Speaking Tips

Public speaking can be fun and it can be difficult. Here are a number of tips to help you sound right.

Approach on Key Points: Move forward to emphasize.

Be Conversational: Like you're talking to one person.

Bite-sized Chunks: Break it up. Make it digestible.

Breathe: Breathe deeply and slowly.

Control Your Speed: Don't rush. Pause for impact.

Eyeballing Individuals: Address individuals.

Forget Yourself: Get into the flow.

Getting Applause: Help them put their hands together.

Go with the Flow: Flex to your audience.

Handling Questions: Engaging and answering.

Hushing: Ways to quieten them.

Keep It Simple: Seek to inform, not impress.

Listen to the Audience: Verbally and visually.

Lower and Slower: To be credible and heard.

Managing Attention: At any time, to get and keep them listening.

Managing Mistakes: Do it with integrity.

Memorize Key Points: Remember the start, end and important bits.

Think Generously: Think well of everyone.

Reference Other Speakers: Integrate what other speakers have said.

Repeat Key Phrase: Emphasize through pattern.

Set the Tone: Create a consistent feeling.

Short Pauses: Like normal speech.

Show You Care: With passion, conviction, concern.

Speak Expressively: with variation, to sustain engagement.

Signpost: Words that show the way ahead.

Speaking don'ts: What not to do.

Transitioning: Closing current and opening new section.

Use Sensory Language: Appeal to every sense.

Use Technology: Supporting, not featuring.

Using Your Body: Your body speaks, so make it say the right thing.

Using Your Voice: How you sound is important.

Using Flipcharts: Can be good, if done well.

Using Questions: Make them think.

Using Props: Use physical artefacts.

Voice Roll: The moving cadence of speech.

Watch the Audience: See their emotional state.

Working the Diagonals: Eyeballing many at once.

Walking On Stage: Arrive with confidence.

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