Public Speaking Topics - How to Select Engaging, Interesting Topics for Your Speech

Finding good public speaking topics for your speeches is harder than it might sound at first. Not only do you have to deal with the stress of giving a speech in the first place, but you also have to find a topic that you can quickly learn about, master, and convey to your audience. You want your audience to be engaged and interested. So how do you find something they want to know?

First off, it helps if you can find a topic that you enjoy or at least have some basic interest in. Without interest, you will lack enthusiasm, and that will come across to your audience. By speaking about something you are passionate about, you will immediately grab your audience's attention.

For a persuasive speech, where you are trying to get facts across to your audience that persuade them to take action on something, you need a story. Facts and statistics only do so much to persuade them. Tugging on their heartstrings with a story is a much better way to appeal to your audience persuasively.

When selecting public speaking topics, you should ask yourself a few questions.

1. What does your audience care about? What is important to them to learn?
2. What are your own goals in the speech? Are you persuading them, educating them, or merely entertaining your audience?
3. What kind of speech do you need to give? Statistical, informative, or persuasive?

These are a few good questions to start with when you're trying to select a topic and don't know where to start. Obviously the more thorough you can get in your research of both your audience and your topic, the better. If you take the time to understand what your audience wants, you'll be able to communicate with them a lot better.

Public speaking topics are definitely important when you want to give an effective speech, so spend some time researching your audience - either through the internet, by talking to them directly, or whatever means you prefer. Then you can compile data about a particular area of interest in the field that your audience will also be interested in. Then you can work on writing a good speech that will persuade, inform, or entertain them.

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