Public Speaking Tips- A leader's Primary skill

Public speaking perhaps is the best Communication intervention that could lead to the birth of a leader.While the leaders public relation skill and private effective communication helps begin his journey towards a leadership stardom , It is the public speaking skill that would make anyone , let it be a politician , soilder, terrorist, businessperson, or a religious head or Spiritual Master, an effective leader who could lead others to his philosophy and end.In this context it would be ineteresting to know some of the great leaders who made their indelible impression in public speaking.

I give below an excerepts from the Book "Successful Methods of Public Speaking" by Grenville Kleiser that would prove this point.

"MEN WHO HAVE MADE HISTORY IN PUBLIC SPEAKING—AND THEIR METHODS
The great orators of the world did not regard eloquence as simply an endowment of nature, but applied themselves diligently to cultivating their powers of expression. In many cases there was unusual natural ability, but such men knew that regular study and practise were essential to success in this coveted art.
The oration can be traced back to Hebrew literature. In the first chapter of Deuteronomy we find Moses' speech in the end of the fortieth year, briefly rehearsing the story of God's promise, and of God's anger for their incredulity and disobedience.




The four orations in Deuteronomy, by Moses, are highly commended for their tenderness, sublimity and passionate appeal. You can advantageously read them aloud.
The oration of Pericles over the graves of those who fell in the Peloponnesian War, is said to have been the first Athenian oration designed for the public.
The agitated political times and the people's intense desire for learning combined to favor the development of oratory in ancient Greece. Questions of great moment had to be discust and serious problems solved. As the orator gradually became the most powerful influence in the State, the art of oratory was more and more recognized as the supreme accomplishment of the educated man."
We would see some of them in my subsequent posts.