131: The Art of Public Speaking with Dr. Ray Hull…PLUS How Fast Are You Talking?!
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How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 17 March 2017
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Ray Hull discusses how you can develop your skills in public speaking to make more memorable presentations – and we go “meta” comparing speaking rates – Ray/Pete/Walter Cronkite/TED Talkers/YOU – how do we stack up?
You’ll Learn:
- How to overcome public speaking jitters
- Approaches to starting and ending a speech strong
- Perspectives on the optimal rate of speech
About Ray
Ray H. Hull, PhD is Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders/Neuroscience, College of Health Professions at Wichita State University. He is CEO/President of Communication Solutions, Inc. He has authored 14 books on the art of communication and disorders of communication, over 600 presentations on communication-the art of at conferences in the U.S., Europe, Canada and South America, and over 70 professional articles, with numerous national awards for his professional service including the Public Health Service Award for service on behalf of persons with communicative disorders, Fellowship of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Distinguished Scholar at both the University of Colorado and Wichita State University, Who’s Who Among America’s Educators, The Red River Award, Winnipeg, Man., and many others.
Items Mentioned in this Show:
- Book: The Art of Learning and Self-Development by Ray Hull and Jim Stovall
- Book: The Art of Presentation by Ray Hull and Jim Stovall
- Research: TED talkers rate of speech
- Ep. 24: Anshul Bhagi on Ummo, the speech coaching app
- App: Ummo
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete McKitis. |
| 0:17.0 | Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 131 with Dr. Ray Hall. |
| 0:27.0 | Ray is an expert on speech and speech disorders and has taught and published a ton in this world. |
| 0:34.3 | And we're going to hear from his years of wisdom and research here, so you're going to walk away |
| 0:38.8 | learning one, how to overcome public speaking jitters. |
| 0:41.7 | Two, approaches to starting and ending a speech strong, |
| 0:46.3 | and three, some meta perspective on the optimal rate of speech how fast you're talking. |
| 0:52.4 | So if you want to check out the show notes or the |
| 0:54.3 | transcript or the links to items that we mentioned here, check out awesome at your job |
| 0:58.4 | dot com slash eep one three one. While you're there I recommend you get some of our goodies such as if you'd like to be taking notes, but you can't because you're driving or running or something, the Golden Nugget email list is a solution for you. It summarizes the wisdom of each guest and email you can read quickly and you can sort of copy, paste, mark that up from there and notes complete. |
| 1:20.0 | Mostly done for you. There's also the 10 days to winning at work email course |
| 1:24.5 | that provides tips, tools, and tactics to help slash through some of the waste that |
| 1:28.9 | pops up in your work week. So check those things out. One thing I'd ask for you to pay particular attention to in this conversation is our rates of speaking. |
| 1:39.0 | You'll note that we operate perhaps at some different extremes here with Dr Ray operating at a lower |
| 1:47.3 | rate of speech in terms of words per minute and me at a higher rate of speech which got me all |
| 1:52.0 | curious so our transcriptionist went ahead and |
| 1:55.0 | took some extra time to take a look at segments from Ray and from myself and from |
| 2:00.6 | Walter Cronkai and I pulled some other stuff in for the TED Talkers and to see what that range looks like. |
| 2:08.0 | So we're going to reflect on that at the after portion of this interview so you can get a feel and listen for hmm which |
| 2:15.3 | rate of speech jives with me what's too fast what's too slow how would I like to |
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