Nowadays public speaking is a very required skill, if we have public speaking skills so our chances of selection for many jobs would be increased. Public speaking can be a very good strength for us.
Recently I attend a course in public speaking so here I am going to share some great tricks of Public Speaking and I also suggest you to read this short course for your Success & Growth in public speaking.
Public Speaking
Part-1
Discover the speaker in you
In this lesson, we will learn..How to become a better public speaker?
How to overcome barriers to public speaking?
Tips and tools to help improve your public speaking?
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| Discover the speaker in you |
It doesn't matter what is your profession. You felt its requirement like in our school, college, or any party, seminar, weddings and meeting.
Our biggest problem is we might be thinking that people will judge us? Through which the fear of public speaking came and we couldn't able to overcome it in starting.
I wanted to learn public speaking. I was very shy. But after this course, I feel a lot of change in me. Now I can talk according to the audience. Now how will I react with people? seriously or funny depending on my audience.
it is not necessary to be extrovert for better public speaking.
Important key of public speaking
The most important thing for public spanking is preparation. .Preparation will focus on what, when, and why, we are speaking? Through it you will be familiar with your presentation. It will also help you to gain your confidence. Exercise of our vocal cord and be positive during presentation is also important.
So now What should be the first thing we need to figure out?
let's go in the following content for this answer.
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Public Speaking
Part-2
Define the objective of your speech
In this lesson, we will learnHow to prepare a presentation?
Key information needed for effective preparation.
Before preparing our presentation. Think first about who is our audience.
They may be manager, students, teacher, whenever you will found that there is a lot of things will clear in your mind that what you should speak in your presentation.
For our best presentation keep in mind that who? how? when? what? and why? Answer these questions and prepare our presentation.
Let's start with the first question "who?"
Who are you going to bespeak into?
Will it be a group of 200 people or 20 people or only 5 people. According to the size of the audience the way you express your content will be different. You should also ask yourself how familiar my audience with my content. are they beginners or experts?
By determining the demographic you will be able to adjust your vocabulary accordingly.
The second question is "how?"
How will your presentation be made?
will it be face to face remote or online live or prerecorded you must also consider what equipment you will have at disposal. will you have a microphone? Depending on all these your hand gestures and body language matters.
The third question is "when?"
When do I have to give this presentation, more importantly, how long does the presentation have to be will it be 2 hour, 1 hour, or 5 minutes.
By all this questions answer you can identify how much time you have your preparation?
The next question is "what?"
What are you going to talk about exactly? it might sound obvious but it's important to be able to prepare well-structured speech its means not getting sidetracked on details that are not relevant.
Finally, The most important question is "why?"
why you have been asked to give this presentation what makes you the best person for the job are you an expert on the subject? do you have any experience to share? The point is you need to know that why you were there. Is it to inform teach or inspire your audience? To write all this information down your ideas and plans. After clearing our "why" we will prepare our presentation in the right direction.
Here are the tricks for getting started.
Make two columns first is of before the presentation and another one is after the presentation.
Under the before column, you can write down everything that you think your audience knows before the presentation. In the after column know everything that you want your audience to retain from your presentation from here bridge the after and before by creating a middle column this will be the content of your presentation. Try it out for yourself.
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Public Speaking
Part-3
Master your body language
In this lesson, we will learn
Why body language is important?
How posture gesture and facial expression can improve your presentation?
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So let's get started
Giving your presentation for speech your content is extremely important. But a lot of people forget about their body language. Body language is non-verbal communication. The body also sends messages to the audience. The position of your body, the spaces between your legs, your arms movements, and your facial expressions are all parts of it.
Let's look at some ways through which we can improve our body language.
Standing and speaking in front of the audience can prove physically difficult especially if you are not used to it. Your leg should be strong but you can still move and can make gestures with your hand properly. Try to use the full stage, walk on the stage. While changing the topic move the other side of the stage.
Now how about managing gestures?
In Good gestures our Palm of the hand should be towards the audience. Your arms should be with full rounded gestures. Keep your arms freely.
Things not to do.
Don't fold your arms. Don't lead on the table. Don't put your hand back.
Don't cover your face with your hand gestures. Don't click your pen again and again and distract your audience.
Now who should you look at?
Don't look at any one person through which other audiences will fill disconnect from you. Instead include your audience. Last but not least remember to smile.
Smile with your mouth but also with your eyes. If your eyes will not be smile your smile will be forced. You can't do it directly. You have to do practice a lot for your body language. Practice it put your knowledge into use.
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Public Speaking
Part-4
Eliminate verbal tics
In this lesson, we will learn
How to become aware of verbal tics?
How to minimize verbal tics?
When speaking in public? Language is all about what you say but also how you say it. It's important to be aware of linguistic tics. Don't do too much Aaaaa, hmmm in our conversation.
In general the better you prepare your content the more your tics will disappear. Preparation also helps to overcome your stress and uncertainty. Through practice, we can eliminator bad verbal tics?
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Public Speaking
Part-5
Deliver a professional presentation
In this lesson, we will learn
How to manage stress and nerves when giving a presentation?
The benefits of elocution and articulation lesson exercises?
How to stay calm if you make a mistake during a presentation?
So let's get started.
The biggest cause of our fear is our nerve and stress. If you thought that situation is very horrible. So the first thing which you have to remember that stress is very good for your presentation. They give energy to you to speak in public. Don't try to eliminate your stress because it gives an advantage to you in your public speaking.
Try to stretch your body before presentation and warm your vocal through vocal exercises. Remember about the first sentence before going to stage.
Another very common stress symptoms is our dry mouth. Don't forget to hydrate our body and if possible bottle should be nearer to stage whenever you feel dry mouth so you can drink water. Don't do this process again and again. Most of the focus should be on your presentation.
Don't forget to occupy a place on stage. And try to walk on stage during the presentation.
Use a microphone when needed. In a small room try to speak without a microphone with loudly speaking. Your voice should be audible for all of the audience.
Memory lapses are a very common problem during a professional presentation. When you would suffer from memory lapse. The audience will not wait for you. They are also human beings like you. At that time try to take a deep breath and tell whatever which is related to our presentation. The prevention of this problem is to focus on the preparation of our presentation.
During the presentation look into the audience. Speak loudly and clearly.
And your presentation should be in the time limit. Faith on yourself you are the right person for this job.
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