#publicspeech

Public speaking is the communication process of delivering information to an audience. It is usually done before a broad audience.

But, due to public speaking fear most of the people can’t able to express themselves clearly or get stopped.

Check these 10 best techniques to boost your public speaking skills:

1. Gain clear knowledge about the topic: Without having details and precise knowledge about the topic that you will discuss; you will not be able to do that. Always try to have a great sense of humor.

2. Make an appropriate plan and structure: Draw a framework for your speech.

3. Remember "first impression is the long last impression": Make sure to grab the audience's attention in the first 30 seconds.

4. Maintain eye contact: Don't be shy, the whole audience is watching you and never lose that connection.

5. Avoid reading your speech: Usually, the audience will wonder when speaking in public by reading your pre-written speech. Keep a short note of important information.

6. Be comfortable with the environment: Be comfortable and just realize that you hold the tremendous power of influence and use this power responsibly.

7. Follow the manner while speaking: Don't raise your voice so loud or too short that the audience becomes annoyed. Control your hand gestures according to your saying and follow the other manners of speaking.

8. Evaluate your performance: Post evaluation of your speech will help you to recover your inefficiency by identifying the areas you need to improve.

9. Keep practicing: Practice makes perfect! So, Practice again and again.

10. Join class or workshop on "public speaking": Now a days, Online courses on public speaking are being offered. You could get some valuable information and practicing opportunity for the courses and workshops.

Bottom Line

Whenever you get a chance to give a speech in public, grab the offer. Keep practicing to reduce public speaking fear.

You may not give presentations regularly in front of a group (like as your duty in the job). But you should have public speaking skills to make a speech in a club event/meeting to inspire a group of volunteers at a charity event or a friend's wedding.

Check out this 5 powerful tips to improve your public speaking skills:

1. Control your voice

For a public speaker , voice is the most important tool. Improve your voice simply by learning to breathe fully and deeply from your diaphragm/belly breathing. It is essential for accessing your most powerful voice.

2. Improve body language for public speaking

Body language is the way of communication without using words. Facial expressions, gestures, and movements are part of that.

Make sure that you stand straight and tall while delivering a speech in public.

3. Follow the delivery tips

In public speaking, delivery is the heart. Good voice and good body language will be nothing if your audience can't pursue what you are saying, and thus your message gets lost. Some tips for good delivery skills:

Read more: 7 Tips To Making An Unforgettable Public Speech

4. Maintain Relation with the audience

You need to engage your audience for successful public speaking. For this you should:

Recognize your audience

Do it as soon as you take your place/stage. It will make you s like a "real" person and allow a conversational sound.

Make eye contact

Try to make eye contact with each member of the audience if possible. You have to make sure that your audience will feel like you are speaking directly to them and giving importance to their thoughts. Check out more:

5. Receive feedback and evaluate your public speaking performance

Still, you may have inefficiency in some areas. Then make a post evaluation of your every speech in public speaking by watching the event's recording or receiving feedback.

Bottom line

Fear of public speaking is the main obstacle to improving public speaking skills. Improving new public speaking skills can help you to remove/reduce the fear.

A boring speech of only five minutes feels out like one hour. Again, if you become anxious while speaking in public, the speech will become more annoying to the audience/ listeners.

So, follow the 7 steps to calm your nerves and help you deliver an effective, and unforgettable speech:

1. Deliver speech with performance:

Actually, performance is much more than the speech. It's tension, inflection, resolution, gesture, and suspense.

On the other hand, a speech is nothing but primarily about the words that you speak. Just observe a man or woman play, and you'll understand that matter quickly.

2. Drive your audience with eye contact:

Eye contact has a significant influence in speaking to a crowd to make a successful speech. So use the power of eye contact.

Bill Clinton was a master of eye contact. You can follow him, and you'll see the master at work.

3. Don't hide yourself behind the speech dice:

Speech dice is called as a lectern. It has a structure built to conceal, knocking knees and shaking hands.

But it is a barrier between you and your audience. You must step out from behind it and move around the space that you have been given.

4. Control your gesture:

Please don't be gawk. You will look like a lamb to your audience, and your message will not be apparent to them as they perceive that you have a lack of confidence.

Just stand up straight, keep your shoulders back, and never let them see if you may sweat. Always project confidence.

5. Tell a story or two:

You can start off a public speaking with a story or two if needed. A story creates images that in the audience's heads as you spin your yarn. It is the power of storytelling.

7. Tell about your knowing and thinking:

Energy and authenticity come from passion, and your audience cares about it. It would help if you were deposited and engaged with your topic.

It would help if you chose a subject that is important for you to invest your energy in writing and to deliver a speech in public.

Bottom Line

In the end, I advise you to be an expert on the subject. Listen, if you are invited to speak, it means you are the go-to person in your field.

Then I hope my steps will work out to deliver an unforgettable speech.