Welcome everyone to our Season 1 Episode Finale!

Teamwork is essential in almost every aspect of life, including work, sports, school, and relationships. The importance of teamwork cannot be overstated as it helps individuals achieve common goals and objectives that would be difficult or impossible to attain alone.

In today's podcast, we focus on the importance of impressions. Impressions can be lasting and powerful, and can shape how a person is perceived by others in both personal and professional situations. How do we create a great first impression? If the first impression wasn't very good, is there a way to fix it? How do you leave a long-lasting impression after your speech? All these questions and more are discussed!

What was the most entertaining speech you've heard? Was it your professor speaking in a monotone fashion or a comedian who could express their jokes in a memorable and exciting way?

The skill comedians showcase is called Vocal Variety, and this skill is just as transferrable into speeches to make your prepared speeches and everyday communication memorable. Vocal variety refers to the use of different speech elements such as pitch and tone, pace, volume, and pronunciation to make speech more engaging and interesting. This can be used to convey emotions, add emphasis, or to maintain the listener's attention.

Join us today in our podcast where David, Jay and Anson will share examples and their stories on how vocal variety makes their speeches pop out.

Listening is an important part of being an audience. Yes, an audience is just as important in a speech, since there won't be any presentation if there is nobody to present it to!

Listening is not just hearing what the other party in the conversation has to say. Listening means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told to us. You can either take interest, or not take interest in the subject being explained.

Listening is important for both as a speaker and an evaluator, as taking important notes and important ques in the speaker's tone will differentiate those who recognize the importance and those who don't.

Join David, Jay and Anson today as they share how important listening is and how to become a better listener.

As social beings, we passively read body language to find out if the other person is interested in what we are discussing or not. This is compounded more when you are speaking at the audience, where the audience sees every move, posture and hand gestures.

Join today's podcast with David, Jay and Anson where they discuss more on the importance of body language and how to use gestures to your advantage to highlight the important bits of your speech.

Having a strong introduction will propel your speech to greater lengths.

In today's podcast, David, Jay and Anson will introduce and go through the 5 different methods of starting an introduction to your speech by using a relevance, introduction, credibility, thesis, and mentioning topic title.

Remember the first speech you've presented? How did you feel? Nervous? Excited? There are many different experiences and a concoction of feelings a public speaker would feel.

In today's episode, David, Jay and Anson will share their first time giving a speech, and how to get over the tipping point for them to get started in their public speaking journey.

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Join David, Jay and Anson in figuring out what methods of presenting your chosen topic. In today's podcast, the trio will share the four types of topics: informative, persuasive, motivational and entertaining.

While going through each of the types, the trio will share personal stories, examples and how to provide those types of speeches.