Public Speaking skills and strategies

To prepare a speech, you need to

• Know your audience, content, and time frame
• Write it the night before
• Create a lot of slides to read
• Quote a lot of research

Before your speech,

• Make cue cards to read verbatim
• Stay up late and worry
• Have confidence that you can wing it
• Practice in front of a mirror, another person, or a video camera

During your speech,

• use a lot of "ums" and "ahs"
• mumble
• do not use filler language or touch your face or clothing
• read off your slides because you are nervous

Your hand gestures and body language should

• match your words
• confuse the audience
• not be done at all
• scare people

Before you speak, you can

• stare at the audience to make them feel uncomfortable
• let the audience know you are scared and unprepared
• ask for a potium or stage to be put in place
• take deep breaths and have confidence that you are organized

During the speech, you should

• never have props or visuals
• stand in one place the entire time
• Maintain eye contact and address the entire audience with your movements
• provide a bunch of handouts to keep the audience busy

To prepare for speaking in public, you should

• share your speech on social media
• try out your speech on everyone, even if they are not the audience you plan to address
• be organized, practice, anticipate questions, and have brief notes
• buy expensive technology

One of the worst things that can happen when you speak in public is...

• people laugh or cry
• people cannot hear you
• people cannot see you
• people cannot understand you

You should know effective public speaking tips because...

• kids, adults, and elderly people should know these things
• you may be asked to speak to an audience in your career or avocation
• you will never be asked to speak in public
• speaking in public is overrated

When you deliver a speech in public, think about ...

• keep it impersonal
• do not teach anything new
• talk circles around the audience and have them guess what you are telling them
• tell the audience what you will tell them, tell them, then summarize what you told them