How would you like to be able to guarantee that you could get any audience to love you? Of all the public speaking tips this one will be right up there at the top of the pile!
By discovering a few, easy to apply techniques, you will quickly be able to guarantee that even the most difficult audience will rate you as one of the most accomplished public speakers that the have ever heard. By gaining a thorough understanding of what your audience is looking for even before you step out on stage, you will already be in a position to guarantee that that you will make a positive connection with them from the very start.
So just what are these techniques that will guarantee to make any audience love you?
Step 1.
The most important place to start is understanding exactly what your audience wants - and expects - to hear. Once you know what topic you will be speaking on, this is easily discovered from your initial research. It really isn't cheating to go and ask a few people who have an interest in the subject what questions they would like answered or what aspect is most important to them. Browse through the search engines or borrow books on the subject from your local library - you'll soon get an idea of what is in your audience's minds.
Step 2.
Now you must concentrate on building an easy rapport with your audience. The best - and easiest - way is simply to remember to smile and make eye contact throughout your delivery. You are a warm and friendly person, so make an effort to let your audience know that too! One very important tip that is overlooked by so many public speakers is to be in the room or auditorium whilst their audience is arriving. This gives you the chance to greet a few people personally and will ensure that you are far more memorable than other speakers. Your audience will also feel that they already know and like you before you are formally introduced on stage.
Step 3.
Use words and language that is appropriate for the topic and that your audience will understand. This shared knowledge will endear you to your audience but be very careful not to over-do the jargon. Remember, it's a fine line between appearing to really understand the subject and being seen as a know-all!
Step 4.
Always make sure that your speech contains benefit after benefit for your audience. Your speech is for their sole satisfaction and fulfillment - not yours. Deliver solutions to their problems and aim to meet as many of their wants as you can. Audiences want to be informed, entertained, educated, emotionally or spiritually fulfilled or to be shown how to gain some financial or health advantage - so work at satisfying as many wants from this list as you can.
And the greatest of all public speaking tips?
Step 5.
Relax and appear confident on stage.
If you are at ease, then your audience will be at ease also. It is a fundamental truth that your audience will mirror what you project on stage, so if you are embarrassed, uneasy or hesitant in your manner, they will be feeling the same. If, on the other hand, you sub-consciously demonstrate your love and appreciation for your audience as they give you their undivided attention, then they will do the same for you - without realising exactly why they are feeling warm and appreciative towards you!
If you can incorporate these public speaking tips into every one of your presentations, you will quickly discover that making your audience love you is an easy and natural process and one that you will wonder how other, less successful public speakers manage to do without.
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