QUALITIES OF THE BEST SPEAKERS

1. Stand erect distributing your weight on both the legs. Do not

hold onto the mike or to the podium for support.

2. Have a good posture and appearance. Do not lean on the
podium.

3. Be confident, relaxed and energetic. Do not play with your
clothes or fingers.

4. Wear clothes that befit the occasion.

5. Convey sincerity, conviction and enthusiasm for the subject.

6. Begin the speech, after passing for a few seconds, looking over
the audience.

7. Open the speech with a striking, catchy introduction looking
into the eyes of the audience.

8. Have a conversational tone.

9. Establish eye contact with the audience.

10. Use gestures to emphasize and clarify your points.

11. Allow your hands, to fall naturally to your sides, when not
gesturing.

12. Have enough voice projection.

13. Modulate your voice.

14. Speak at moderate speed. Do not rush through.

15. Pause before and after important ideas.

16. Have pleasant mannerisms.

17. Do not read your speech.

18. Manage time.

19. Close the speech with a striking, impressive, concluding
remark.

20. Stop, while the audience is still eager to hear more.


Follow these steps and people will appreciate what you have to
say.
1, Make eye contact. Eye contact is very important. You can
look above the people's head because it looks like your looking
right at them, but you're really not! Don't overdo it or you'll risk
looking like you're nodding your head or you can appear stiff.
2, Have a point and stick to it. In some settings you must
speak on a certain subject. Even in casual conversation, though,
it is important to focus on a limited set of related ideas. If you
drift from one tangentially related idea to the next your speech
becomes a sort of bad poetry or misplaced filibuster that may
quickly bore the listener.
3, Speak clearly. It may be tempting to say, "El whooziwhatsit
fonctionne bien in thinger teh other day." It may also not be
worth the listener's time to try to figure out what you mean.
4, Adjust your speech for your audience. A technical
audience will appreciate your use of jargon and acronyms. If your
audience has trouble grasping the concepts you are relating, it
may be necessary to speak slowly and offer generally familiar
examples.
5 Don't use one tone the entire speech. It makes you sound
very dry, dull, and boring as a
speaker and personality wise. It makes you a much better
speaker when you raise your voice a bit here and there. Make it
sort of like a debate almost, and it's on something you really care
for that's really important! Study Martin Luther King. He is one of
the most well-known speakers in history. His tone goes up and
down.
6Don't patronize. When people are treated like they're idiots or
little children, they may become hostile and ignore what you're
saying. You sound patronizing when you use sing-song tones in
your speech or sigh loudly, or if you belittle the listeners in any
way.
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Be interesting
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Speak up. People have to hear what you are saying even if they
are sitting in the back row or there is a lot of noise.
9, Be honest. Remember the story of the boy who cried, "Wolf!"
10, Organize what you're saying. If there are several ideas or
details related to your main point, speak about each one in a
deliberate fashion. If you are trying to convey large amounts of
information, you may need to outline what you will say at the
outset and then summarize what you've said at the conclusion.

11, Be polite, follow social conventions and be
rational. Obviously there are many speakers that do not follow
this step and yet have large and doting audiences. You probably
aren't one of those speakers.
12. Use your hands! Nothing is worse than a speaker with his
hands in his pocket or his hands just sitting by his side.