What techniques should you use for engaging the audience when public speaking?

The day has arrived and you need some public speaking confidence. You’ve been introduced to the spectators and the subject of your speech has been declared. From this point on, you’re 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 practicable, but mentally preparing both yourself, and the audience too, for what you are about to impart.

A feeling of the dramatic is known as for.

It’s not merely a collection of words that you’re going to be using ; like any performance itwill involve the utilization 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 front.

For some folk, this is the hardest part.

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

In this regard, everybody has to discover 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 do can be invaluable in this regard.

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

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

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

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

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

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