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As a public speaker, you will often face challenges to get your message effectively across clearly to the audience. For public speaking, it’s also a chance for you to showcase your expertise and possibly get more sales if you’re selling something.

Here’s 7 Tips for You to Communicate Better In Public Speaking.

1. Body Language
You may have heard of the 7-38-55 Rule where 7% of effective communication is done with words, 38% with the tone of voice and 55% through body language.

So, if you want to communicate better, you have to learn how to use body language to communicate with your audience to have a jump start to success.

2. Eye Contact
Eye contact is extremely crucial to your success. When you are speaking to a crowd, whether large or small, you’ll want to fix your eyes at a certain group of people.

You can also choose just one person in the audience to speak to and focus on him or her. Of course, don’t stare.

When you are talking, fix your eyes on a certain group of people and direct your speech towards them. After you’ve “talked” with them for about a minute or two, you can shift your focus to another group as you move on to your next point so you engage the audience.

3. Take It Slow
This is pretty relative because everyone is different. However, when you take it slow, what I mean is to slow down the speed at which you are used to speaking… this is especially true if you are a naturally fast speaker.

When you are speaking fast, sometimes, your mind is racing to keep up. Taking it slow allows your mind to craft the right words for you to use to get your message across more clearly.

4. Speed Up
Have you been speaking publicly and you see more and more people gradually getting bored or tired? How about if the people you are talking to privately start to lose interest and have that blank look?

This could be a clue that you need to speed up to get to a pace where you are able to transmit your message as well as hold the attention of your audience.

5. Turning Up The Volume
When you are speaking publicly, turning up the volume really helps you sound professional – either mechanically or physically increasing your voice volume.

Not shouting, of course. But when you speak loud and clear, there’s an impression that you are proclaiming something that people should listen to.

If you’re concerned about being too loud – in comparison to being too soft – it’s the lesser evil.

6. Use of hands
Using your hands is part of learning how to use body language.

For example, putting your hands in your pocket while you are talking portrays different things – it could mean you are comfortable or nervous, have something to hide or look authoritative.

You don’t want to be using too many hand gestures because that might not work to your advantage. Use your hands for emphasis by using them in appropriate moments with your speech.

7. Give and Take
When you are communicating as a public speaker, you want to have a give and take approach to it.

For example, a “give” public speaker is like a university professor giving a lecture. There’s a lot of information but people might get bored with all the information.

A “take” public speaker is like a person drawing attention to himself by talking about his life story and his accomplishments. He draws a lot of attention to himself but the listener may not benefit as much and may lose interest.

A Give and Take approach is to mix both strategies together. You give information and mix yourself in by giving your own story or accomplishments.

In essence, you have to be confident when you are doing public speaking. Often times, if a speaker is new and not confident, the audience can smell it like fat kids to fresh fat food. Use these 7 tips, be confident and speak!

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