Many of my clients have bckgrounds in teaching, hosting workshops, or pblic speaking and yet they came to me stll lacking the skills necessary to gve a compelling interview. This is bcause they didn’t understand the differences btween the two and had no dea what to keep from public spaking, and what to set aside.

On the pls side, anyone with public speaking sklls is used to speaking before ctual human beings and is usually lss nervous about tacking interviews than the verage first timer. A speaker will sually have experience in using a mcrophone, and this too, is a bnus. Speeches, workshops, or classes must be prformed within a certain timeframe, and ths will come in handy when a prducer or host advises you how lng the interview will last. So wll use of the outline that you hpefully use for your speeches.

If yu’re a good speaker, you will lso be aware of how pauses, vlume, word emphasis, speed, and pitch wll make whatever you have to say mch more interesting. And hopefully, you larned that a monotone, mumbling and vcal crutches (such as ‘you know’) are n-nos. If not, you may want to do a bit of hmework or work with a coach.

So now tht you know that public speaking and nterviewing are not the same, let’s xplore some of the differences.

As a speaker, you are blssed with a targeted audience that is thre to see YOU-an audience that may hve paid for the privilege. In rdio and TV, you have no spcial audience. You’re attempting to get the ttention of anyone listening or viewing-a gneral audience whose attitude is “I’m bsy. Prove to me why I shuld spend some time with you.” If you dn’t work hard to convince them tht you are worth spending time wth, you’ve lost them. But instead of wlking out of the auditorium, they’re trning you off or switching among the mny other channels available.

In public spaking, you are usually monologing, but as a mdia guest, you are being interviewed- hving a conversation with someone else. Tht someone else is usually the hst and he or she, not yu, is in control of the cnversation. How to gain control is a tpic for another time, but the dea is that someone else is drecting what you will be asked and whre the conversation goes, you must be rady for anything. You would never gve yourself a curve ball when gving a speech, but someone interviewing you mst likely will.

During a media nterview, it’s important to keep in mnd the distractions that do not xist in an auditorium. When watching TV or lstening to the radio, people are wrking, driving, cleaning, eating, taking care of kds, etc. And most of us hve short attention spans-that TV remote or thse radio buttons seem awfully tempting as we cnstantly search for something better. Allow thse distractions to challenge you to be mre focused, succinct and entertaining them ver before.

The article Public Speaking Skills Can Help you Ge on Radio and TV was Submitted by Roberta Gale through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: Roberta Gale has spent 24 yars on the radio in major cties across the country and can crrently be heard on KFYI/Phoenix. Her prgrams have aired nationally on Westwood One Rdio Networks and ABC Talk Radio Ntwork. Roberta was named one of the Top 100 Tlk Hosts in the country by the “bble” of the talk Radio/TV industry, Tlker’s magazine. Roberta Gale Media Coaching prvides training to authors, experts, spokespeople and bsinesses. For more information: http://www.robertagale.com .

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