There are great postings on Wekie Tay’s Blog about “Proven Tips To Boost Your Public Speaking And Presentation Skills”.
You can click the below links to view the original postings.
Wekie shares the following tips in the Part 1:
1. Give life and characters to the people in your speeches.
2. Explore depth rather than breath.
3. Trust yourself, no matter how unprepared you are.
4. Speak with your audience, than merely to your audience.
Here are the tips from the Part 2:
1. Keep the speech generally positive if your purpose is to uplift the spirit.
2. Let us know what happened to the characters in your story.
3. Expand your body language with a purpose rather than to distract.
Wekie shares the following tips in the Part 3:
1. Harness the anticipation.
2. Shift the focus of your conclusion to your original purpose.
3. Cater your content to the audience.
Enjoy!
Yetti
Club President 2007-2008
Kowloon-Singapore Toastmasters Club
Hello again,
Expand your body language with purpose, rather than to distract”. Sound interesting. Can you please elaborate.
Cheers
Darren Fleming
Australia’s Public SPeaking coach
http//www.executivespeaking.com.au
Hi Darren,
You can go to Wekie’s blog post for further info.
http://wekie.wordpress.com/2007/12/12/proven-tips-to-boost-your-public-speaking-and-presentation-skills-part-2/
Yetti
P.S.
Here is the extract from Wekie’s posting in his blog:
“Expand your body language with a purpose rather than to distract.
You must be able to identify which part of the speech to utilize the body language. This is followed by selecting which part of your body you want to use for emphasis.
(Psychologically and linguistically, it can be taken further with the study of the right “Trigger Points” for greater impact on the audience.)”