Can you relate to the awkward feeling, when a teacher looked at you to explain a topic in the class.
If yes, then you may need to work on your public speaking skills. Feeling of awkwardness or nervousness is quite common.
A celebrated speaker was once a nervous fellow, who usually felt hesitated to speak on stage due to thought of being judged.
However, the person keep his will over his fear or any negative thought that is pulling him back, and conquered the trait of public speaker, and became an influencer.
Anyone can be a confident public speaker via continue practice on your areas of improvement, and push yourself to do better every day.
Let’s talk more about public speaking, know the necessary skills required to ace the trait of speaking confidently or giving a speech on a national or international platform.
So, let’s get started!
Important Skills to Practice To Become A Confident Public Speaker:
Listen to a short video of a speech from a popular figure on a renowned platform and notice everything which include way of speaking, content, expression, tone, etc. about the speaker, and make a note of it.
Repeat the same activity for 3-4 video, and note down your observation. You’ll notice the following traits as common in most of the videos.
Body Language
Voice
Confidence
Clarity of Thoughts/ Thought Structure
Fluency
Let’s learn about these skills in a much deeper manner.
Body Language:
Language of expression - are you aware of it? Think of your science teacher in the class, how does she behave while explaining a topic.
Way 1: She sits quietly, and read out from the book.
Way 2: She uses the board, roam around the class, use certain gestures, facial expression to deliver a meaningful learning lesson.
I feel, mostly way 2 is used by the good teachers.
Thus, while explaining a topic, delivering a speech, or making a simple conversion, proper use of body language leave a strong impression of your personality.
Voice:
Changes in voice happen as per the individual emotions. E.g. Your voice usually gets high, when you say something out of fear, excitement, or anger, whearas emotion like sadness makes the voice down.
Well the voice modulation may vary with certain emotion e.g., the voice goes high on experiencing anger, and it goes down on experiencing fear or nervousness.
However, we need to practice voice modulation keeping majority in mind, so most people can connect to you instead going confused with your speech delivery.
The best way to practice voice modulation is to talk to yourself (Your mirror image), or you can record yourself while reading a piece of the content written by you.
Confidence:
Most people believe, ‘Confidence’ is the super trait that required to win every challenge life throws at you, be it personal or professional grounds.
Continue to believe yourself, face the challenge again and again, and experience the storm of positivity inside you. This is your confidence, that will make you believe that every skill can be mastered by continuous practice and eliminating weak areas.
When it comes to speaking confidently, you’ll require to practice multiple times with you and among your friends before actual delivery.
Your practice will make you see the marvellous result.
Clarity of Thoughts:
During school, students are usually assigned with a topic and ask to speak for 5 minutes.
Some students speak really well, where some go blank or have a few lines to share.
What’s the difference?
Well, confidence is one factor for sure, but knowledge about the topic, preparation, making proper notes of your thoughts and research too play a key role here.
Experts say, when you read about a topic, you get clarity, but when you write what you have read, you explain yourself and the get it learnt.
So, gather your thought, research about the topic, align the content in a proper manner, and then present it in front of the audience.
Consider your speech as a responsibility, as so many people listening to you, giving you their precious time, and expect fruitful result in return.
Fluency:
Fluency is the end result of practising the above four traits required to become a confident public speaker.
Fluency is an art to deliver your speech in a understandable manner.
It consists of right pronunciation and proper use of grammar.
You can get fluent in any language, if you’ve mastered the four skills mentioned above.
Are You Ready To Take Your First Step To Become A Confident Speaker?
In today’s time, where most people from all the generations are facing camera, acing the art of confident speaking has become easier in compare to old times.
You may record yourself everyday for 5 minutes, and see you progress. Choose a topic, prepare a proper draft for it, and deliver it to you.
Be your first audience, first reviewer, and first manatee, and then present yourself among an audience of 10 or 100, or 1000, you’ll become an example everyone look up to.
So, are you ready to transform yourself to a confident public speaker?
All The Best!
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