Hello Members,
Thank you so much avinash shahi for sharing the tips of presentation and public
speaking with the group as illustrated by >>> Payal Chanania. I think the share
had everything under the sun covered as far as presenting to an audience is
concerned. I was a member of a Club called The Toastmasters Club that
specifically trained on presentation and public speaking skills. This is more
of a corporate group that does speaking workshops across the world with
companies of various business interests. In India, they conduct these workshops
with many well known corporates like TCS, IBM, Infosys to name a few. To know
more about this Club please visit their website at: http://www.toastmasters.org
Coming back to the subject, below are some tips they have shared on their
international website that I swear by. Hope they will to some extent address
your querry. From my personal experience, I use a lot of humor in my
presentations and also get or keep the audience involved in the subject being
presented. This is a great way to break the ice with the audience and make the
presentation interesting. Remember, when you are presenting you are not
teaching but sharing valuable information and exchanging thoughts. I was
extremely impressed with the presentation skills of the person we spoke about a
few days back Daniel Kish, entertaining and very informative presenter he is.
If you see the video, link shared at the end of the email you will notice how
suttle he is in driving his message across to his audience. Simply brilliant!
Enough of the chit chat here are the tips:
1. Know your material. Pick a topic you are interested in. Know more
about it than you include in your speech. Use humor, personal stories and
conversational language - that way you won't easily forget what to say.
2. Practice. Practice. Practice! Rehearse out loud with all equipment you plan
on using. Revise as necessary. Work to control filler words; Practice, pause
and breathe. Practice with a timer and allow time for the unexpected.
3. Know the audience. Greet some of the audience members as they arrive. It's
easier to speak to a group of friends than to strangers.
4. Know the room. Arrive early, walk around the speaking area and practice
using the microphone and any visual aids.
5. Relax. Begin by addressing the audience. It buys you time and calms your
nerves. Pause, smile and count to three before saying anything. ("One
one-thousand,
two one-thousand, three one-thousand. Pause. Begin.) Transform nervous energy
into enthusiasm.
6. Visualize yourself giving your speech. Imagine yourself speaking, your voice
loud, clear and confident. Visualize the audience clapping - it will boost
your confidence.
7. Realize that people want you to succeed. Audiences want you to be
interesting, stimulating, informative and entertaining. They're rooting for you.
8. Don't apologize for any nervousness or problem - the audience probably never
noticed it.
9. Concentrate on the message - not the medium. Focus your attention away from
your own anxieties and concentrate on your message and your audience.
10. Gain experience. Mainly, your speech should represent you - as an authority
and as a person. Experience builds confidence, which is the key to effective
speaking.
And as promised here is the link to the video for Daniel Kish presenting to an
audience at youtube (Thankfully, the video player on this one is accessible)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYWpxmcHTOc
Mujtaba Merchant
Bangalore, India
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