4 simple ways to improve with your public speaking

 

1.Smile more often when you can

Smiling releases the tension in your face and puts the audience at ease while listening to you. You don't want look like someone that has a very serious face and then pretend he or she only cares about the presentation that they are making instead of the people that they are talking to. Smiling helps and improves your speech delivering, it makes you to be relaxed. You might ask me, how is it possible for me to smile when I am nervous or when my head is spinning while looking at the group of people that I am suppose to be talking to. Did you know that smiling actually helps you to deal with nervousness, I have learned this by experience. Whenever I am feeling nervous before going up on the stage or even while I am presenting, I genuinely start to smile and every time I did that I felt more comfortable and was more confident with speaking. But don't overdo your smilling! that can make your audience realise that there is something fundamentally wrong with your presentation or even with you lol.

2. Be animated 

Don't be boring with your speech or presentation always have some animation with the way you deliver it. For an example you can increase your tone of voice on certain important points and lower your voice tone while expressing the rest. People have a very short attention span these days. The last thing you want is people nodding of to sleep and yawning while you are delivering the speech or presentation. These things will seriously effect you as the presenter, it is sending you the message that people are not interested and that you are boring. We want to change that by being animated. You can also choose to walk towards the audience to prove a point or use hand gestures more often. You can watch a child all day long and not get bored, they are unpredictable ! 

3. Interaction 

Have an interaction with the audience that you are speaking to or making a presentation. Interaction makes the audience to be more in alert and they pay more attention. For an example you can ask them questions regarding the presentation and reward them with small gifts. Ask hard questions so that you can generate a buzz in the audience. But this is really depended on the group that you are speaking to. You can't be doing this at a funeral service, common sense is the main rule of thumb when it comes to interaction with your audience. Don't ask questions that you don't know the answer to, because if nobody in the audience knows then you are serious trouble.

4. Practice 

You have to practice doing the presentation or the speech as many times as you can. While practising always visualise who your people are and act as if you are speaking to them live. Without practise you are sure to makes mistakes unless you are a pro. The pro's make mistake but you won't see it since it is polished.