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Public Speaking Skills Training: Public Speaking Courses - The Walls Have Ears
How many times have you heard a speaker begin his or her presentation by asking, “Can you hear me alright in the back?” When the speaker asked this question, the entire audience had no problem hearing the question, correct? That was because the speaker was making it a point to be cognizant of the volume of their voice at that moment and consequently, was doing a good job of projecting.
By the same token, how often have you observed that same speaker lowering their voice immediately following the question, and staying that way for the remainder of the presentation? A lot, right? That was because the speaker’s own concentration had moved on to other aspects of their performance, and the volume of their voice was no longer on their mind.
Maintaining an appropriate volume in public speaking during your entire presentation is a learned skill, which only a handful of speakers have mastered. It has little to do with the content of the presentation’s message. It is a separate talent. As with most talents, it takes practice. In public speaking, always deliver your presentation as if you were speaking to the back wall. One technique I have learned over the years is to imagine you are delivering the presentation from the front of an empty room and that your entire audience is in a remote location, hearing you via a microphone that has been placed on the back wall. The volume you would naturally use in that scenario is the volume you should be using in public speaking anyway. If you practice this imagery, it will become a habit after only a couple of presentations. Then, you will have acquired a public speaking talent that the majority of speakers have not yet perfected themselves!
If you still doubt my claims, consider this: Did you ever notice how people tend to talk louder than normal when using a speakerphone or talking on a cell phone? Remember that annoying person at the table next to you in the restaurant? Remember wondering to yourself why they were speaking so loudly into their cell phone?
Even though the state of the art in electronics today provides us with cell phones and speakerphones that are perfectly capable of transmitting our voice spoken at a conversational volume, it is a rare person who does not speak overly loudly into these devices. While I have no empirical data to explain why this is so (I suppose that would be an entire book for someone more knowledgeable to write), I believe it is because we are speaking to an unseen person, and consequently are continually aware that we are at some distance from the receiver of our voice, so we naturally increase our volume, whether it is needed or not. Obviously, it doesn’t matter how far we are from the person(s) on the other end of our phone. It only matters how far we are from our phone! Subconsciously though, we still tend to increase our speaking volume when the audience is unseen. Leverage this “natural” tendency to your advantage when giving your presentation in public speaking, by imagining your audience is remote.
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