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PUBLIC SPEAKING

Here are some proven tips on how to control your butterflies and give better presentations:

Know your material. Pick a topic Practice. Rehearse out loud with all
you are interested in. Know more equipment you plan on using. Work
about it than you include in your to control filler words; Practice,
speech. Use humour, personal pause and breathe. Practice with a
stories and conversational timer and allow time for the
language unexpected.
easily forget what to say.

Know the audience. Greet some of Know the room. Arrive early, walk
the audience members as they around the speaking area and
practice using the microphone and
group of friends than to strangers. any visual aids.

Relax. Begin by addressing the Visualize yourself giving your


audience. It buys you time and speech. Imagine yourself speaking
calms your nerves. Pause, smile and in loud, clear and confident voice.
count to three before saying Visualize the audience clapping it
anything. Transform nervous will boost your confidence.
energy into enthusiasm.

Realize that people want you to Concentrate on the message not


succeed. Audiences want you to be the medium. Focus your attention
interesting, stimulating, informative away from your own anxieties and
concentrate on your message and
you. your audience.

Create a contingency plan. What Share an interesting and


if the PowerPoint fails, the light emotional story. Share a genuine
goes off, or your openings falls flat. story and let your emotions flow. This
Be prepared for the worst and you is sure to connect with the audience.

Pause. Pause for 10 seconds (2-3 Share one thing no one knows. Even

lost your context) and resume your


speech with confidence. This will
give you bonus points and get

Focus on earning attention. Now let's look at a few things to immediately start doing. Instead of playing
the "turn off your mobile devices" game, because no one will (and you'll just look stodgy), focus on earning
their complete attention. Make your presentation so interesting, so entertaining, and so inspiring that

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