Ethics in Public Speaking
Key Takeaways
- All eight of the principles espoused in the NCA
Credo for Ethical Communication can be applied to public speaking. Some
of the principles relate more to the speaker's role in communication,
while others relate to both the speaker's and the audience's role in
public speech.
- When preparing a speech, it is important to think
about the ethics of public speaking from the beginning. When a speaker
sets out to be ethical in his or her speech from the beginning, arriving
at ethical speech is much easier.