Make an impact on your community by expressing its needs and suggesting solutions for meeting those needs. The best way to get this information across to the community and the elected officials is through public speaking in town meetings and rallies. If you are inclined to run for a political office to make a difference in your world, public speaking is a vital skill to possess.
Expressing yourself with clear concise statements empowers you in negotiating situations. You will have more confidence going into the negotiation due to your speaking skills. Your counter-offers will be taken more seriously when you sound knowledgeable and have a polished approach to get the desired outcome.
Feelings of concern, empathy, frustration and disappointment with others are more strongly communicated when using public speaking skills face to face. Often emotions written on paper are not as strong as when they are spoken with a human voice emphasizing the tone and intensity the speaker wants to convey. The speaker sees how the audience is responding and if they understand the feeling he wants to get across. If the audience is not responding in the desired way, the speaker changes his approach to verbalize the emotion. Written communication cannot be evaluated and revised this quickly for the desired response.
Coaches, parents and business leaders all use public speaking skills to motivate others to work toward goals. Communicating mission statements, objectives and goals through the spoken word is very powerful. The human voice provides a sense of passion, confidence, determination and belief in the ability to achieve the goal that the written word cannot match.