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Category: Craft of Public Speaking
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11 moments in your speech where you should pause
Your words are as important as your silences. Pausing is vital to an understandable, engaging, and successful speech. However, knowing when and how to pause can be a challenge for a speaker. Mostly, you should follow your intuition. While training, rehearse to find out where the pauses feel more natural and comfortable for you. Record and…
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Power Up Your Presentations: Expert Tips for Impressing Your Team
Presentations within your own organization are the most challenging public speaking for many people. There is a lot of perceived pressure to make an impression and stand out. The fear of messing up is real. When you are presenting your ideas or a new project you’ve created, you have an increased desire for them to…
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Confidently Speaking: Mastering Body Language for Professional Success
Body language can be a powerful weapon in working up your confidence and self-esteem. By using some specific body language, you’ll appear more confident to your audience. Looking confident to others will make you feel more confident yourself. Concerning public speaking, this confidence will increase your speech quality and interest. “I believe that if you…
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Why Silence Speaks Volumes: The Importance of Pausing in Effective Public Speaking
A speech is not only composed of words. Pauses are just as important. They regulate the rhythm of the speech and make it sound more natural and spontaneous. Many speakers are afraid of pausing. They see it as a moment of nothing, of emptiness. Yet, this couldn’t be farther from the truth. Pausing helps to…
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11 signs that you are an Emotionally Intelligent Speaker
High emotional intelligence is the key to success. It benefits both our professional and personal lives, helping us to manage stressful situations, and to handle pressure more effectively. As a speaker, you should always try to develop your emotional intelligence. It improves your social skills and helps you to communicate more effectively. Emotional intelligence makes…
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Speak to Inspire: Techniques from Motivational Speakers to Reach Your Audience
Also known as inspirational speakers, motivational speakers deliver speeches with the precise goal of motivating and inspiring the audience. Their job is to lead the audience to look at things from a different perspective. Making use of persuasive speech tactics, they need to reach and engage every person in the audience, while inspiring and educating…
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The structure of a speech – addressing needs
It’s time to prepare a speech. You have the topic and the delivery date. Now, you need to find a structure on which to base your speech. Structure will help you deliver the message in an organized, understandable way. The basic structure of any piece of writing, no matter the form, is: introduction, body, and…
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Public Speaking for Introverts: tips to conquer the crowd
What would you do if you get to work tomorrow, and someone asks you to give a public speaking? If you are an introvert, you’re probably starting to feel uncomfortable. Public speaking for introverts can sound like a nightmare. However, being on stage is a unique opportunity to reach other people and make yourself heard.…
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Internationally mixed audience – perspectives on presenting
Capturing and keeping the attention of an international audience is a challenge. Here are some tips on cross cultural communication for how to deal with diversity in your audiences, when you prepare and present!
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Humor is no joke in public speaking
Humor can be used to improve situations. It improves social relationships, diffuses tension, and helps us to address difficult topics. Humor allows us to laugh together, leaving a good feeling between us. It is no different for public speaking. Humor is a resource that can improve your presentation. Don’t worry, you don’t need to be…
