This blog highlights some of the points which focuses on public speaking or even presenting some ideas to a group of people
When it comes to presenting ideas to a group of people, we mostly focuses on the confidence, the speaker should have which also gives an interest for the audience. Making eye contact with the audience. Making the audience interactive. Do practice several times before the stage. Keep a positive attitude always. These all play a major role in the public speaking, there are much more things to consider when it comes to the audience.
- Know your audience
Understanding your audience will help in preparing the content for your speech. While preparing the content, we need to keep the audience view and what will they know about that speech. The content of the speech should vary for the novice and the expert.
Its not only the content which will have the impact on the audience. The way use express the ideas to the audience also play an important role. - Time to process
Give your audience enough time to process the information you want to convey. It should not be overwhelming of information which may cause the audience to lose focus. - Be precise
Find what do you want your audience to keep in their mind and process and in which area you want to create the impact - Make the content relative to the audience
By making the content relative to your audience, they can relate their life experience and their knowledge on the topic. - Try to avoid attractive colors or pictures on the presentation
Having attractive colors on the presentation will make the audience focus more on the presentation and makes a distraction from the speech. Try to use only necessary pictures and text on the presentation. - Don’t be general, be specific
Instead of telling this book is great, try to be specific in your content. Make it specific as this book focus on the journey of the boy who is from a village and takes the journey to find treasure in pyramid. Use the curiosity inside your audience to find more about the topic, even after your speech. - Use your audience’s language
Try to make the content focus on the wider audience. Use your audience language, it not the language your audience speak. It is the language of your topic. The content should be in a way both novice and expert should understand. Focus on how do you want to communicate your thoughts to the audience. - Never lose track of the speech
When it comes to speaking, we have more to convey to the audience which may cause to lose track of the topic. Be conscious on the way your speech is progressing.
