Have you got stage fright and fumble while speaking to the large audience? Don't worry its very common and we all go through the same but what about speaking in front of your directors, clients, and customers. Fumbling there means loss of opportunity. Why not brush up your public speaking skills now, so that you aren't at the losing end.
Lets take an example, a doctor and a lawyer both eulogized the same close friend at a funeral. Coming from the medical background, the doctor explained, how the viral strain proved incompatible with life. He said, “A precipitate diagnosis had discounted toxicology results, and led to the dilatory discovery of a broader panacea vis-à-vis that pathogenic virus which altered modern medicine indelibly.” Confused? In this short speech, he explained how and why his friend died. Moreover, he also informed hundreds of people that this man’s death ultimately saved the lives of millions. Despite this enlightening speech, nobody cared.
On the other hand, the lawyer, spend his time explaining how is best buddy scored the only two points of his otherwise forgettable high school basketball career. Both these men described their friend but you wouldn’t know it.
Cut the long story in short, you should know:
* What to speak?
* When to speak?
* How to speak?
* Where to speak?
What to speak is something very important. When it comes to speaking that too in front of diverse crowd, you should choose the best yet appropriate words. In short, you are able to justify them effectively. Intellectual people are in a habit of using tough vocabulary and loads of jargon but what's the use when your audience fails to understand them. Keep your words simple and direct by maintaining audience attention.
According to the experts, be a miser when it comes to writing a script for public speaking. While preparing a speech for presentation, lecture, and meeting simply delete mindless and needless words. Strunk and White once said, “Omit needless words.” However, the biggest question here is, what qualifies as needless words.
Anything which is away from your main point and contributes to a muddy, convoluted sentence, just delete it without thinking twice. Also active verbs provide a prime way to economize. During public speaking, you should focus all your points around a single, memorable theme. After you have decided upon the theme and words, next task on hand is how to say it. The manner in which you deliver your words can make or break your public speaking. During public speaking always include your audience and you can keep your listeners engaged by drawing them into examples. By engaging them through direct address projects how well you’re doing.
Ending with the same example from the funeral, if the doctor was invited to speak at a convention for physicians, he would have hit a grand slam and have got a standing ovation. Whereas, the lawyer’s decision to center his speech over his friend's playing skills was a total flop because it wasn’t his focus. So, study your audience well before you step on the podium to address the diverse audience.