DOs AND DON'Ts OF PUBLIC SPEAKING!

 DOs AND DON'Ts OF PUBLIC SPEAKING!

Here we are talking about communication skills specifically. If you haven't had a lot of experience doing stand up speaking, here are few dos and don'ts that will help you in the right direction. 

We are gonna start with the don'ts and then you will be provided with do version of it.

1. Don't get ramble and long-winded: Anytime a speaker is disorganized, and weaves all around, it is very hard to follow what he or she is talking about and instead what you want to do is give a nice organized and concise message. That means you have to take the time beforehand when you are preparing to create a nice introduction, body and conclusion, make sure you have clear main points and there is a transition statement between each main point. 

2. Bad eye contact: You want not to look over the people's heads or not look at the floor, and not stare at the ceiling or scan around a like that. ONE THOUGHT, ONE LOOK! What you want is to look directly into a person's eye long enough to finish a thought and then move on and look directly into the next person's eyes long enough to finish a thought. 

3. Cluttered notes: Don't clutter up all your notes with all the details. The result is when we are nervous in the moment, we end up just locked into our notes and looking down the whole time and reading and sounding really stiff, really wooden and you are not going to again connect with people. So what you want to do instead is pare down your notes so that you can just have a conversational style with your audience. And it almost forces you or at least frees you to have a nice and normal conversation with them is your natural personality. 

4. Complex slides: Don't load up your slides with all complications and text. And one of the reasons is you don't want to stare at it and read from it. The other reason is that it is very hard to follow what is going on if your slides are jam-packed with the detail. What you want to do instead is to make sure that your slides are nice and clear, and simple and help you make whatever point you are making in that particular moment. 

5. Don't fidget: Don't widget with your hands or feet and don't pace back and forth aimlessly because you are nervous. What you wanna do instead to have a confident posture where you stand in one place for a little while and the if you want to move in a purpose move, stand in another place for a while and then another part of your message. That's a big part of how you come across non-verbally and I recommend to you when you are practicing, you work on this as well. 

6. Don't undo: Its how you use your voice. What you don't want to do is speak too softly, use a lot if filters like um and ah and so. What you want to do is have confidence voice where you speak loud like to the back of the room with a nice clear volume. The other thing you want to do is emphasize your key words with the sound your voice and also pause after you share a key idea or a key thought. Pause for a minute, silently. Don't fill it up with an um or an oh, the pause is much more effective. 

IT WAS ALL ABOUT WHAT YOU NEED TO MAKE YOUR PRESENTATION PERFECT. IF YOU FOLLOW THIS THOROUGHLY, THIS WILL DEFINITELY HELP YOU.