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5 Stupid Speaking Sins by Speakers – Public Speaking Tips by

Loy Machedo
By Machedo

Updated: November 23, 2011

Here are 5 of the old embarrassing out-dated tricks some speakers employ to make speaking sound great but
in reality makes it more like a verbal diarrhea.

Testing the microphone with ‘Hello, Test’ or ‘Mic Test’ or ‘Hello Check’ or ‘Check, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5’ or ‘Test,
Check’ the worst on the list ‘Can you hear me’ – especially when he screams into our ears!
• Guys, get creative and understand why the hell you use these words. And even if you do know how to use
only these words, at least use them properly!

Starting your speech stating ‘I don’t believe in preparing and speaking, so I speak from the heart’ or
‘It great to be here’
• I have heard some of the so called ‘senior speakers’ use this unf orgivable line. If you don’t believe in
preparing or don’t know how to prepare, please get of f the stage and stop wasting our time.

Asking people to ridiculous and unwanted things with no purpose like Please stand, stretch out your
hands, massage others, shake hands with the one to your left and right or worse, to change my place!
• Listen buddy, I am not come here to do what I do not f eel comf ortable about. Asking me to get up f rom my
place when you didn’t have a great organizing team to ensure I sit in a proper place is your problem. Now
insulting me in f ront of the whole world and asking me to change my place shows how unprof essional you are!

Giving us secrets to successful speaking without having done it yourself.

• If you have not won the Karate world championships, don’t go around preaching what it would take to be a
champ. Worse is when you yourself don’t know karate yourself and you go around teaching others. Need I
inf orm you about those clowns who are employed as ‘judges’ f or speaking contests without any credentials
themselves? And yes, just because you won a contest once in your lif e time does not mean you are now the
‘champion’.

Not know what is the difference between a speech, a sermon, a dramatic session and absolute
nonsense or worse quoting some great extinct dinosaur, statistic or over-used incident to make their
speech great.
• T here are some people whom assume kind encouraging applause of their own small circles over the years
tantamount to being a great speaker. And these people are the last survivors of the ‘Big-Dog-In-A-Small-
Backyard’. Honestly, some do not know what is a speech, what is a boring sermon, what constitutes being a
drama queen and what comes in the category of stinking verbal diarrhea. Over-used quotations, stories f rom
chicken soup f rom the soul and statistics f rom some unknown university in some country I don’t belong to
does not add any value to your speech.