Instead, I would like to call myself an experienced person in the world of presentation, public speaking and communication.
In this article, I would like to share with you guys what I think are the 5 most important Public Speaking Tips. You can take these tips to improve your Public Speaking ability. Trust me when I tell you that Public Speaking skills is crucially important and can actually lead you to the peak of your life especially if your goal is to become a leader in any of your life pursuit.
1. Positive Mental Attitude
Personally, Ive never heard or seen anyone die of public speaking. So, there is nothing to be afraid of public speaking. Its easier said than done, right? It truly is, yet such fear can really be overcome.
3. Eye contact
Eye contact is usually used by professional public speakers to attract the audience attention. In general, an audience participant focuses on listening to the speaker only when they realize that the speaker speaks to them or that the speaker pays attention to them. How does the participant know that? My experience has taught me that eye contact is the means of such knowledge.
Maintaining a natural and good eye contact with audience is crucially important because it somehow determines the degree of attention the audience members give to us the speakers. Personally, I almost always maintain a close eye contact with the people who listen to me and those who seem not to be focusing on my speech. I dont have to say their name or point to them to listen to me because my eye contact says it all. Isnt that cool?
Initially, I was so scared at looking into peoples eyes. I remember I took my glasses off during a classroom presentation because I was not able to undergo the overwhelming pressure of the 20-plus pairs of eyes looking at me. However, thanks to the countless speech delivery practices that I have done for years, I today dont feel the pressure anymore every time I am on the stage. I just feel at ease.
How to develop powerful eye contact
You can try the following tips:
a. Practice looking into your eyes in the mirror and maintaining the contact for some time (two or three minutes) every day.
b. Practice looking into peoples eyes when you are in conversation in them. I know its difficult especially if you come from any country like Cambodia whose societal culture doesnt promote people looking straight into other peoples eyes. You can start with people that you know well before strangers.
4. Body language
Body language is also one of the most essential elements in speech delivery. Effective use of body language makes the speech lively and active while ineffective use of body language could pose great threat or embarrassment to the audience members. For example, the use of middle finger in North America is offensive. The showing of folding fist could mean either anger or power.
Body language is a bit complicated if one wants to be perfect in it. Yet, its worthwhile to learn to use it effectively or perfectly if possible because its generally believed that body language conveys much more message than words and tones in any communication scenario. speaking events
