Winning the audience with your public speaking confidence

The important day has arrived and you want some public speaking confidence. You have been introduced to the spectators and the subject of your speech has been announced. From this point on, youare the main focus of attention. You are on your own and all eyes are on you!

This is where you start your performance. It’s not only a question of getting into your speech as fast as feasible, but mentally preparing both yourself, and the audience too, for what you are about to give.

A sense of the dramatic is called for.

It isn’t merely a collection of words that you are going to be using ; like any performance it’ll involve the employment of movement, passion, eye contact, dramatic pause, and lots of other techniques used by actors each day of their working lives.

And this is where the performer in you must rise to the fore.

For some people, this is the toughest part.

They are not ‘born actors’ and find that putting on a sense of the dramatic doesnot come naturally. The danger, too, is that by ‘trying too hard’ to be a performer they come across as ham actors lacking sincerity and thereby losing credibility.

In this regard, everyone has to find out their own comfort zone and act in a style that’s both comfortable and sounds natural. Getting a good friend or companion to listen through and advise on how you do can be invaluable in this regard.

When your name is called, you want to look calm and collected, yet enthusiastic and excited that you’ve been honoured by being asked to talk.

When your name is declared, you should walk purposely onto the stage with your head held high, your shoulders back, asmile on your face.

You look round the audience. You need to wait for silence ; comprehensive silence so we can hear that self-evident pin dropping. Never be fearful of long silences.

They add drama. They heighten tension. And at the very start they add to the overall expectation of a star performance.

Now you have engaged the audience and you are building your public speaking confidence.

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