If you are a business owner or your work requires project presentations, 90 percent of your job is communication. You must convey your company's goals and motivate your staff, and the most efficient manner to achieve it is still through the spoken word. "Public speaking is the superior tool of leadership because when you gather everyone in a room to hear the same message at the same time, you have the highest opportunity of motivating them to action," says Sims Wyeth, one of the best presenting coaches today.
Techniques to Help You Speak in Public
Feed your audience in little bites of information at a time, don’t drop all the information you may have about the topic like a bomb. Only provide the material essential to support your points on the slides and in your spoken speech. Remove everything else from the equation. When there's nothing left to take out of your speech, you've finished it.
The less you attempt to impress your audience with your knowledge, the more they will respect you for it. Also, avoid using your specialist vocabulary, which only a few people may understand. Use simple words that anyone can comprehend to communicate the messages you want to get across.
The less you attempt to impress your audience with your knowledge, the more they will respect you for it. Also, avoid using your specialist vocabulary, which only a few people may understand. Use simple words that anyone can comprehend to communicate the messages you want to get across.
Think of Your Body Language
A useful strategy is to start from the outside and work your way in. Your body language is influenced by your inner state: when you are joyful, you expand; when you are unhappy, you droop. However, the process can also be reversed. Your facial expressions, body language, and gestures send forth neurochemical and hormonal signals that affect how you feel. So here's some sound advice from the past. Stand tall and balanced on both feet. Trick your brain into feeling happy and confident, and you will start to believe it as well.
Also take the chance to insert silence in your presentation. Before opening your mouth, give a modest smile to your spectators and take 3 slow, deep breaths. Then, when you feel the calmness that it brings, begin to speak and take your time to enunciate each word calmly.
Also take the chance to insert silence in your presentation. Before opening your mouth, give a modest smile to your spectators and take 3 slow, deep breaths. Then, when you feel the calmness that it brings, begin to speak and take your time to enunciate each word calmly.
Visualize Everything
A great trick is to use visuals to communicate. By being concrete and vivid, you can imprint your ideas on the minds of your spectators. “A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush,” is more unforgettable than, “The value of controlled assets surpasses by a factor of 2 those we pursue but do not yet own.”
For those speakers who experience stage fear, there is a way to overcome it. Fear arises when you focus on potential obstacles rather than the objective you want to accomplish or the method you will utilize to get there. For example, you don't look at the net in tennis, instead you focus on hitting the ball.
For those speakers who experience stage fear, there is a way to overcome it. Fear arises when you focus on potential obstacles rather than the objective you want to accomplish or the method you will utilize to get there. For example, you don't look at the net in tennis, instead you focus on hitting the ball.
Final Thoughts
To round things out, think about your presentations as a performance with a distinct beginning and an end. For that little period of time, you give it my best. It's critical to provide your body clues for when to switch 'on' and 'off.' If you can, go to the conference room where you will be giving your presentation a few days ahead of time, and rehearse the speech like you were an actor and it was a play. Consider the 'performance' to be over once you exit the lecture theater or conference room. To unwind, do some self-care and go for a half an hour walk to relax your mind and body.
