PUBLIC SPEAKING FOR FUN AND PROFIT
In today’s technologically advanced world there is one skill that remains steadfastly essential to those who wish to become successful: public speaking.
What panics most people is knowing what to say, and what bores most audiences is how the speaker goes about saying it!
Andy Harrington has some suggestions on how you can be a better public speaker and radically improve your success at developing and applying this much-needed skill.
Start with a Question
Start by asking the audience a question. A question that engages them and gets them responding to you.
Start with a Question
By asking them a question and getting them to respond, you unite the audience and set yourself up as the leader.
Eye Contact Begin by looking at just one person, look at their eyes and speak to one person at a time. Then at the end of that sentence when you would naturally pause if you were reading a book, and find the next individual.
Eye Contact Have a series of one-onone conversations with the individual members of the audience and hold that gaze until you have finished that point or sentence.
Eye Contact
You’ll find yourself more able to focus your nervous energy, slow down and connect far better with your audience.
Gestures
Use your hands only if you have to like when you want to show how big that opportunity is.
Gestures
If you are speaking about an increase, show them a gesture that reflects this. Use emphatic gestures and use gestures to describe things.
Inflection and Volume It is more interesting, more exciting to listen to a presenter that has passion and feeling in their voice. Speak to your audience with belief and you will soon see they will share that belief.
Call to Action Great speakers enroll people and lead them to a decision – something actionable that they have to perform to secure their commitment to what your message is.
Call to Action One way to do this is to invite people to “click a link to find out more” if you’re speaking online or “move to the back of the room” if you’re presenting live.
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