Public Speaking Tips
Summary
Every professional must have the ability to make an impact on the people around you. If one cannot command attention and make ones advice heard, what use are they? But the question that flows from this is too rarely asked. And it’s one that too few of us learn at the start of our careers. The consequence is that your ability to make an impact grows slowly as you acquire these skills. Seasoned professionals at the peak of their career can influence their peers and clients because they have gained experience and expertise in their professional domain – but also, because they have learned to present their ideas with impact. The behavior that will give you professional impact are equally simple to explain, however, and, with a little practice, you can easily master them.
1. Ramping up and Argument
The ability to transition your argument into the start of the topic to the main point, is important for public speaking. The maturity of this looks like someone saying something compelling. But how can you pursue others to be convinced and moved to take an action?
To achieve this, you must speak with intention by using a combination of cues (psychological and emotional) to change the way your listeners think and act.
If you are not landing the convincing part, then you may be in 2nd to last or prior levels of communication, in the following:
- Make something sound compelling
- Information Absorbed
- Persuasion
- creating ways to ensure they remember the important parts of what you say
- influencing people to change their minds
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2. Focus on the clarity and simplicity of message
There are many ways to build the impact you want. So, we need to be selective. Treasury advice is complex and subtle. I get it. But you are an expert, and that gives you a handicap when you want to communicate with impact. It’s called ‘the curse of knowledge’. You don’t have one point to make; you have 10. And you know that the cause-effect linkages form a web of weak and strong interactions – not a chain. But many of the people you need to persuade are drowning in information. If you want to make an impact, they need a buoy that floats in one direction only – one solid thing to hold on to. The skill of a great communicator is to find the prime message, and to deliver it with clarity. When you do this, your listener thinks, “Aha, I get it. I trust this person”. Only then have you earned the trust you need, to move to the next tier of subtlety and complexity. This allows you to offer a couple of secondary factors, and perhaps a flavour of those cause-and-effect linkages.
3. 3. Boost your impact by listening
4. Harness the power of posture, poise and eye contact
Resources
- https://www.treasurers.org/hub/treasurer-magazine/four-tips-how-make-impact-public-speaking
- https://www.saintleo.edu/about/stories/blog/9-tips-to-improve-your-public-speaking-skills
- https://www.reddit.com/r/lifehacks/comments/rpuvt3/do_any_of_you_guys_have_any_tips_for_public/
