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courses are designed for both the inexperienced presenter or as a refresher for the more experienced members of your company or organization. The Public Speaking Training Company’s public speaking skills training courses and workshops are offered in most major cities across the United States and Canada. All public speaking skills training classes are kept to a maximum of ten participants. This guarantees that all students will have ten digitally recorded in class practice exercises. The public speaking skills training course is conducted by two senior level instructors. This assures all participants that they will personally have the necessary face to face interaction to assure their success.
Our public speaking skills training courses will eliminate your fear or inexperience in public speaking and dramatically improve your speaking skills whether you are persuading, educating, or informing. Our highly interactive public speaking training courses focus on professional business communication including preparation, structure, delivery, and strategy, use of visual aids, and handling questions & answers. Contact us today by phone at 713-627-7700 or via email: service@publicspeakingtraining.net
Public Speaking Skills Training: 7 Ways to Communicate With Confidence in Public Speaking
Some people can stand in front of a room and speak with total confidence. That confidence comes through in their voice, stance and personality. Want to know the secret to that confidence?
- Do your homework. The speaker must know who is in the audience. It makes a difference if the attendees are teenagers, parents, unemployed workers, retirees and so on. When you know your audience, you can decide how to deliver your talk.
- Engage your audience. Do they look like they understand what you're saying? If not, simply ask them "Does this make sense to you?" and then focus on their reply.
- Smile. That's the best connector of all. It will relax you and will put your listeners at ease too. Your confident smile (even though you may be nervous) sets the tone in the room. Everything about you must shout confidence.
- Take a look at who is in the room. Make eye contact as you introduce yourself. Say your name clearly and slowly. Make more eye contact and smile.
This is all pretty easy, huh?
People like to be noticed and acknowledged. If possible, have your audience pair up for a quick exercise. Simple exercises allow your listeners to become more engaged with each other as you put the focus on them. You will notice increased energy in the room for sure!
- Practice. Whether you talk for 10 minutes or 50 minutes, the key to confidence is practice. Know your material and have some questions prepared to ask your audience (in case they don't have any questions to ask you.)
- Love your topic. Regardless of whether this is your business or a topic you just researched, love it. Talk about the positive aspects of it and how it relates to you or your audience. When you're passionate about something, it shows in your whole being.
- Tell a story. A story is a very powerful tool and the lessons will last years later when the speaker is long forgotten.
When I was in kindergarten, it was my turn to ring the call bell for recess. I had the bell in my hand and with the other hand, I hit it but the sound was muted. It was my big moment in the sun - my turn to ring the bell! I tried time and again, not realizing that I needed to set the bell down to ring it properly.
In the meantime, the students saw what I was doing and lined up for recess. I never got the bell to ring. It was a blow to my excitement... my moment in the sun was shattered.
So, years later when I became president of my rotary club, I told this story to them. Each week I rang the bell to open our meeting and when I did, I was 5 years old again. I rang it with pure joy and the club understood why. My story was still fresh in their minds years later.
To gain confidence, study successful speakers and notice how they make eye contact, smile and are passionate about their topic. Find a way to weave a story into the talk and you'll be a success for sure.
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