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Tips For Public Speaking

The document provides 10 tips for improving public speaking and presentation skills. The tips include preparing thoroughly by practicing and getting feedback, knowing your audience and tailoring your message to them, organizing your material effectively to achieve your purpose, using your voice and hands well while avoiding nervous gestures, grabbing attention at the beginning and closing strongly, and using humor, stories, and audiovisual aids to engage audiences. The overarching message is that public speaking requires preparation, understanding your listeners, and presenting your message in an organized, engaging manner.

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Tips For Public Speaking

The document provides 10 tips for improving public speaking and presentation skills. The tips include preparing thoroughly by practicing and getting feedback, knowing your audience and tailoring your message to them, organizing your material effectively to achieve your purpose, using your voice and hands well while avoiding nervous gestures, grabbing attention at the beginning and closing strongly, and using humor, stories, and audiovisual aids to engage audiences. The overarching message is that public speaking requires preparation, understanding your listeners, and presenting your message in an organized, engaging manner.

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  • Introduction to Public Speaking Tips
  • Nervousness Is Normal
  • Know Your Audience
  • Organize Your Material
  • Adapt to Feedback
  • Let Your Personality Shine
  • Use Humor and Stories
  • Use Your Voice and Gestures
  • Avoid Reading, Use Outlines
  • Use Audio-Visual Aids Wisely
  • Grab Attention and End Dynamically

TIPS FOR PUBLIC

SPEAKING/PRESENTATION
SKILLS

Subarna Karmacharya
10 TIPS FOR PUBLIC SPEAKING:
1. Nervousness Is Normal. Practice and Prepare!
• All people feel some physiological reactions like
pounding hearts and trembling hands.
• Do not associate these feelings with the sense that
you will perform poorly or make a fool of yourself.

• The best way to overcome anxiety is to prepare,


prepare, and prepare some more.
• Take the time to go over your notes several times.
Once you have become comfortable with the
material, practice a lot.
• Videotape yourself, or get a friend to critique your
performance.
2. Know Your Audience.
Your Speech Is About Them, Not You.
• Before you begin to craft your
message, consider who the
message is intended for.
• Learn as much about your listeners
as you can. This will help you
determine your choice of words,
level of information, organization
pattern, and motivational statement
3. Organize Your Material in the Most
Effective Manner to Attain Your Purpose.
• Create the framework for your speech. Write
down the topic, general purpose, specific
purpose, central idea, and main points. Make
sure to grab the audience’s attention in the
first 30 seconds.
4. Watch for Feedback and Adapt to It.
• Keep the focus on the audience. Gauge their
reactions, adjust your message, and stay
flexible. Delivering a recorded speech you
lose the attention of or confuse even the most
devoted listeners.
5. Let Your Personality Come Through.

• Be yourself, don’t become a talking head—in any


type of communication. You will establish better
credibility if your personality shines through, and
your audience will trust what you have to say if
they can see you as a real person.
6. Use Humor, Tell Stories, and Use Effective Language.
• Inject a funny story / narration in your presentation,
and you will certainly grab your audience’s attention.
• Audiences generally like a personal touch in a
speech. A story can provide that.
7. Don’t Read Unless You Have to. Work from
an Outline.
• Reading from a script or slide fractures the inter-
personal connection.
• By maintaining eye contact with the audience, you
keep the focus on yourself and your message.
• A brief outline can serve to jog your memory and
keep you on track.
8. Use Your Voice and Hands Effectively. Omit
Nervous Gestures.
• Nonverbal communication carries most of the
message.
• Good delivery does not call attention to itself, but
instead conveys the speaker’s ideas clearly and
without distraction.
9. Grab Attention at the Beginning, and Close
with a Dynamic End.
• Do you enjoy hearing a speech start with
“Today I’m going to talk to you about X”?
Most people don’t. Instead, use a surprising
fact, an interesting story, or concise quotation.
• Conclude your speech with a summary and a
strong statement that your audience is sure to
remember.
10. Use Audio-visual Aids Wisely.
• Too many can break the direct connection to
the audience, so use them carefully. They
should enhance or clarify your content, or
capture and maintain your audience’s
attention.

TIPS FOR PUBLIC SPEAKING/PRESENTATION SKILLS Subarna Karmacharya
10 TIPS FOR PUBLIC SPEAKING: 1. Nervousness Is Normal. Practice and Prepare! • All people feel some physiological reactions l
2. Know Your Audience. Your Speech Is About Them, Not You. • Before you begin to craft your message, consider who the mess
3. Organize Your Material in the Most Effective Manner to Attain Your Purpose. • Create the framework for your speech. Write
5. Let Your Personality Come Through. • Be yourself, don’t become a talking head—in any type of communication. You will esta
7. Don’t Read Unless You Have to. Work from an Outline. • Reading from a script or slide fractures the inter- personal conne
9. Grab Attention at the Beginning, and Close with a Dynamic End. • Do you enjoy hearing a speech start with “Today I’m goi

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