There’s nothing new about leadership and public speaking, in fact, when you think about leadership, you almost always think about a leader talking to the crowds.
If you’re on your way to make a presentation, you could benefit from the next 4 tips to improve your public speaking.
1. You have to know what you are talking about
This might seem “obvious” but it isn’t. How many times have you been in a presentation where the speaker barely knows the facts of the subject he’s talking about? I’ve been more than once. So, if you’re talking about planes you should know every posible thing about planes, no matter what question someone throw at you, you have to know the answer, or at least to know where you can point them to. You to prepare yourself to that level of knowledge of your topic. If you prepare in a concious and professional way, at some point you’ll have that “feeling”. That is called confidence.
To build your confidence you should practice and prepare BEFORE the presentation as much as you can and need. We’re all different so you have to figure out how much preparation and rehearsal you need for yourself. But you have to do it, until the point you know you’re there.
2. Arrive Early and Greet Your Attendees
Arriving early will help you stay calmed before the presentation, and greeting people as they come around can help you get a better understanding of their needs and you can incorporate some elements of that into your presentation. Greeting the audience as they come is a way to create a better emotional environment for your presentation.
3. If you Doubt STOP
Sometimes even the most prepared speakers have “blanks”. If you feel like that, don’t say anything. There’s nothing more stressful for you and the audience than a speaker who sounds doubtful with lots of uhs and ums. If you find yourself there, stop and repeat your last sentence as if to add importance. Change all the uhs and ums for silence, that will certainly help, and will get you going again.
4. Use Your Body
A good presentation “flows”, and to flow you need to use your body. Good communication is not only words, but gestures and body movement. Get the most out of your movements. One of the hallmarks of good communicators is that they use their entire body in communication.
Summary
1. Prepare Thoroughly, rehearse and study your subject.
2. Arrive Early And Greet your audience.
3. If a blank happens, go back to your last sentence and keep going from there.
4. You are a communicator, use your body.
BONUS TIP: Do as many presentations as you can practice will make you a master.
I hope these tips help you to become a better public speaker. Meanwhile, be alert, Be A Leader 
Leadership
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Practice makes perfect presentations, whiskey helps as well. Tried & proven.
GREAT TIPS, THEY ARE VERY TIMING BECAUSE i’M GOING TO REPORT IN ONE OF MY MASTERAL SUBJECT.
‘Practice will make you a master’ – this statement is one of the best tips in public speaking. Practice helps to share all your thoughts, sentences to your audience in an easy way without any difficulties. Even you forget what you had to say, you find another way to do your best and everything will be excellent with your presentation.
Amity, thanks for the advice.
Mary Joy, Good luck with your report. And prepare your presentation as thoroughly as you can. Rehearse until you can say the words without thinking much, think of it as a play!
Nasiba, you totally got the point!!! I couldn’t have said it better.
Thanks for your comments my friends.
– Ken
Dear Ken,
I have been subcribing to your website and has been following it regularly. I must say it was and is very usefull for me personaly. Appreciate it very much!
I just want to share with you and readers, a couple of years ago I was so afraid to do public speaking. As much as I want to do it, I just don’t have the confident. My friend invited me to joint a Toastmasters Club in Johor Bahru City, Malaysia. There I find it one of the best platform to practice to speak before the audience and to overcome my fear of public speaking.
Thanks for the sharing and keep writing and I will keep reading!
Liza Alip
Johor Bahru, West Malaysia
“chance favors the prepared mind “
Practice makes perfect.Is good to be vocal,outspoken and intellegent for a good presentation.
Thanks for those tips.
The tips are inspiring.Keep doing the good work.
Practice makes perfect.Is good to be vocal,outspoken and intellegent for a good presentation. Thanks for the sharing and keep writing and I will keep reading
Thanks for those tips.
According to Plato, “win the heart of men with your words”.The art and science of speaking is very fascinating.These tips were very inspiring.well done!!!!
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