Being a public speaker
Having a good speaking skills and connection with the listeners is a gift.
Yes! All of us can speak but not all people can communicate well and at the same time someone who shares reliable knowledge to the listeners.
Can we avoid the anxiety in public speaking?
The answer is?
It’s either you can do it or you cannot do it.
Because everything is up to you and if you are willing to speak up and share your knowledge to everyone then you can survive public speaking.
You can create a good progress and improvements to yourself.
But
If you are not interested to overcome your anxiety in public speaking and you are not doing a changes or even a step to make a progress then you cannot be a good public speaker.
The good news is through preparation and practice you will become an effective public speaker.
You will slowly overcome having less confidence in front, nervousness and anxiety.
Having a good public speaking skills are important in our daily lives though you have not noticed it.
Imagine someone from your family may ask you to speak in from during family gathering, give a eulogy for a loved one, or asked to make a speech for the school completions.
Those are already in a form of public speaking.
Just simple actions that you can do in order to improve your skills in public speaking.
You have not noticed it but you are doing some of those things already because human as we are we want to be presentable first especially when standing in front of the public.
Here are the tips you can follow to improve your public speaking skills
First, cope with nerves
Try to observed speakers on how they overcome on messing up during their speaks.
Just remember when you are task to speak in front of other people avoid thinking or envisioning that something might go wrong and you will messed up.
Mental Block?
A situation where at first you are very confiedent but suddenly messed up everything?
He reason for that is your nervousness.
A person who is nervous and imagines that he might forget the line that need to be speak can literally forget every point.
You musta avoid thinking so many things while you are in front, just focus on you topic that is need to shared.
Build up your mind to finished your presentation smoothly. You are the one who will messed up your yourself if you keep building scenarios or possibilities in your mind.
Composed yourself and be confident all the time.
Second, Watch recording of your speeches and practice
If it is possible try to record your own presentation and speeches
With that you can watch it and try to observed yourself where you can improve the areas that did not go well.
Look at you verbal stalls and body language.
Notice how much “uhm, or like” and even dead air.
The way you sway, lean or even stand. Is it fine? Or it look awkward?
Pay attention on the things where you will look natural and not forced.
Make sure that you are comfortable.
And practice you spills.
Third, engage with the audience
This is also very important when you are delivering information in front of the large audience.
You need to keep the listeners interested with your presentation.
How are you going to do that?
Just simply be interactive.
Encourage and ask questions which targets individual or group.
Pay attention on how you deliver your speech or presentation. Avoid using words that will reduce your power as the speaker. You need to show them that this idea is good and everyone can achieved it.
Instead of saying to the audience that “ it is good but I am not sure if I can do it”.
The listener prefers someone who speaks well, clear and précised.
So do not speak so fats because your listeners might not get it. Just try to slow down.
Just do not forget to stay connected with the audience and use examples that everyone can relate.
Use words that met the level of familliarity of someone.
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