Winning the delegates with your public speaking confidence November 1, 2009
Posted by janey in : personal success , trackbackThe important day has arrived and you want some public speaking confidence. You have been introduced to the onlookers 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 quickly as possible, but mentally preparing both yourself, and the fans too, for what you are about to impart.
A sense of the dramatic is called for.
It is not merely a collection of words that you are going to be using ; like any performance itwill involve the employment of movement, passion, eye contact, dramatic pause, and many other systems employed 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 thus losing credibility.
In this regard, everybody has to find out their own comfort area and act in a style that’s both cushty and sounds natural. Getting a good friend or companion to listen through and advise on how you are doing can be invaluable in this regard.
When your name is called, you need to look calm and collected, yet eager and excited that youhave been honoured just by being asked to talk.
When your name is declared, you should walk intentionally onto the stage with your pride intact, your shoulders back, a grin on your face.
You look round the onlookers. You must wait for silence ; absolute silence so that we can hear that proverbial pin dropping. Never be fearful of long silences.
They add drama. They increase stress. And at the 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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