The Art of Public Speaking

You all have listened to several public speeches in your life. Did you ever delivered one yourself?

It is a huge difference between criticising a bad delivered speech and being in charge to deliver it.

What are the crucial points that make all the difference between a bad speech, an average speech and a memorable speech that moves thousands of people?

First of all the speaker is authentic. Great speakers are showing emotions, hassles, joy, accomplishments and the solutions to stepping up. Some are naturally gifted. The risk lies in doing it professionally as you might end up getting bored telling the same over and over again. You still enjoy it, you loose the pizzazz.

Having  pizzazz in every speech is what a great speaker set apart from an average.

You could see the disappointment of the masses when Susan Boyle performed the second time the same song and missed out to show it. People fall in love with her cheeky grin and the way she performed from her heart the first time.

The art of public speaking lies in mingling tips on public speaking, with public speaking techniques and your personality.

All together applied to a great topic you are an expert in is helping you showing your pizzazz any time you are giving a speech. Piece after piece you have to connect the important tips, techniques and your personality till you get the whole picture.

It is about your perception and creativity to connect the premade pieces with your experiences and knowledge.

Effective public speaking is the result of great preparation.

Effective preparation includes mastering the topic you are talking about.

With that aim in mind you learn all the tiny little details others overlook. Reading lots of books, doing researches in the internet and learning live is part of mastering any skill. You also have to apply the learned as often as possible. You are developing a perspective of that topic which is crucial when you want to become an expert.

Preparation includes knowing YOU.

Yes, I know that is the most challenging part of it. This implicates that you know what your body is telling while you are speaking, the range of your voice and how to play with it, how moving influences you when you are speaking, how to breathe properly, which tools you need to bring your message across and courage to show YOU ……

A high self-esteem as it is the root for confident public speaking.

Excellent preparation also encompasses knowing your audience.

This leads to a huge relieve when preparing a speech. You can tailor your speech to the needs of your audience. That way you are facilitating to reach your goal. You can talk to an interested audience willing to understand your message. Believe me that is the greatest pleasure to talk to an interested audience.

Knowing that you can fulfil the audience demands is raising your self-esteem and enjoying to be in the lime light.

Using their questions to improve your knowledge and expertise helps you serving them better and better each time you connect to them. All this questions are helping you to tailor your research and development to the needs of your target audience. Each time you fulfil that need your expertise is getting stronger.

This is boosting your self-esteem to the next level.

Public speaking fear vanishes when you are well prepared.

Preparing well when you are afraid of public speaking means you have to know yourself better before preparing a speech.

This encloses to know how to deal with nervousness and how to change your thinking and acting to prevent creating fear. You have to really look into the details to find your personal solution.

Knowing you have mastered the topic is one part to reduce this fear.

Learning some tricks to master developing a great speech outline is supporting your self-esteem. Start learning writing speeches. When you understand how they are build up you develop self-esteem.

Self-esteem is the cure for fear.

What really helps is letting go of the fear.

Finding your equipoise is a great way to do it. The fear is saved in your nerves and muscles. You can spot anxious people easily by their posture as it is stiff and their movements are chiselled.

While you are working to let go of this information in your tissues your poise and face expression changes according to your way to think and act differently. When the fear is outdated like an old crushed paper you can easily let it go.

Your face is showing more clarity and vibrancy so you are looking younger. Your movements will get smoother and you gain flexibility. You are closer to the equipoise of your body.

Your breathing gets deeper and this helps you releasing the fear.

Excellent preparation also includes playing with the language.

Effective public speaking includes interest in the language itself. Finding the right words is challenging and fun too. You facilitate that by reading and listening to various topics and authors and speakers. A good synonym dictionary and an etymologic dictionary are helping you to spice up your wording.

Being able to play with the words like with balls bouncing and juggling them is what lets you enjoy public speaking.

Doing the preparation part is what counts.

That is just a scope what is necessary to master the art of public speaking. I am going more into the details in my work as I know the result is higher when tailored to the speakers needs. General tips help a bit give you some ideas to start with.

Mastering a skill includes tailoring it to your own personality, capabilities and needs.

Have fun doing the part of preparation and mastering and soon you will recognise results.

Larissa Glueck

photos: sxc.hu

photographers: balls: chidsey; paper: japur; notepad, books: nkzs; limelight: hberends; puzzle. kisa12; microphone: nighthawk7