Get Organized

• Eliminate Fear Of Rejection
• Practice And Prepare Extensively
• Focus On Patterns

-Watch Yourself In The Mirror

• Your facial expressions
• Your gestures
• Your body movements

-Record Yourself And Learn Your Voice

– Work On Your Breathing

– Practice Some More .

– Give Your Speech To Another Person

• A significant other
• Your friends
• Your parents
• Your dog

– Develop A Plan To Improve Your Next Speech

• How do you think you did?
• Are there areas you think you could have improved?
• Did you seem stiff or make any weird facial expressions?
• Did you use a PowerPoint to your advantage? Did it help?
• Did you use “um” often?
• How was your rhythm?

-Bonus Public Speaking Tip: Utilize The Powerful Speech Pause

– Training Video: The 4 Types Of Speech Pauses

– The Key Takeaways For You From This training are:

• Use the sense pause to allow people to absorb the new information and catch up with you.
• Use the dramatic pause to make a point stick in the listener’s minds.
• Use an emphatic pause to emphasize an important point.

Use the sentence-completion pause to make a statement or quote a line in which everyone is familiar, then let the audience answer it for you.