How to use Chat GPT to improve your public speaking

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Written By Liam Sandford

Have you used Chat GPT yet? What did you use it for?

With all the noise about Chat GPT in the past few months, have you wondered how you can use it to improve your public speaking?

This week I thought I would test it out and see what it comes back with. I didn’t have a presentation to deliver, but I was thinking about the core fundamentals of public speaking that you need to deliver effectively every time.

For me this consists of:

  • An engaging open

  • Key stories you can relate back to the topic

  • Create a moment for the audience — something memorable

  • A call to action

So how should you use Chat GPT to help improve your public speaking?

Provide the right context

When it comes to using chat GPT you need to provide enough context. As with anything, rubbish in creates rubbish out. Your inputs need to be good to generate high quality outputs.

Make your questions specific:

Give Chat GPT the basis of the information. Without being specific you will get generic responses back that will be unhelpful.

As a result of this question, I was given some examples that would be relevant to the context of university students. These examples might be the thing that lands the key messages to the audience.

Remember, rubbish in = rubbish out.

Specific content

You might want to use Chat GPT to refine specific pieces of your presentation, such as your opening, or call to action. Be specific in what you are asking — make it easy for the AI to give you a useful response.

Chat GPT Public Speaking

What you get back from the AI chat should not be exactly what you use. Remember that you are talking to a computer — you can use it to your advantage, but don’t use it without your insight too. Tweak, edit, refine what you get back. Use it to make better what you already have rather than as a tool to copy and paste from. This way you can use it as your virtual assistant.

Actionable takeaways

  • You can use Chat GPT as your virtual assistant to help refine your ideas or give you new ways of presenting an idea.

  • Use it to ask for context specific examples that will help you to make your message resonate with your audience.

  • If using Chat GPT, give it context — without you will get generic responses back that will not necessarily be relevant.

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