{"id":14,"date":"2019-03-26T14:52:25","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T14:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vilarem.net\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2024-07-06T08:00:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T07:00:01","slug":"parler-en-public","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vilarem.net\/en\/toastmasters\/parler-en-public\/","title":{"rendered":"Public speaking : an introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Public speaking is as old as history. We find traces of it as far as Greece, at the time when it was the birthplace of democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-blockquote uagb-blockquote__outer-wrap uagb-block-97e4f034\"><div class=\"uagb-blockquote__wrap uagb-blockquote__skin-border uagb-blockquote__with-tweet uagb-blockquote__tweet-style-classic uagb-blockquote__tweet-icon_text uagb-blockquote__stack-img-none\"><blockquote class=\"uagb-blockquote\"><div class=\"uagb-blockquote__content-wrap\"><div class=\"uagb-blockquote__content\">There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.<\/div><footer><div class=\"uagb-blockquote__author-wrap uagb-blockquote__author-at-left\"><cite class=\"uagb-blockquote__author\"><strong>Mark Twain<\/strong><\/cite><\/div><a href=\"\/\" class=\"uagb-blockquote__tweet-button\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><svg width=\"20\" height=\"20\" viewbox=\"0 0 512 512\"><path d=\"M459.37 151.716c.325 4.548.325 9.097.325 13.645 0 138.72-105.583 298.558-298.558 298.558-59.452 0-114.68-17.219-161.137-47.106 8.447.974 16.568 1.299 25.34 1.299 49.055 0 94.213-16.568 130.274-44.832-46.132-.975-84.792-31.188-98.112-72.772 6.498.974 12.995 1.624 19.818 1.624 9.421 0 18.843-1.3 27.614-3.573-48.081-9.747-84.143-51.98-84.143-102.985v-1.299c13.969 7.797 30.214 12.67 47.431 13.319-28.264-18.843-46.781-51.005-46.781-87.391 0-19.492 5.197-37.36 14.294-52.954 51.655 63.675 129.3 105.258 216.365 109.807-1.624-7.797-2.599-15.918-2.599-24.04 0-57.828 46.782-104.934 104.934-104.934 30.213 0 57.502 12.67 76.67 33.137 23.715-4.548 46.456-13.32 66.599-25.34-7.798 24.366-24.366 44.833-46.132 57.827 21.117-2.273 41.584-8.122 60.426-16.243-14.292 20.791-32.161 39.308-52.628 54.253z\"><\/path><\/svg><span class=\"uagb-blockquote__tweet-label\">Tweet<\/span><\/a><\/footer><\/div><\/blockquote><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This &#8220;art&#8221; or practice goes back a long way in human history, yet there nothing more current and modern. Speaking in a meeting in front of colleagues to present your recent activity or to defend a proposal, making a toast with the family, contributing to the debate during an association meeting, passing an interview&#8230; All this belongs to public speaking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The opportunities are endless and sometimes the stakes can be high. And we are all struggling with this exercise. We find it more or less difficult and we are and more or less able to pretend. But we all face difficulty there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toastmasters.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/toastmasters.org\">Toastmasters<\/a>, which I discovered late in 2014, allows club members to practice speaking in public, to progress both thanks to the educational paths &#8220;Pathways&#8221; developed and offered by Toastmasters International and thanks to the to interactions with others. Seeing seasoned speakers do their thing, imitating them or getting inspiration from them, seeing beginners struggle, measuring the progress you have made, helping beginners to progress and progress also by doing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the Toastmasters experience &#8230; or at least the beginning of the experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You quickly discover that the Toastmasters universe is percolated with the notion of &#8220;leadership&#8221; and quickly realize that the two notions are intimately linked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When you want to speak in public, it&#8217;s never to explain brilliantly that you have nothing to say. When we speak in front of an audience, it is necessarily to bring something &#8230; fun, inspiration, ideas, awareness, desire for change&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It cannot be nothing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hence speaking necessarily has a motivation (whether conscious or not). The desire to have an impact (no matter if it is a big or a small impact) on the world. The desire to induce something, to inspire a change, to improve the world around us a least a little bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And this ability to influence (even a little) the world and the people around us is what I found most accurate to describe the idea of leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An entrepreneur who starts up an initiative to reduce global warming is a leader, but a storyteller who helps his audience to escape from reality for a few moments is also a leader, a friend who alleviates your pain with his words is also a leader, parents who inspire their children and give them human values \u200b\u200bor a teacher who communicates the desire to learn and progress are just as much leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And our world needs leaders and speakers more than ever to inspire change &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public speaking is as old as history. We find traces of it as far as Greece, at the time when it was the birthplace of democracy. 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