speech lesson of the Speak For Success course deals with the
speech problem of using fillers. The information and related speech exercises
in this lesson will help you speak more clearly and make a better impression
on your listeners.
Speech Exercise – More Speech Topics For The Tell-Me Game
A list of speech topics for the Tell-Me Game speech exercise.
Speech Lesson 3 – Speech Problem of Expression
The third speech lesson of the Speak For Success course deals with the
speech problem of expression. The information and related speech exercises
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in this lesson will help you speak with more vocal variety and keep your
listeners interested.
Speech Exercise – Drama Queens and Kings
A speech exercise designed to help you improve your voice expression.
Speech Lesson 4 – Speech Problem of Pace
The fourth speech lesson of the Speak For Success course deals with the
speech problem of pace. The information and related speech exercises in this
lesson will help you slow down your speech and make it easier for your
listeners to understand you.
Speech Exercise – Speech Topics For Five Step How-Tos
A speech exercise designed to help you improve your pace.
Speech Lesson 5 – Speech Problem of Buzzwords and Slang
The fifth speech lesson of the Speak For Success course deals with the
speech problems of using buzzwords, slang and acronyms in your speech.
The information and related speech exercises in this lesson will help you
eliminate this empty language and make it easier for your listeners to
understand you.
Speech Exercise – Business Buzzwords To Avoid
A speech exercise designed to help you eliminate buzzwords from your
speech.
Speech Lesson 6 – Speech Problem of Listening
The sixth speech lesson of the Speak For Success course deals with the
speech problem of listening. The information and related speech exercises in
this lesson will help you become an active listener who participates fully in
communication.
Speech Lesson 7 – Speech Skills Wrap Up
The final speech lesson of the Speak For Success course is the wrap up. The
information and related speech exercises in this lesson will help you evaluate
your progress in improving your oral communication skills.
Speech Exercise – Speech Course Self Evaluation
A speech exercise designed to help you evaluate your progress in
improving your speech skills.
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4Speech Skills and Terminology
Speech Skills and Terminology
Speech Term Definitions & Speech Lessons
For your convenience, this list of speech skills and terminology includes reference to the Speak
For Success Speech Lesson each skill or term is a part of, as well as definitions.
Clarity – speaking clearly so as to be understood. Clarity is composed of several different related
speech skills: (covered in Speak for Success Speech Lesson 1, Speech Lesson 2 and Speech Lesson
5).
Projection – speaking loudly enough so that every member of the audience can hear what is
said.
Enunciation – fully pronouncing each syllable of each word with the proper emphasis (covered
in Speak for Success Speech Lesson 1).
Pronunciation – correctly pronouncing each word.
Expression – speaking with vocal variety and vitality so that the audience remains interested
(covered in Speak for Success Speech Lesson 3).
Pace – speaking at a rate that is comfortable for the audience to hear and comprehend (covered
in Speak for Success Speech Lesson 4).
Fillers – Using meaningless words or sounds that distract the audience (covered in Speak for
Success Speech Lesson 2).
Slang – Informal language that is specific to a particular group (covered in Speak for Success
Speech Lesson 5).
Buzzwords – Words or phrases that sound important but have become meaningless through
endless repetition (covered in Speak for Success Speech Lesson 5).
Acronyms – Sets of initials used as shorthand to refer to particular phrases (such as C.E.O. for
Chief Executive Officer) (covered in Speak for Success Speech Lesson 5).
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5Speech Skills and Terminology
Active Listening – Participating in the act of communication by paying attention and letting the
speaker know that you’re paying attention (covered in Speak for Success Speech Lesson 6).
Stance – Presenting and maintaining an appropriate posture to facilitate communication
(covered in Speak for Success Speech Lesson 6).
Eye-contact – Just what you think it is. When speaking to an audience of more than one, it’s
important to make eye contact with as many individual members of the audience as possible
((covered in Speak for Success Speech Lesson 6).
Speak for Success communication course
This speech lesson, like all the speech lessons in the course, follows a format that explains the
speech problem and presents several speech exercises so you can work on the problem.
Each speech lesson closes with a homework assignment designed to provide further practice
eliminating or correcting the speech problem that you’re working with that particular week.
To get the most out of this course, you need to follow the program, working on only one lesson
each week and completing all the exercises and homework assignments.
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6Speak For Success Speech Lesson 1
Speak For Success Speech Lesson 1
Stop Dropping Your G's; Enunciation Matters
Speech Skill: Clarity
The Speech Problem
For listeners, one of the most irritating speech habits is a speaker that doesn’t enunciate clearly.
When you don’t bother to pronounce each syllable of each word properly and words get slurred
together, you sound uneducated. Worse, your listener has a hard time hearing you – especially if
there’s other noise around you or when you’re speaking on the phone.
Dropping “g”s is one of the most common examples of poor enunciation. Say this list of words
out loud:
 Going
 Walking
 Jogging
 Thinking
 Striking
 Selling
Did you say “go-ing” or did you say “go-in”? If you said “go-in” (or “walk-in”, “jog-gin”, etc.),
you’re a G-dropper.
Be warned; this was not a fair test. Pronouncing words in isolation is very different than what we
normally do when we speak.
Say these sentences out loud:
 I’m going to have to rethink that bid.
 Waiting to hear back from the bank is very nerve-wracking and stressful.
 Before starting my business, I looked at a lot of different business opportunities.
 There’s more to learning than just reading, writing and arithmetic.
Did you drop any Gs? Did you enunciate each syllable of each word?
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7Speak For Success Speech Lesson 1
Speech Exercise: The Mirror Face Test
A mirror is a great aid when you’re working on your enunciation. I call this the face test. When
you’re enunciating properly, your mouth, tongue, lips and jaw move.
Stand in front of a mirror and watch yourself while you say, “I’m going to have to rethink that
bid”. See how your lips purse and retract when you say “go-ing”? See how your lips jut out to
pronouce the “b” in “bid”? This one sentence is a real face workout.
Say the rest of the sentences out loud, watching yourself speak in the mirror. Now say them all
again, slowing down your rate of speech and exaggerating the facial movements.
This week, you should have a mirror session of five minutes every day. You’ll immediately notice
that this practice will carry over into your “normal” speaking life, causing you to be more
conscious of the way you speak and speak more clearly.
Additional Speech Exercise: Tongue Twisters
Say each of the following sentences out loud three times each, as quickly as you can while fully
enunciating each word.
1) Keeping customer’s content creates kingly profits.
2) Success seeds success.
3) Bigger business isn’t better business but better business brings bigger rewards.
4) Wanting won’t win; winning ways are active ways.
5) Seventeen sales slips slithered slowly southwards.
6) Don’t go deep into debt.
7) Ensuring excellence isn’t easy.
8) Time takes a terrible toll on intentions.
Repeat this exercise as many times as you like.
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8Speak For Success Speech Lesson 1
Speech Exercise: Enlist a Speech Monitor
Because it’s so hard to perform naturally when we’re focusing on speaking well, the best way to
determine whether or not we’re enunciating properly when we speak and stop slurring and
mumbling is to enlist a speech monitor.
It’s a lot easier for someone else to pick up on our sloppy speech habits than to hear ourselves.
For convenience, choose someone that lives with you (spouse, child, or roommate), explain that
you’re working on your enunciation, and ask him or her to tell you whenever you drop a G or
don’t speak clearly. Keep track of how often your speech monitor tells you you’ve committed
this speech offense.
What you should see, as you continue to practice speaking clearly, is the number of times your
speech monitor hears you speaking sloppily decrease.
Ready for the pressure situation? Ask someone who works with you regularly to be a speech
monitor.
The Benefits of Enunciation
As your enunciation improves, your listeners will:
 Form a better impression of you as you speak, thinking of you as an educated,
knowledgeable person, more worthy of trust.
 Be better able to focus on the message you’re communicating, rather than being
distracted by the way you’re expressing yourself.
Speech Lesson 1 Homework Assignment
To get the most out of this course, as I said, it’s important that you do the exercises. Your speech
won’t improve unless you work at it regularly.
This week, you have two tasks;
1. Set aside five minutes a day where you can work with a mirror in a quiet place and
practice the enunciation exercises above;
2. Enlist at least one speech monitor to help you catch your speech errors.
Next week, you’ll tackle the speech problem of fillers.
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9Speak For Success Speech Lesson 2
Speak For Success Speech Lesson 2
Axe Those Fillers
Speech Skill: Clarity
The Speech Problem
If sloppy enunciation is one of the most irritating speech habits, using excessive fillers while you
speak is the most irritating speech habit. Fillers range from repetitious sounds, such as “uh”,
“um” and the dreaded Canadian “eh”, through favourite catch words and phrases, such as “you
know”, “anyway”, “all right” and “like”. I won’t even attempt to give a full list of them here,
because new fillers such as “whatever” are continuously creeping into people’s speech.
The problem with using fillers such as these when you speak is that they distract your listener –
often to the point that he doesn’t hear anything you say. Your message is entirely lost, obscured
by the thicket of fillers surrounding it. Think about the last time you listened to someone with
the filler habit. Chances are good you spent the time he spoke either being annoyed or counting
the number of times he said the filler phrase.
And with some people, that number can be amazingly high. Some people tack fillers onto the
end of every sentence, and sandwich them between every phrase. It becomes, you know, really
difficult for them to say anything without adding these empty additional phrases, you know?
And speech fillers are insidious. If you’re a person that uses fillers, you may not even be aware of
the speech problem yourself. Fillers tend to become so embedded into our speech patterns that
even once you’re aware that you’re using them, you’ll have a very hard time trying not to say
them.
Guard Against Stock Responses
Even if you don’t usually stud your speech with fillers, you may find yourself falling back on stock
responses that irritate your listeners. Stock responses are phrases that we develop over time to
particular communication situations, such as statements that call for acknowledgement and
nothing else. For instance, I once knew a person that responded, “Okey-dokey” whenever he
was asked to do something. Now picture yourself as this person’s boss – and repeatedly having
to ask him to do things. (Shudder.)
Try to vary your response to these standard situations, rather than falling back on whatever your
stock response is every time. Avoid slang and “cute” phrases as you would avoid the plague. If
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you’re having trouble varying your responses, pick several neutral, formal phrases, such as
“Right away”, “I will” and/or “Yes, certainly”, and stick to those.
Speech Exercise: The Tell-Me Game
This exercise is designed to test your speech to see if you use fillers and to identify your
favourite filler words and phrases. You will need a partner, such as the person who agreed to be
your speech monitor in Speak For Success Speech Lesson 1, to listen to you.
Tell your partner the purpose of the game. His task is to identify and list all fillers as you speak.
Set a timer for one minute. Your task is to speak for one minute on this topic:
 Your business’s products and/or services.
Do NOT allow yourself any time to think about the topic. Just speak. Speaking impromptu will
more closely reproduce your “usual” speech habits.
How did you do? Are you a filler user? If you are, there’s work to do to fix your sloppy speech
habit.
Continue to use the Tell-Me Game to try and cut down on the number of fillers you use in
spontaneous speech. Increase the time of the exercise to two minutes.
Speech Exercise: Additional Speech Topics For The Tell-Me Game
You will need a partner for this exercise. As the listener, your partner’s role is to listen for the particular
speech problem being worked on and record all instances of the speech problem.
As the speaker, your role is to speak impromptu on one of the following speech topics for two minutes.
Do NOT spend time thinking about the topic before you speak.
1. Your favourite hobby and why it’s your favourite.
2. What you would do if you won five million dollars on the lottery?
3. If you had unlimited resources, what would you do to improve your business?
4. What do you like best about what you do? Why?
5. Which of the five senses is most important? Why?
6. What skill or talent would you most like to have? Why?
7. Why is the current federal government doing such a bad job?
8. What should your town do to create a better climate for business?
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9. What are the best places to eat in your town or city? Why?
10. What are the best things to do to relax? Why?
11. What’s the worst fault a person can have? Why?
12. If you could be young again, would you? Why?
13. What are the four things you least like to do? Why?
14. Who do you most admire? Why?
15. If you could visit any place in the world, where would you go? Why?
16. What are your three best personality traits? Why?
17. What do you like most about living where you live? Why?
18. What was the worst job you ever had? Why?
19. What was the best workshop or conference you’ve ever attended? Why?
Increase the difficulty of this speech exercise by speaking impromptu on one of the topics above for three
minutes - or even five minutes, if you dare.
Speech Exercise: Have Your Fillers Monitored
As the only way you’re going to eliminate fillers from your speech is through constant diligence,
the help of your speech monitor (or monitors) will be invaluable. Once again, explain the speech
problem you are working on, and have him tell you every time you commit this speech offence
in his presence. If you’re serious about breaking this sloppy speech habit, having one monitor at
home and one in your work environment is ideal.
The Benefits of Eliminating Fillers
As was the case with the first sloppy speech habit you tackled, as your speech fillers decrease,
your listeners will:
 Form a better impression of you as you speak, thinking of you as an educated,
knowledgeable person, more worthy of trust;
 Be better able to focus on the message you’re communicating, rather than being
distracted by the way you’re expressing yourself.
Speech Lesson 2 Homework Assignment
Your first task this week is simple: use the Tell-Me Game at least once to identify your favourite
filler words and phrases.
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12Speak For Success Speech Lesson 2
The second task is much harder; work to eliminate the extraneous fillers in your speech.
Continue working with a partner and playing the Tell-Me-Game throughout the week. Get your
speech monitor or monitors involved to help catch the fillers you use.
As you become more conscious of the way you speak and practice speaking without fillers, you’ll
find your filler use decrease.
In the next speech lesson, you’ll work on the skill of expression.
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13Speak For Success Speech Lesson 3
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Enthusiasm and Monotones Don’t Mix
Speech Skill: Expression
The Speech Problem
Speaking in a monotonous voice is a real communication killer. When the variety of your voice’s
pitch doesn’t vary, it’s impossible for your listener to maintain any interest in what you’re
saying. He tunes out – quickly. Once again, your message falls by the wayside.
But even if he did hear it, he probably wouldn’t believe it. People who speak in a monotone or
with inappropriate expression in their voices are perceived as untrustworthy, boring, or even
shifty. As a business, sales or professional person, you can see why you’d want to fix this sloppy
speech problem right away!
Other Speech Problems of Expression
Now, you may be saying to yourself (with a sigh of relief), “I certainly don’t speak in a
monotone!” That’s excellent news, but unfortunately, the obvious monotone, where there is no
variety of pitch in the voice, is only one sloppy speech habit related to expression. A far more
common problem is a lack of appropriate vocal variety, or, as I call it, tired voice.
If you have tired voice, your speech just doesn’t convey the appropriate emotional shadings and
vitality that make people’s voices interesting and pleasant to hear. Think of it this way; your
voice is as much a part of your signature style as the color of your eyes or the way you walk.
People can identify you by these signature traits. And in some cases, people have developed
“signature” voices that are grating, braying, booming or otherwise just downright unpleasant for
other people to listen to – because their voices are not suitably expressive.
The good news is that having a monotonous or tired voice is not a life sentence. Everyone can
change their signature voice (to some degree, barring physical complications) – just as we can
change the way we walk or even the colour of our eyes.
Speech Exercise: Emotion Sentences
The purpose of this exercise is to practice getting more vocal variety into your speech, so you are
going to be saying these sentences in different ways.
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14Speak For Success Speech Lesson 3
First, say the sentence out loud as you would if you were ecstatically happy.
Then say the same sentence out loud as you would if you were extremely sad.
1. I just got a call saying that I won a vacation in Las Vegas.
2. I’m going to have to change that light bulb.
3. Our town now has a new recycling program.
4. My next door neighbour is moving out next week.
5. I’ll be able to retire in only two more years.
Speech Exercise: Belief Sentences
The purpose of this exercise is to practice conveying meaning through expression in your
speech; so once again, you are going to be saying these sentences in different ways.
First, say the sentence out loud as you would if you truly believed the statement.
Then say the same sentence out loud as you would if you didn’t believe what you were saying
and wanted to convey your disbelief to your listener.
1. You’ll never regret buying one of these.
2. This extended warranty is a great deal.
3. This is definitely a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
4. What I’m doing now is the best thing I’ve ever done.
5. I am the best at what I do.
Speech Exercise: Drama Queens and Kings
Picture yourself as a star of a long-running soap opera or TV show. What do stars do? They emote. This
role-playing speech exercise will help you develop a more expressive voice by exaggerating your
normal pitch and rhythm.
Put as much expression into your role as you can, following the stage directions. It’s best if you work
with a partner, as the script is written for two people – although trying to play both roles can be fun,
too!
Speech Exercise Script
Daphne: (horribly upset) It’s all over, Rodney.
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Rodney: (anxiously) What do you mean?
Daphne: I mean I just can’t go on like this. The sneaking around, the hiding, trying to make sure that
no one sees us...
Rodney: (compassionately) It hasn’t been easy for me, either, you know.
Daphne: I know... I know...
Rodney: I mean, it’s just not what we’re used to, is it? I know that you understand, but other people...
What if they found out? I can’t stop thinking about it.
Daphne: (brutally) We’d never be able to hold up our heads again. We’d be outcasts.
Rodney: (firmly) If we just stick together, we can get through it. Where’s your famous will power?
Daphne: But it’s driving me mad. How much worse than this could it be? I just can’t stop thinking
about it.
Rodney: So that’s it, then? You’re just going to throw in the towel?
Daphne: I have to, Rodney. Don’t you understand? I thought you of all people...
Rodney: (bitterly) Oh, I understand, all right. Go ahead then. You always do just what you want to do
anyhow.
Daphne: (outraged) That’s not true! How dare you accuse me of being selfish after all the sacrifices
I’ve made!
Rodney: See? All you can talk about is your sacrifices. As if I haven’t made any. And now you’re being
selfish again. How do you think I’m going to be able to carry on by myself?
Daphne: (snidely) Well you were the one that was talking about will power.
Rodney: Yeah, right. As if I’m going to be able to stick to this protein only diet once you start filling the
cupboards with bread and doughnuts again!
End Speech Exercise Script
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16Speak For Success Speech Lesson 3
Like any star, you may rerun these lines any number of times. For more variety, change the stage
directions. In the opening lines, have Daphne speak calmly and Rodney curiously, for instance.
Reading the lines of published plays and scripts out loud is another great way to practice increasing the
expression in your voice – and of course, to continue polishing your clarity speech skills.
The Benefits of Improving Your Speech Expression
As your voice expression increases, your listeners will:
 Be more interested in what you’re saying and more attentive;
 Be more likely to be receptive to you and the message you’re communicating.
Speech Lesson 3 Homework Assignment
Set aside a minimum of 15 minutes a day this week to work on your voice expression.
Start by working through the exercises on and linked to this page. You will want to go through
each of these speech exercises at least three times.
In addition, you’ll want to start working with other passages. As I suggest at the end of the
Drama Queens and Kings exercise, published plays are an excellent source of material for
improving your expression speech skill. Reading poetry out loud is another excellent practice.
Perhaps the best source of speech exercise material is children’s books. When we read one of
these aloud to a child, we tend to try out a variety of different voices and exaggerate the
expression in our voices in response to the child’s response as we read.
If you have no children’s books (or children) on hand, remember that any fiction will work. Use
your fifteen minutes a day to read out loud. It’s best if you read to an audience, as having an
audience will help you focus on using expression to interest (and perhaps enthral) your listeners.
Over time as you consistently practice this speech skill, you’ll find your “signature” voice change
- becoming both more expressive and more pleasing.
A speech lesson especially for those who speak too quickly or too slowly is up next
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17Speak For Success Speech Lesson 4
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Motor mouths Don’t Make Sales
Speech Skill: Pace
The Speech Problem
Speaking too quickly is one of the most common speech problems – perhaps because almost all
of us tend to speed up our speech when we’re stressed or excited. And when are we not
stressed when we’re working? Making a cold call, meeting a new contact, working on a project
with a deadline – all of these situations are stressful and cause all kinds of physiological
responses, including speeding up our speech.
Some people, however, are genuine “motor mouths” – people who always speak rapidly.
Speaking too slowly is much less common, but believe it or not, there are people who tend to
speak naturally with a rate of speed that leaves gaps between words and drawls out syllables to
extremes.
The trick to speaking at an appropriate pace is remembering that you need to speak at a rate
that allows your listener to understand what you’re saying. Listening is not a one-step process;
we have to physically hear what is said and then translate language into meaning. If we speak
too quickly, this vital second step of the process is lost.
Like expression, the natural rate at which you speak is part of your speech signature. The
problem with speaking at a pace that’s either too fast or too slow is that it interferes with
communication. When you speak too quickly, you literally “blow away” your listener. He can’t
mentally keep up with you and will quickly stop trying. While a small part of your message may
get through, most won’t. When you speak too slowly, your listener has too much time for
processing, and the mind either locks on how irritatingly slowly you’re speaking or wanders off
to more interesting things.
If you hear phrases such as “Could you repeat that?” often, or often encounter glazed looks,
you’re probably a person who usually speaks too quickly or too slowly.
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18Speak For Success Speech Lesson 4
Slowing Your Speech Down
Focusing on our enunciation when we speak is one good way to slow down our speech. When
we focus on enunciating clearly, (as you did in Speech Lesson 1), we force ourselves to stop
slurring and eliding syllables when we speak.
Another way to slow down our speech is to concentrate on phrasing. Oral speech, just like
written speech, is composed of phrases and sentences. In fact, the punctuation of written
speech is simply a set of sign posts to tell us how the written information should be phrased. For
instance, when I wrote:
“If you hear phrases such as “Could you repeat that?” often, or often encounter glazed looks,
you’re probably a person who usually speaks too quickly or too slowly,” the punctuation dictates
that when you read or say this sentence, you are going to pause briefly after the question mark,
pause again after the word ‘often’ because of the comma, and again after ‘looks’. The sentence
should be read the same way, whether you read it silently or read it out loud.
But people who speak too quickly tend to ignore phrasing entirely. They don’t pause for
commas, hyphens, question marks or even periods, jamming all the phrases together. Therefore,
concentrating on the phrasing can really help slow down speedy speakers.
Speech Exercise: Practicing Phrasing
Go back to the start of this speech lesson and read it out loud, using the punctuation to guide
your phrasing. Think of a period or semi-colon as a pause twice as long as a comma.
Speech Exercise: Five Step How-Tos
Because the pace of speech and comprehension are so closely linked, this exercise focuses on speaking at
the optimum pace for making your message understood.
You will need a partner to work through this speech exercise. His or her task is to comprehend what you’re
saying and give you feedback about your speech pace.
As the speaker, your task is to tell him or her how to do something in five steps. You may jot down the five
steps you’re going to use as speaking points on a piece of paper before you begin, if you wish. Choose one
of the following speech topics and think of five steps describing how to do it. Then tell your partner how to
go about it.
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19Speak For Success Speech Lesson 4
Speech Topics:
1. How to perfectly boil an egg
2. How to plant a tree
3. How to send an email
4. How to handle a customer complaint
5. How to send a fax
6. How to evaluate an employee
7. How to replace a printer cartridge
8. How to impress a client
9. How to give a good speech
10. How to make the perfect cup of coffee or tea
When you’ve finished speaking, ask your partner to repeat the five steps you spoke of. Did he or she get
all of them?
If not, why? Did you speak too quickly or too slowly or was there some other speech problem that
interfered with communication?
Rerun the exercise with a different topic as many times as you like
The Benefits of Improving Your Speech Pace
When you speak at an appropriate pace, your listeners will:
 Be more interested in what you’re saying and more attentive;
 Be more likely to comprehend the message you’re communicating.
Speech Lesson 4 Homework Assignment
Set aside a minimum of 15 minutes a day this week to work on your voice pace.
Once you’ve worked through the exercises on and linked to this page, I want you to continue
your oral reading program throughout the week. Fiction or non-fiction will work, as long as the
piece is properly punctuated. As you read out loud, concentrate on your enunciation and
following the phrasing as directed by the punctuation. Those of you who enjoy a challenge will
benefit from dipping into some literary classics, such as novels by Austen, Hardy, Dickens and
Thackeray. The sentence structure will provide a great phrasing workout.
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20Speak For Success Speech Lesson 4
The next step is much harder, but I want you to start working on it right away, too. Start
visualizing the punctuation before you speak. Whether you’re on the phone or talking to
someone in person, before you say what you’re going to say, “see” the sentences, complete with
their periods and commas, and then say it. If you can master this, the pace at which you speak
will slow down considerably – even if you’re stressed.
And once again, tell your speech monitor what speech skill you’re working on this week, and get
him or her to warn you when you’re speaking too quickly or too slowly.
In the next speech lesson, you’ll be taking a look at buzzwords and slang and how they can
destroy communication.
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21Speak For Success Speech Lesson 5
Speak For Success Speech Lesson 5
Buzzwords and Slang Bury Your Message
Speech Skill: Clarity
The Speech Problem
We live in a world littered with acronyms, buzzwords and slang. Right now, for instance, I’m
tired of people leveraging everything all over the place. A friend recently told me that she’d
leveraged her portfolio. I thought she was talking about stocks, but she meant that she had a job
interview. This was just a personal, minor misunderstanding. But acronyms, buzzwords and slang
can cause misunderstandings that cost time and money when we’re trying to do business.
As business people and professionals, we need to be sure that we’re speaking the right language
to the right people at the right time. Both slang and buzzwords are types of informal, trendy
language; both obscure meaning.
Slang is “informal language consisting of words and expressions that are not considered
appropriate for formal occasions; often vituperative or vulgar” or “the characteristic language of
a particular group” (HyperDictionary). So on the one hand, your listener may not understand
what’s said because he isn’t a member of the selective group that knows that lingo; on the
other, he may understand it very well but be offended by it.
Another problem with using slang to attempt to communicate is that many of us tend to get
trapped in slang time warps. Unless you live in a house with teenagers or are currently attending
a post-secondary educational institute, the slang you’re trying to use is probably hopelessly out
of date. (Remember the phrase, “far out”? Or “lame”? If you do, don’t admit it to anyone!)
Buzzwords are “stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition”
(HyperDictionary), or, if you prefer, “important-sounding words or phrases used primarily to
impress laypersons” (BuzzWhack.com). Currently, for example, every business under the sun is
including the word “solutions” in their marketing copy and conversations, to the point that the
word is just a meaningless filler.
Speech Exercise: Business Buzzwords To Avoid
The easy part of the exercise: read this list of business buzzwords.
The hard part of the exercise: strip these meaningless buzzwords from your speech (and from your
thinking).
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22Speak For Success Speech Lesson 5
Actionable
Actualize
Best practice
Conceptualize
Cash-neutral
Cost-centered
Customer-centered
Customer-directed
Empowered
Empowerment
Game plan
Heads-up
Intellectual capital
Knowledge management
Leverage
Low-hanging fruit
Market segment
Mission critical
Mission statement
Operationalize
Outside the box
Paradigm shift
Positioning
Push the envelope
Ramp up
Resource constrained
Risk management
Smart size
Solution
Strategic fit
Strategic alliance
Synergize
Touch base
Value-added
Vision Statement
Win-Win
Shorthand Can Short-change Your Listeners
Acronyms are abbreviations formed from the first letters of each word of a phrase that are
sometimes used as words in themselves. They’re popular because basically we’re a lazy bunch
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23Speak For Success Speech Lesson 5
and using a set of initials rather than writing or saying several words saves effort. Some common
ones are:
 ASP - Application Service Provider
 B2B - Business to Business
 BAU - Business As Usual
 BAFO - Best And Final Offer
 RFP - Request for Proposal
 ROI - Return on Investment
What works as shorthand in the office doesn’t necessarily translate when you’re speaking with
customers or clients. Perfectly appropriate acronyms you use in-house may just be
gobbledygook to clients.
I’m not saying that acronyms should never be used; just that you should use them selectively. To
make it easier on yourself, set up and follow a rule never to use acronyms when communicating
with customers and/or clients, no matter what form the communication takes. Clarity is worth
the price of convenience.
Speech Exercise: Adding Acronyms
Return to the list of acronyms above and add at least five different acronyms – preferably ones
that you are in the habit of using. As the purpose of this exercise is to start focusing on the
acronyms in your speech, you may find it easier to add to the list throughout the week as
acronyms crop up when you’re communicating.
The Benefits of Cutting Slang, Buzzwords and Acronyms
When you cut these from your speech, your listeners will:
 Be less likely to feel alienated or offended;
 Be more likely to comprehend the message you’re communicating.
Speech Lesson 5 Homework Assignment
First, complete the exercises on and linked to this page. Just by doing this, you’ll become more
aware of the kind of empty, informal language that you want to eliminate from your speech.
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24Speak For Success Speech Lesson 5
To help you cut slang, buzzwords and acronyms from your speech, I want you to keep a Speech
Diary. Each day, as you communicate with others, be aware of what you’re saying and write
down any instances of slang, buzzwords, or acronyms that you use.
If you do this conscientiously, by the end of the week, two things will happen; you’ll have a list of
the empty language that you personally use, and the number of times you use particular
instances of the slang, buzzwords and acronyms that are weakening your communication will
decrease.
Enlist the aid of your speech monitor again this week, asking him or her to tell you whenever you
use slang, buzzwords or acronyms instead of real, meaningful words.
In the next speech skills lesson, you’ll learn why what you don’t say is just as important as what
you do say, as you work on Active Listening.
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25Speak For Success Speech Lesson 6
Speak For Success Speech Lesson 6
Active Listening Is The Most Important Thing You Say
Speech Skill: Listening
The Speech Problem
Assuming that you truly want to communicate with others, listening is the most important
speech skill of all. Unfortunately, it’s also the speech skill that is practiced the least.
Remember the joke about the psychiatrist? There he is, in his office, with a patient on the couch.
While the patient pours his heart out, the psychiatrist is thinking about his upcoming dinner.
That’s the way it is with most of us, much of the time. We’re thinking about other things instead
of listening to whoever is speaking to us. There’s a grain of truth to the adage, “in one ear and
out the other”, except that often the information doesn’t even enter the one ear in the first
place.
It will sound strange to refer to this as a sloppy speech habit, but it is. We’re wired to listen; we
just don’t bother doing it all the time.
Because we can get away with it, most of the time, the speaker won’t know we’re not listening.
As long as we continue to face him, keep a suitable expression on our face, and don’t do
something blatant such as belt out a show tune, how will he know that we’re actually
somewhere else entirely? He won’t.
But you do. And you’re the one that has to make a commitment to truly listening. In other
words, I want you to become an active listener. To listen actively, you need to change from
being a passive target to being a contributor to the communication. Make this one change, and
you’ll improve your communication skills a thousand fold.
Three Techniques For Active Listening
1) Setting The Stage For Listening – Stop whatever else you are doing. Turn to face the speaker
and make eye contact. If you’re standing, your arms should be held loosely at your sides. If
you’re sitting, place your hands in your lap or loosely along each arm of the chair. Whether
standing or sitting, do not cross your arms, which sends out a negative message. If you’re sitting,
your legs should also be uncrossed. Lean slightly towards the speaker. You want your body
language to send the message that you are receptive to the speaker’s message.
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26Speak For Success Speech Lesson 6
2) Appropriate Advancement – As the speaker speaks, make appropriate comments that
advance the conversation. Just saying “um” or “ah” here and there won’t do it. You need to
show the speaker that you’re actively listening to what he’s saying by making statements or
asking questions that show that you’ve been paying attention. Like the next technique,
summarizing, this active listening technique works well in both face-to-face and communication
situations where the speaker can’t see you.
3) Summarizing - This is a particularly powerful technique for showing the speaker you’ve been
paying attention whether you’re in a face-to-face situation or listening over the phone. You can
use it during conversation by saying something such as, “You were saying that...” and simply
restating the speaker’s last point. Its most powerful use is at the end of the conversation, when
it’s “officially” your turn to respond. Start by saying, “You said that...” and then summarize the
speaker’s key points, closing by adding an action statement, something you will do as a result of
what the speaker has said.
For example, “You said that you don’t feel that I’ve been listening to you because I keep facing
my computer screen when you’re talking, and don’t seem to have anything to add to the
conversation. From now on, I’ll give you my full attention when you speak to me.”
Speech Exercise: Practice Active Listening
You will need a partner for this exercise.
Return to the list of topics used in Speech Lesson 2.
Speech Exercise: Additional Speech Topics For The Tell-Me Game
This time, you are going to be the listener instead of the speaker. Have your partner choose one
of the speech topics and speak impromptu for two minutes. Your task is to be an active listener,
and apply the three active listening techniques above. (Don’t forget to set the stage properly!)
Perform this exercise at least three times, using different speech topics and working up to a
speech time of three minutes.
The Benefits of Active Listening
When you listen actively, people communicating with you will:
 Feel more confident that they’ve actually communicated a message to you.
 Feel more positive about you and the message you’re communicating.
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27Speak For Success Speech Lesson 6
Speech Lesson 6 Homework Assignment
After you’ve practiced the exercise on and linked to this page, you need to continue practice
being an active listener.
Concentrate on this speech skill this week by trying to apply the three techniques of active
listening to every conversation you have.
Set up a session with your Speech Monitor or with the partner that you first did your Active
Listening practice with for the end of the week and go through the Active Listening exercise on
this page one more time. Ask him or her to evaluate how you are performing each of the three
active listening techniques explained in this lesson.
Next week, we’ll wrap up the course.
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Speak For Success Speech Lesson 7
Speech Course Wrap Up
You’ve now worked through six lessons designed to shape up your speech. If I’ve succeeded in
my goal for this course, you’re now able to speak more confidently and better able to
communicate with your listeners - and this improved ability to communicate is already
translating into more success for you in your business, job or profession.
However, you know how easy it is to fall back into sloppy speech habits. We have a lot of things
going on, and other things to pay attention to. If you need or want to go back and review a
particular speech problem, this list of skills covered by each speech lesson will help you find the
speech problem you want to go back and work on.
Speak For Success Lesson 1 - Stop Dropping Your Gs; Enunciation Matters (Speech Skill: Clarity)
Speak For Success Lesson 2 – Axe Those Fillers (Speech Skill: Clarity)
Speak For Success Lesson 3 – Enthusiasm and Monotones Don’t Mix (Speech Skill: Expression)
Speak For Success Lesson 4 – Motor mouths Don’t Make Sales (Speech Skill: Pace)
Speak For Success Lesson 5 – Buzzwords and Slang Bury Your Message (Speech Skill: Clarity)
Speak For Success Lesson 6 – Active Listening Is the Most Important Thing You Say (Speech Skill:
Listening)
Speech Exercise: Self-Evaluation
Think back over the course and use the self-evaluation chart in the linked exercise to evaluate
your progress. (I’ve put this on a separate page to make to easier to print out.)
Speech Lesson 7 Homework Assignment
Meet with your Speech Monitor or Monitors. Thank him or her for helping you work through the
various speech exercises. Have him or her read through your self-evaluation and agree or
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29Speak For Success Speech Lesson 7
disagree with how you’ve evaluated your progress. Then sit back and relax. You’ve completed
the Speak For Success Course!
It’s my earnest hope that you’ll continue to apply the techniques and materials presented in this
course. If you do, I know your speech skills will continue to improve – and you’ll reap even more
benefits from being able to communicate well with those around you.
(This exercise is part of the Speak for Success Course. While you
can use this exercise to evaluate your speech skills at any time,
it’s designed to be specific to this course)
Speak For Success Course Self-Evaluation
Name ___________________________
Date ___________________________
For each of the following speech skills listed in the table below, rate your proficiency, using the
following scale:
1 – Extremely poor
2 – Below satisfactory
3 --Satisfactory
4 – Good
5 – Excellent
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30Speak For Success Speech Lesson 7
Finish this sentence:
I feel that I have made the best progress on the speech skill of
_______________________________.
And this one:
The speech skill I still most need to work on is _______________________________.
Speech Skills to Evaluate
Enunciation 1 2 3 4 5
Lack of Fillers 1 2 3 4 5
Expression 1 2 3 4 5
Pace 1 2 3 4 5
Lack of Slang 1 2 3 4 5
Lack of
Buzzwords
1 2 3 4 5
Lack of
Acronyms
1 2 3 4 5
Active
Listening
1 2 3 4 5

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  • 1. Speak for Success Reference/Content owner: sbinfocanada, Susan Ward Disclaimer: I do not own the image/s used in this document. Speech LessonCollected by:Yenna Monica D. P
  • 2. Speak for Success Reference/Content owner: sbinfocanada, Susan Ward Disclaimer: I do not own the image/s used in this document. 2Speech Lesson Speech Lesson Speak For Success Course The Speak For Success course is a communication course designed to help you shape up your oral communication skills. These six speech lessons for improving your communication skills will make you sound more polished and professional – and ultimately, because of the power of good communication, become more successful. Speech Lesson 1 – Speech Problem of Enunciation The first speech lesson of the Speak For Success course deals with the speech problem of sloppy enunciation. Use this information and related speech exercises to speak more clearly and make a better impression on your listeners. Speech Exercise – Tongue Twisters A speech exercise designed to help you improve the speech skill of clarity. Speech Lesson 2 – Speech Problem of Fillers The second speech lesson of the Speak For Success course deals with the speech problem of using fillers. The information and related speech exercises in this lesson will help you speak more clearly and make a better impression on your listeners. Speech Exercise – More Speech Topics For The Tell-Me Game A list of speech topics for the Tell-Me Game speech exercise. Speech Lesson 3 – Speech Problem of Expression The third speech lesson of the Speak For Success course deals with the speech problem of expression. The information and related speech exercises
  • 3. Speak for Success Reference/Content owner: sbinfocanada, Susan Ward Disclaimer: I do not own the image/s used in this document. 3/Speak For Success Course in this lesson will help you speak with more vocal variety and keep your listeners interested. Speech Exercise – Drama Queens and Kings A speech exercise designed to help you improve your voice expression. Speech Lesson 4 – Speech Problem of Pace The fourth speech lesson of the Speak For Success course deals with the speech problem of pace. The information and related speech exercises in this lesson will help you slow down your speech and make it easier for your listeners to understand you. Speech Exercise – Speech Topics For Five Step How-Tos A speech exercise designed to help you improve your pace. Speech Lesson 5 – Speech Problem of Buzzwords and Slang The fifth speech lesson of the Speak For Success course deals with the speech problems of using buzzwords, slang and acronyms in your speech. The information and related speech exercises in this lesson will help you eliminate this empty language and make it easier for your listeners to understand you. Speech Exercise – Business Buzzwords To Avoid A speech exercise designed to help you eliminate buzzwords from your speech. Speech Lesson 6 – Speech Problem of Listening The sixth speech lesson of the Speak For Success course deals with the speech problem of listening. The information and related speech exercises in this lesson will help you become an active listener who participates fully in communication. Speech Lesson 7 – Speech Skills Wrap Up The final speech lesson of the Speak For Success course is the wrap up. The information and related speech exercises in this lesson will help you evaluate your progress in improving your oral communication skills. Speech Exercise – Speech Course Self Evaluation A speech exercise designed to help you evaluate your progress in improving your speech skills.
  • 4. Speak for Success Reference/Content owner: sbinfocanada, Susan Ward Disclaimer: I do not own the image/s used in this document. 4Speech Skills and Terminology Speech Skills and Terminology Speech Term Definitions & Speech Lessons For your convenience, this list of speech skills and terminology includes reference to the Speak For Success Speech Lesson each skill or term is a part of, as well as definitions. Clarity – speaking clearly so as to be understood. Clarity is composed of several different related speech skills: (covered in Speak for Success Speech Lesson 1, Speech Lesson 2 and Speech Lesson 5). Projection – speaking loudly enough so that every member of the audience can hear what is said. Enunciation – fully pronouncing each syllable of each word with the proper emphasis (covered in Speak for Success Speech Lesson 1). Pronunciation – correctly pronouncing each word. Expression – speaking with vocal variety and vitality so that the audience remains interested (covered in Speak for Success Speech Lesson 3). Pace – speaking at a rate that is comfortable for the audience to hear and comprehend (covered in Speak for Success Speech Lesson 4). Fillers – Using meaningless words or sounds that distract the audience (covered in Speak for Success Speech Lesson 2). Slang – Informal language that is specific to a particular group (covered in Speak for Success Speech Lesson 5). Buzzwords – Words or phrases that sound important but have become meaningless through endless repetition (covered in Speak for Success Speech Lesson 5). Acronyms – Sets of initials used as shorthand to refer to particular phrases (such as C.E.O. for Chief Executive Officer) (covered in Speak for Success Speech Lesson 5).
  • 5. Speak for Success Reference/Content owner: sbinfocanada, Susan Ward Disclaimer: I do not own the image/s used in this document. 5Speech Skills and Terminology Active Listening – Participating in the act of communication by paying attention and letting the speaker know that you’re paying attention (covered in Speak for Success Speech Lesson 6). Stance – Presenting and maintaining an appropriate posture to facilitate communication (covered in Speak for Success Speech Lesson 6). Eye-contact – Just what you think it is. When speaking to an audience of more than one, it’s important to make eye contact with as many individual members of the audience as possible ((covered in Speak for Success Speech Lesson 6). Speak for Success communication course This speech lesson, like all the speech lessons in the course, follows a format that explains the speech problem and presents several speech exercises so you can work on the problem. Each speech lesson closes with a homework assignment designed to provide further practice eliminating or correcting the speech problem that you’re working with that particular week. To get the most out of this course, you need to follow the program, working on only one lesson each week and completing all the exercises and homework assignments.
  • 6. Speak for Success Reference/Content owner: sbinfocanada, Susan Ward Disclaimer: I do not own the image/s used in this document. 6Speak For Success Speech Lesson 1 Speak For Success Speech Lesson 1 Stop Dropping Your G's; Enunciation Matters Speech Skill: Clarity The Speech Problem For listeners, one of the most irritating speech habits is a speaker that doesn’t enunciate clearly. When you don’t bother to pronounce each syllable of each word properly and words get slurred together, you sound uneducated. Worse, your listener has a hard time hearing you – especially if there’s other noise around you or when you’re speaking on the phone. Dropping “g”s is one of the most common examples of poor enunciation. Say this list of words out loud:  Going  Walking  Jogging  Thinking  Striking  Selling Did you say “go-ing” or did you say “go-in”? If you said “go-in” (or “walk-in”, “jog-gin”, etc.), you’re a G-dropper. Be warned; this was not a fair test. Pronouncing words in isolation is very different than what we normally do when we speak. Say these sentences out loud:  I’m going to have to rethink that bid.  Waiting to hear back from the bank is very nerve-wracking and stressful.  Before starting my business, I looked at a lot of different business opportunities.  There’s more to learning than just reading, writing and arithmetic. Did you drop any Gs? Did you enunciate each syllable of each word?
  • 7. Speak for Success Reference/Content owner: sbinfocanada, Susan Ward Disclaimer: I do not own the image/s used in this document. 7Speak For Success Speech Lesson 1 Speech Exercise: The Mirror Face Test A mirror is a great aid when you’re working on your enunciation. I call this the face test. When you’re enunciating properly, your mouth, tongue, lips and jaw move. Stand in front of a mirror and watch yourself while you say, “I’m going to have to rethink that bid”. See how your lips purse and retract when you say “go-ing”? See how your lips jut out to pronouce the “b” in “bid”? This one sentence is a real face workout. Say the rest of the sentences out loud, watching yourself speak in the mirror. Now say them all again, slowing down your rate of speech and exaggerating the facial movements. This week, you should have a mirror session of five minutes every day. You’ll immediately notice that this practice will carry over into your “normal” speaking life, causing you to be more conscious of the way you speak and speak more clearly. Additional Speech Exercise: Tongue Twisters Say each of the following sentences out loud three times each, as quickly as you can while fully enunciating each word. 1) Keeping customer’s content creates kingly profits. 2) Success seeds success. 3) Bigger business isn’t better business but better business brings bigger rewards. 4) Wanting won’t win; winning ways are active ways. 5) Seventeen sales slips slithered slowly southwards. 6) Don’t go deep into debt. 7) Ensuring excellence isn’t easy. 8) Time takes a terrible toll on intentions. Repeat this exercise as many times as you like.
  • 8. Speak for Success Reference/Content owner: sbinfocanada, Susan Ward Disclaimer: I do not own the image/s used in this document. 8Speak For Success Speech Lesson 1 Speech Exercise: Enlist a Speech Monitor Because it’s so hard to perform naturally when we’re focusing on speaking well, the best way to determine whether or not we’re enunciating properly when we speak and stop slurring and mumbling is to enlist a speech monitor. It’s a lot easier for someone else to pick up on our sloppy speech habits than to hear ourselves. For convenience, choose someone that lives with you (spouse, child, or roommate), explain that you’re working on your enunciation, and ask him or her to tell you whenever you drop a G or don’t speak clearly. Keep track of how often your speech monitor tells you you’ve committed this speech offense. What you should see, as you continue to practice speaking clearly, is the number of times your speech monitor hears you speaking sloppily decrease. Ready for the pressure situation? Ask someone who works with you regularly to be a speech monitor. The Benefits of Enunciation As your enunciation improves, your listeners will:  Form a better impression of you as you speak, thinking of you as an educated, knowledgeable person, more worthy of trust.  Be better able to focus on the message you’re communicating, rather than being distracted by the way you’re expressing yourself. Speech Lesson 1 Homework Assignment To get the most out of this course, as I said, it’s important that you do the exercises. Your speech won’t improve unless you work at it regularly. This week, you have two tasks; 1. Set aside five minutes a day where you can work with a mirror in a quiet place and practice the enunciation exercises above; 2. Enlist at least one speech monitor to help you catch your speech errors. Next week, you’ll tackle the speech problem of fillers.
  • 9. Speak for Success Reference/Content owner: sbinfocanada, Susan Ward Disclaimer: I do not own the image/s used in this document. 9Speak For Success Speech Lesson 2 Speak For Success Speech Lesson 2 Axe Those Fillers Speech Skill: Clarity The Speech Problem If sloppy enunciation is one of the most irritating speech habits, using excessive fillers while you speak is the most irritating speech habit. Fillers range from repetitious sounds, such as “uh”, “um” and the dreaded Canadian “eh”, through favourite catch words and phrases, such as “you know”, “anyway”, “all right” and “like”. I won’t even attempt to give a full list of them here, because new fillers such as “whatever” are continuously creeping into people’s speech. The problem with using fillers such as these when you speak is that they distract your listener – often to the point that he doesn’t hear anything you say. Your message is entirely lost, obscured by the thicket of fillers surrounding it. Think about the last time you listened to someone with the filler habit. Chances are good you spent the time he spoke either being annoyed or counting the number of times he said the filler phrase. And with some people, that number can be amazingly high. Some people tack fillers onto the end of every sentence, and sandwich them between every phrase. It becomes, you know, really difficult for them to say anything without adding these empty additional phrases, you know? And speech fillers are insidious. If you’re a person that uses fillers, you may not even be aware of the speech problem yourself. Fillers tend to become so embedded into our speech patterns that even once you’re aware that you’re using them, you’ll have a very hard time trying not to say them. Guard Against Stock Responses Even if you don’t usually stud your speech with fillers, you may find yourself falling back on stock responses that irritate your listeners. Stock responses are phrases that we develop over time to particular communication situations, such as statements that call for acknowledgement and nothing else. For instance, I once knew a person that responded, “Okey-dokey” whenever he was asked to do something. Now picture yourself as this person’s boss – and repeatedly having to ask him to do things. (Shudder.) Try to vary your response to these standard situations, rather than falling back on whatever your stock response is every time. Avoid slang and “cute” phrases as you would avoid the plague. If
  • 10. Speak for Success Reference/Content owner: sbinfocanada, Susan Ward Disclaimer: I do not own the image/s used in this document. 10Speak For Success Speech Lesson 2 you’re having trouble varying your responses, pick several neutral, formal phrases, such as “Right away”, “I will” and/or “Yes, certainly”, and stick to those. Speech Exercise: The Tell-Me Game This exercise is designed to test your speech to see if you use fillers and to identify your favourite filler words and phrases. You will need a partner, such as the person who agreed to be your speech monitor in Speak For Success Speech Lesson 1, to listen to you. Tell your partner the purpose of the game. His task is to identify and list all fillers as you speak. Set a timer for one minute. Your task is to speak for one minute on this topic:  Your business’s products and/or services. Do NOT allow yourself any time to think about the topic. Just speak. Speaking impromptu will more closely reproduce your “usual” speech habits. How did you do? Are you a filler user? If you are, there’s work to do to fix your sloppy speech habit. Continue to use the Tell-Me Game to try and cut down on the number of fillers you use in spontaneous speech. Increase the time of the exercise to two minutes. Speech Exercise: Additional Speech Topics For The Tell-Me Game You will need a partner for this exercise. As the listener, your partner’s role is to listen for the particular speech problem being worked on and record all instances of the speech problem. As the speaker, your role is to speak impromptu on one of the following speech topics for two minutes. Do NOT spend time thinking about the topic before you speak. 1. Your favourite hobby and why it’s your favourite. 2. What you would do if you won five million dollars on the lottery? 3. If you had unlimited resources, what would you do to improve your business? 4. What do you like best about what you do? Why? 5. Which of the five senses is most important? Why? 6. What skill or talent would you most like to have? Why? 7. Why is the current federal government doing such a bad job? 8. What should your town do to create a better climate for business?
  • 11. Speak for Success Reference/Content owner: sbinfocanada, Susan Ward Disclaimer: I do not own the image/s used in this document. 11Speak For Success Speech Lesson 2 9. What are the best places to eat in your town or city? Why? 10. What are the best things to do to relax? Why? 11. What’s the worst fault a person can have? Why? 12. If you could be young again, would you? Why? 13. What are the four things you least like to do? Why? 14. Who do you most admire? Why? 15. If you could visit any place in the world, where would you go? Why? 16. What are your three best personality traits? Why? 17. What do you like most about living where you live? Why? 18. What was the worst job you ever had? Why? 19. What was the best workshop or conference you’ve ever attended? Why? Increase the difficulty of this speech exercise by speaking impromptu on one of the topics above for three minutes - or even five minutes, if you dare. Speech Exercise: Have Your Fillers Monitored As the only way you’re going to eliminate fillers from your speech is through constant diligence, the help of your speech monitor (or monitors) will be invaluable. Once again, explain the speech problem you are working on, and have him tell you every time you commit this speech offence in his presence. If you’re serious about breaking this sloppy speech habit, having one monitor at home and one in your work environment is ideal. The Benefits of Eliminating Fillers As was the case with the first sloppy speech habit you tackled, as your speech fillers decrease, your listeners will:  Form a better impression of you as you speak, thinking of you as an educated, knowledgeable person, more worthy of trust;  Be better able to focus on the message you’re communicating, rather than being distracted by the way you’re expressing yourself. Speech Lesson 2 Homework Assignment Your first task this week is simple: use the Tell-Me Game at least once to identify your favourite filler words and phrases.
  • 12. Speak for Success Reference/Content owner: sbinfocanada, Susan Ward Disclaimer: I do not own the image/s used in this document. 12Speak For Success Speech Lesson 2 The second task is much harder; work to eliminate the extraneous fillers in your speech. Continue working with a partner and playing the Tell-Me-Game throughout the week. Get your speech monitor or monitors involved to help catch the fillers you use. As you become more conscious of the way you speak and practice speaking without fillers, you’ll find your filler use decrease. In the next speech lesson, you’ll work on the skill of expression.
  • 13. Speak for Success Reference/Content owner: sbinfocanada, Susan Ward Disclaimer: I do not own the image/s used in this document. 13Speak For Success Speech Lesson 3 Speak For Success Speech Lesson 3 Enthusiasm and Monotones Don’t Mix Speech Skill: Expression The Speech Problem Speaking in a monotonous voice is a real communication killer. When the variety of your voice’s pitch doesn’t vary, it’s impossible for your listener to maintain any interest in what you’re saying. He tunes out – quickly. Once again, your message falls by the wayside. But even if he did hear it, he probably wouldn’t believe it. People who speak in a monotone or with inappropriate expression in their voices are perceived as untrustworthy, boring, or even shifty. As a business, sales or professional person, you can see why you’d want to fix this sloppy speech problem right away! Other Speech Problems of Expression Now, you may be saying to yourself (with a sigh of relief), “I certainly don’t speak in a monotone!” That’s excellent news, but unfortunately, the obvious monotone, where there is no variety of pitch in the voice, is only one sloppy speech habit related to expression. A far more common problem is a lack of appropriate vocal variety, or, as I call it, tired voice. If you have tired voice, your speech just doesn’t convey the appropriate emotional shadings and vitality that make people’s voices interesting and pleasant to hear. Think of it this way; your voice is as much a part of your signature style as the color of your eyes or the way you walk. People can identify you by these signature traits. And in some cases, people have developed “signature” voices that are grating, braying, booming or otherwise just downright unpleasant for other people to listen to – because their voices are not suitably expressive. The good news is that having a monotonous or tired voice is not a life sentence. Everyone can change their signature voice (to some degree, barring physical complications) – just as we can change the way we walk or even the colour of our eyes. Speech Exercise: Emotion Sentences The purpose of this exercise is to practice getting more vocal variety into your speech, so you are going to be saying these sentences in different ways.
  • 14. Speak for Success Reference/Content owner: sbinfocanada, Susan Ward Disclaimer: I do not own the image/s used in this document. 14Speak For Success Speech Lesson 3 First, say the sentence out loud as you would if you were ecstatically happy. Then say the same sentence out loud as you would if you were extremely sad. 1. I just got a call saying that I won a vacation in Las Vegas. 2. I’m going to have to change that light bulb. 3. Our town now has a new recycling program. 4. My next door neighbour is moving out next week. 5. I’ll be able to retire in only two more years. Speech Exercise: Belief Sentences The purpose of this exercise is to practice conveying meaning through expression in your speech; so once again, you are going to be saying these sentences in different ways. First, say the sentence out loud as you would if you truly believed the statement. Then say the same sentence out loud as you would if you didn’t believe what you were saying and wanted to convey your disbelief to your listener. 1. You’ll never regret buying one of these. 2. This extended warranty is a great deal. 3. This is definitely a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. 4. What I’m doing now is the best thing I’ve ever done. 5. I am the best at what I do. Speech Exercise: Drama Queens and Kings Picture yourself as a star of a long-running soap opera or TV show. What do stars do? They emote. This role-playing speech exercise will help you develop a more expressive voice by exaggerating your normal pitch and rhythm. Put as much expression into your role as you can, following the stage directions. It’s best if you work with a partner, as the script is written for two people – although trying to play both roles can be fun, too! Speech Exercise Script Daphne: (horribly upset) It’s all over, Rodney.
  • 15. Speak for Success Reference/Content owner: sbinfocanada, Susan Ward Disclaimer: I do not own the image/s used in this document. 15Speak For Success Speech Lesson 3 Rodney: (anxiously) What do you mean? Daphne: I mean I just can’t go on like this. The sneaking around, the hiding, trying to make sure that no one sees us... Rodney: (compassionately) It hasn’t been easy for me, either, you know. Daphne: I know... I know... Rodney: I mean, it’s just not what we’re used to, is it? I know that you understand, but other people... What if they found out? I can’t stop thinking about it. Daphne: (brutally) We’d never be able to hold up our heads again. We’d be outcasts. Rodney: (firmly) If we just stick together, we can get through it. Where’s your famous will power? Daphne: But it’s driving me mad. How much worse than this could it be? I just can’t stop thinking about it. Rodney: So that’s it, then? You’re just going to throw in the towel? Daphne: I have to, Rodney. Don’t you understand? I thought you of all people... Rodney: (bitterly) Oh, I understand, all right. Go ahead then. You always do just what you want to do anyhow. Daphne: (outraged) That’s not true! How dare you accuse me of being selfish after all the sacrifices I’ve made! Rodney: See? All you can talk about is your sacrifices. As if I haven’t made any. And now you’re being selfish again. How do you think I’m going to be able to carry on by myself? Daphne: (snidely) Well you were the one that was talking about will power. Rodney: Yeah, right. As if I’m going to be able to stick to this protein only diet once you start filling the cupboards with bread and doughnuts again! End Speech Exercise Script
  • 16. Speak for Success Reference/Content owner: sbinfocanada, Susan Ward Disclaimer: I do not own the image/s used in this document. 16Speak For Success Speech Lesson 3 Like any star, you may rerun these lines any number of times. For more variety, change the stage directions. In the opening lines, have Daphne speak calmly and Rodney curiously, for instance. Reading the lines of published plays and scripts out loud is another great way to practice increasing the expression in your voice – and of course, to continue polishing your clarity speech skills. The Benefits of Improving Your Speech Expression As your voice expression increases, your listeners will:  Be more interested in what you’re saying and more attentive;  Be more likely to be receptive to you and the message you’re communicating. Speech Lesson 3 Homework Assignment Set aside a minimum of 15 minutes a day this week to work on your voice expression. Start by working through the exercises on and linked to this page. You will want to go through each of these speech exercises at least three times. In addition, you’ll want to start working with other passages. As I suggest at the end of the Drama Queens and Kings exercise, published plays are an excellent source of material for improving your expression speech skill. Reading poetry out loud is another excellent practice. Perhaps the best source of speech exercise material is children’s books. When we read one of these aloud to a child, we tend to try out a variety of different voices and exaggerate the expression in our voices in response to the child’s response as we read. If you have no children’s books (or children) on hand, remember that any fiction will work. Use your fifteen minutes a day to read out loud. It’s best if you read to an audience, as having an audience will help you focus on using expression to interest (and perhaps enthral) your listeners. Over time as you consistently practice this speech skill, you’ll find your “signature” voice change - becoming both more expressive and more pleasing. A speech lesson especially for those who speak too quickly or too slowly is up next
  • 17. Speak for Success Reference/Content owner: sbinfocanada, Susan Ward Disclaimer: I do not own the image/s used in this document. 17Speak For Success Speech Lesson 4 Speak For Success Speech Lesson 4 Motor mouths Don’t Make Sales Speech Skill: Pace The Speech Problem Speaking too quickly is one of the most common speech problems – perhaps because almost all of us tend to speed up our speech when we’re stressed or excited. And when are we not stressed when we’re working? Making a cold call, meeting a new contact, working on a project with a deadline – all of these situations are stressful and cause all kinds of physiological responses, including speeding up our speech. Some people, however, are genuine “motor mouths” – people who always speak rapidly. Speaking too slowly is much less common, but believe it or not, there are people who tend to speak naturally with a rate of speed that leaves gaps between words and drawls out syllables to extremes. The trick to speaking at an appropriate pace is remembering that you need to speak at a rate that allows your listener to understand what you’re saying. Listening is not a one-step process; we have to physically hear what is said and then translate language into meaning. If we speak too quickly, this vital second step of the process is lost. Like expression, the natural rate at which you speak is part of your speech signature. The problem with speaking at a pace that’s either too fast or too slow is that it interferes with communication. When you speak too quickly, you literally “blow away” your listener. He can’t mentally keep up with you and will quickly stop trying. While a small part of your message may get through, most won’t. When you speak too slowly, your listener has too much time for processing, and the mind either locks on how irritatingly slowly you’re speaking or wanders off to more interesting things. If you hear phrases such as “Could you repeat that?” often, or often encounter glazed looks, you’re probably a person who usually speaks too quickly or too slowly.
  • 18. Speak for Success Reference/Content owner: sbinfocanada, Susan Ward Disclaimer: I do not own the image/s used in this document. 18Speak For Success Speech Lesson 4 Slowing Your Speech Down Focusing on our enunciation when we speak is one good way to slow down our speech. When we focus on enunciating clearly, (as you did in Speech Lesson 1), we force ourselves to stop slurring and eliding syllables when we speak. Another way to slow down our speech is to concentrate on phrasing. Oral speech, just like written speech, is composed of phrases and sentences. In fact, the punctuation of written speech is simply a set of sign posts to tell us how the written information should be phrased. For instance, when I wrote: “If you hear phrases such as “Could you repeat that?” often, or often encounter glazed looks, you’re probably a person who usually speaks too quickly or too slowly,” the punctuation dictates that when you read or say this sentence, you are going to pause briefly after the question mark, pause again after the word ‘often’ because of the comma, and again after ‘looks’. The sentence should be read the same way, whether you read it silently or read it out loud. But people who speak too quickly tend to ignore phrasing entirely. They don’t pause for commas, hyphens, question marks or even periods, jamming all the phrases together. Therefore, concentrating on the phrasing can really help slow down speedy speakers. Speech Exercise: Practicing Phrasing Go back to the start of this speech lesson and read it out loud, using the punctuation to guide your phrasing. Think of a period or semi-colon as a pause twice as long as a comma. Speech Exercise: Five Step How-Tos Because the pace of speech and comprehension are so closely linked, this exercise focuses on speaking at the optimum pace for making your message understood. You will need a partner to work through this speech exercise. His or her task is to comprehend what you’re saying and give you feedback about your speech pace. As the speaker, your task is to tell him or her how to do something in five steps. You may jot down the five steps you’re going to use as speaking points on a piece of paper before you begin, if you wish. Choose one of the following speech topics and think of five steps describing how to do it. Then tell your partner how to go about it.
  • 19. Speak for Success Reference/Content owner: sbinfocanada, Susan Ward Disclaimer: I do not own the image/s used in this document. 19Speak For Success Speech Lesson 4 Speech Topics: 1. How to perfectly boil an egg 2. How to plant a tree 3. How to send an email 4. How to handle a customer complaint 5. How to send a fax 6. How to evaluate an employee 7. How to replace a printer cartridge 8. How to impress a client 9. How to give a good speech 10. How to make the perfect cup of coffee or tea When you’ve finished speaking, ask your partner to repeat the five steps you spoke of. Did he or she get all of them? If not, why? Did you speak too quickly or too slowly or was there some other speech problem that interfered with communication? Rerun the exercise with a different topic as many times as you like The Benefits of Improving Your Speech Pace When you speak at an appropriate pace, your listeners will:  Be more interested in what you’re saying and more attentive;  Be more likely to comprehend the message you’re communicating. Speech Lesson 4 Homework Assignment Set aside a minimum of 15 minutes a day this week to work on your voice pace. Once you’ve worked through the exercises on and linked to this page, I want you to continue your oral reading program throughout the week. Fiction or non-fiction will work, as long as the piece is properly punctuated. As you read out loud, concentrate on your enunciation and following the phrasing as directed by the punctuation. Those of you who enjoy a challenge will benefit from dipping into some literary classics, such as novels by Austen, Hardy, Dickens and Thackeray. The sentence structure will provide a great phrasing workout.
  • 20. Speak for Success Reference/Content owner: sbinfocanada, Susan Ward Disclaimer: I do not own the image/s used in this document. 20Speak For Success Speech Lesson 4 The next step is much harder, but I want you to start working on it right away, too. Start visualizing the punctuation before you speak. Whether you’re on the phone or talking to someone in person, before you say what you’re going to say, “see” the sentences, complete with their periods and commas, and then say it. If you can master this, the pace at which you speak will slow down considerably – even if you’re stressed. And once again, tell your speech monitor what speech skill you’re working on this week, and get him or her to warn you when you’re speaking too quickly or too slowly. In the next speech lesson, you’ll be taking a look at buzzwords and slang and how they can destroy communication.
  • 21. Speak for Success Reference/Content owner: sbinfocanada, Susan Ward Disclaimer: I do not own the image/s used in this document. 21Speak For Success Speech Lesson 5 Speak For Success Speech Lesson 5 Buzzwords and Slang Bury Your Message Speech Skill: Clarity The Speech Problem We live in a world littered with acronyms, buzzwords and slang. Right now, for instance, I’m tired of people leveraging everything all over the place. A friend recently told me that she’d leveraged her portfolio. I thought she was talking about stocks, but she meant that she had a job interview. This was just a personal, minor misunderstanding. But acronyms, buzzwords and slang can cause misunderstandings that cost time and money when we’re trying to do business. As business people and professionals, we need to be sure that we’re speaking the right language to the right people at the right time. Both slang and buzzwords are types of informal, trendy language; both obscure meaning. Slang is “informal language consisting of words and expressions that are not considered appropriate for formal occasions; often vituperative or vulgar” or “the characteristic language of a particular group” (HyperDictionary). So on the one hand, your listener may not understand what’s said because he isn’t a member of the selective group that knows that lingo; on the other, he may understand it very well but be offended by it. Another problem with using slang to attempt to communicate is that many of us tend to get trapped in slang time warps. Unless you live in a house with teenagers or are currently attending a post-secondary educational institute, the slang you’re trying to use is probably hopelessly out of date. (Remember the phrase, “far out”? Or “lame”? If you do, don’t admit it to anyone!) Buzzwords are “stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition” (HyperDictionary), or, if you prefer, “important-sounding words or phrases used primarily to impress laypersons” (BuzzWhack.com). Currently, for example, every business under the sun is including the word “solutions” in their marketing copy and conversations, to the point that the word is just a meaningless filler. Speech Exercise: Business Buzzwords To Avoid The easy part of the exercise: read this list of business buzzwords. The hard part of the exercise: strip these meaningless buzzwords from your speech (and from your thinking).
  • 22. Speak for Success Reference/Content owner: sbinfocanada, Susan Ward Disclaimer: I do not own the image/s used in this document. 22Speak For Success Speech Lesson 5 Actionable Actualize Best practice Conceptualize Cash-neutral Cost-centered Customer-centered Customer-directed Empowered Empowerment Game plan Heads-up Intellectual capital Knowledge management Leverage Low-hanging fruit Market segment Mission critical Mission statement Operationalize Outside the box Paradigm shift Positioning Push the envelope Ramp up Resource constrained Risk management Smart size Solution Strategic fit Strategic alliance Synergize Touch base Value-added Vision Statement Win-Win Shorthand Can Short-change Your Listeners Acronyms are abbreviations formed from the first letters of each word of a phrase that are sometimes used as words in themselves. They’re popular because basically we’re a lazy bunch
  • 23. Speak for Success Reference/Content owner: sbinfocanada, Susan Ward Disclaimer: I do not own the image/s used in this document. 23Speak For Success Speech Lesson 5 and using a set of initials rather than writing or saying several words saves effort. Some common ones are:  ASP - Application Service Provider  B2B - Business to Business  BAU - Business As Usual  BAFO - Best And Final Offer  RFP - Request for Proposal  ROI - Return on Investment What works as shorthand in the office doesn’t necessarily translate when you’re speaking with customers or clients. Perfectly appropriate acronyms you use in-house may just be gobbledygook to clients. I’m not saying that acronyms should never be used; just that you should use them selectively. To make it easier on yourself, set up and follow a rule never to use acronyms when communicating with customers and/or clients, no matter what form the communication takes. Clarity is worth the price of convenience. Speech Exercise: Adding Acronyms Return to the list of acronyms above and add at least five different acronyms – preferably ones that you are in the habit of using. As the purpose of this exercise is to start focusing on the acronyms in your speech, you may find it easier to add to the list throughout the week as acronyms crop up when you’re communicating. The Benefits of Cutting Slang, Buzzwords and Acronyms When you cut these from your speech, your listeners will:  Be less likely to feel alienated or offended;  Be more likely to comprehend the message you’re communicating. Speech Lesson 5 Homework Assignment First, complete the exercises on and linked to this page. Just by doing this, you’ll become more aware of the kind of empty, informal language that you want to eliminate from your speech.
  • 24. Speak for Success Reference/Content owner: sbinfocanada, Susan Ward Disclaimer: I do not own the image/s used in this document. 24Speak For Success Speech Lesson 5 To help you cut slang, buzzwords and acronyms from your speech, I want you to keep a Speech Diary. Each day, as you communicate with others, be aware of what you’re saying and write down any instances of slang, buzzwords, or acronyms that you use. If you do this conscientiously, by the end of the week, two things will happen; you’ll have a list of the empty language that you personally use, and the number of times you use particular instances of the slang, buzzwords and acronyms that are weakening your communication will decrease. Enlist the aid of your speech monitor again this week, asking him or her to tell you whenever you use slang, buzzwords or acronyms instead of real, meaningful words. In the next speech skills lesson, you’ll learn why what you don’t say is just as important as what you do say, as you work on Active Listening.
  • 25. Speak for Success Reference/Content owner: sbinfocanada, Susan Ward Disclaimer: I do not own the image/s used in this document. 25Speak For Success Speech Lesson 6 Speak For Success Speech Lesson 6 Active Listening Is The Most Important Thing You Say Speech Skill: Listening The Speech Problem Assuming that you truly want to communicate with others, listening is the most important speech skill of all. Unfortunately, it’s also the speech skill that is practiced the least. Remember the joke about the psychiatrist? There he is, in his office, with a patient on the couch. While the patient pours his heart out, the psychiatrist is thinking about his upcoming dinner. That’s the way it is with most of us, much of the time. We’re thinking about other things instead of listening to whoever is speaking to us. There’s a grain of truth to the adage, “in one ear and out the other”, except that often the information doesn’t even enter the one ear in the first place. It will sound strange to refer to this as a sloppy speech habit, but it is. We’re wired to listen; we just don’t bother doing it all the time. Because we can get away with it, most of the time, the speaker won’t know we’re not listening. As long as we continue to face him, keep a suitable expression on our face, and don’t do something blatant such as belt out a show tune, how will he know that we’re actually somewhere else entirely? He won’t. But you do. And you’re the one that has to make a commitment to truly listening. In other words, I want you to become an active listener. To listen actively, you need to change from being a passive target to being a contributor to the communication. Make this one change, and you’ll improve your communication skills a thousand fold. Three Techniques For Active Listening 1) Setting The Stage For Listening – Stop whatever else you are doing. Turn to face the speaker and make eye contact. If you’re standing, your arms should be held loosely at your sides. If you’re sitting, place your hands in your lap or loosely along each arm of the chair. Whether standing or sitting, do not cross your arms, which sends out a negative message. If you’re sitting, your legs should also be uncrossed. Lean slightly towards the speaker. You want your body language to send the message that you are receptive to the speaker’s message.
  • 26. Speak for Success Reference/Content owner: sbinfocanada, Susan Ward Disclaimer: I do not own the image/s used in this document. 26Speak For Success Speech Lesson 6 2) Appropriate Advancement – As the speaker speaks, make appropriate comments that advance the conversation. Just saying “um” or “ah” here and there won’t do it. You need to show the speaker that you’re actively listening to what he’s saying by making statements or asking questions that show that you’ve been paying attention. Like the next technique, summarizing, this active listening technique works well in both face-to-face and communication situations where the speaker can’t see you. 3) Summarizing - This is a particularly powerful technique for showing the speaker you’ve been paying attention whether you’re in a face-to-face situation or listening over the phone. You can use it during conversation by saying something such as, “You were saying that...” and simply restating the speaker’s last point. Its most powerful use is at the end of the conversation, when it’s “officially” your turn to respond. Start by saying, “You said that...” and then summarize the speaker’s key points, closing by adding an action statement, something you will do as a result of what the speaker has said. For example, “You said that you don’t feel that I’ve been listening to you because I keep facing my computer screen when you’re talking, and don’t seem to have anything to add to the conversation. From now on, I’ll give you my full attention when you speak to me.” Speech Exercise: Practice Active Listening You will need a partner for this exercise. Return to the list of topics used in Speech Lesson 2. Speech Exercise: Additional Speech Topics For The Tell-Me Game This time, you are going to be the listener instead of the speaker. Have your partner choose one of the speech topics and speak impromptu for two minutes. Your task is to be an active listener, and apply the three active listening techniques above. (Don’t forget to set the stage properly!) Perform this exercise at least three times, using different speech topics and working up to a speech time of three minutes. The Benefits of Active Listening When you listen actively, people communicating with you will:  Feel more confident that they’ve actually communicated a message to you.  Feel more positive about you and the message you’re communicating.
  • 27. Speak for Success Reference/Content owner: sbinfocanada, Susan Ward Disclaimer: I do not own the image/s used in this document. 27Speak For Success Speech Lesson 6 Speech Lesson 6 Homework Assignment After you’ve practiced the exercise on and linked to this page, you need to continue practice being an active listener. Concentrate on this speech skill this week by trying to apply the three techniques of active listening to every conversation you have. Set up a session with your Speech Monitor or with the partner that you first did your Active Listening practice with for the end of the week and go through the Active Listening exercise on this page one more time. Ask him or her to evaluate how you are performing each of the three active listening techniques explained in this lesson. Next week, we’ll wrap up the course.
  • 28. Speak for Success Reference/Content owner: sbinfocanada, Susan Ward Disclaimer: I do not own the image/s used in this document. 28Speak For Success Speech Lesson 7 Speak For Success Speech Lesson 7 Speech Course Wrap Up You’ve now worked through six lessons designed to shape up your speech. If I’ve succeeded in my goal for this course, you’re now able to speak more confidently and better able to communicate with your listeners - and this improved ability to communicate is already translating into more success for you in your business, job or profession. However, you know how easy it is to fall back into sloppy speech habits. We have a lot of things going on, and other things to pay attention to. If you need or want to go back and review a particular speech problem, this list of skills covered by each speech lesson will help you find the speech problem you want to go back and work on. Speak For Success Lesson 1 - Stop Dropping Your Gs; Enunciation Matters (Speech Skill: Clarity) Speak For Success Lesson 2 – Axe Those Fillers (Speech Skill: Clarity) Speak For Success Lesson 3 – Enthusiasm and Monotones Don’t Mix (Speech Skill: Expression) Speak For Success Lesson 4 – Motor mouths Don’t Make Sales (Speech Skill: Pace) Speak For Success Lesson 5 – Buzzwords and Slang Bury Your Message (Speech Skill: Clarity) Speak For Success Lesson 6 – Active Listening Is the Most Important Thing You Say (Speech Skill: Listening) Speech Exercise: Self-Evaluation Think back over the course and use the self-evaluation chart in the linked exercise to evaluate your progress. (I’ve put this on a separate page to make to easier to print out.) Speech Lesson 7 Homework Assignment Meet with your Speech Monitor or Monitors. Thank him or her for helping you work through the various speech exercises. Have him or her read through your self-evaluation and agree or
  • 29. Speak for Success Reference/Content owner: sbinfocanada, Susan Ward Disclaimer: I do not own the image/s used in this document. 29Speak For Success Speech Lesson 7 disagree with how you’ve evaluated your progress. Then sit back and relax. You’ve completed the Speak For Success Course! It’s my earnest hope that you’ll continue to apply the techniques and materials presented in this course. If you do, I know your speech skills will continue to improve – and you’ll reap even more benefits from being able to communicate well with those around you. (This exercise is part of the Speak for Success Course. While you can use this exercise to evaluate your speech skills at any time, it’s designed to be specific to this course) Speak For Success Course Self-Evaluation Name ___________________________ Date ___________________________ For each of the following speech skills listed in the table below, rate your proficiency, using the following scale: 1 – Extremely poor 2 – Below satisfactory 3 --Satisfactory 4 – Good 5 – Excellent
  • 30. Speak for Success Reference/Content owner: sbinfocanada, Susan Ward Disclaimer: I do not own the image/s used in this document. 30Speak For Success Speech Lesson 7 Finish this sentence: I feel that I have made the best progress on the speech skill of _______________________________. And this one: The speech skill I still most need to work on is _______________________________. Speech Skills to Evaluate Enunciation 1 2 3 4 5 Lack of Fillers 1 2 3 4 5 Expression 1 2 3 4 5 Pace 1 2 3 4 5 Lack of Slang 1 2 3 4 5 Lack of Buzzwords 1 2 3 4 5 Lack of Acronyms 1 2 3 4 5 Active Listening 1 2 3 4 5