Brilliant Public Speaking

Thursday, was the day of the big event. The speaker had spent nearly two weeks now preparing his speech and was confident it would blow the socks off everyone in attendance. When his big day finally came, he was full of nervousness and felt a little bit overwhelmed because the audience was much larger than he had anticipated. The speaker wondered whether or not he had prepared enough. What if someone in the audience was more of an expert on the topic than he was? Public speaking can be a daunting task, especially if you don’t know the proper methods and approach techniques.

The topic video, “Brilliant Public Speaking,” talked about many techniques that help public speakers catch and keep the attention of the audiences they are speaking

One, it is extremely important to make eye contact with key individuals in every section of your audience. Eye contact serves to make delivery of the message more personal to those in attendance. If this is done right, many in attendance will feel as though you are addressing them personally and thus feel more involved and interested in what you have to say. Two, several speakers in the video said that the speech or presentation was for the target audience and not for the person giving the speech or presentation. That being said, it is important to do your research and to know the demographics of individuals you are speaking to. Lastly, what the speaker said about ending a speech or presentation was very interesting. Many people never think that saying, “In Conclusion” or “In Closing” or anything similar to that could clue those in audience in to the fact that your speech or presentation is about to end, could cause you to lose the audience. People may start stand up to leave or fondling around for car keys thinking they can get a jump on traffic by leaving before the strongest points or items the speaker may want the audience to remember about what was