How to speak and present to an audience
Sometimes with a large audience. If you're speaking in a large auditorium, it might need to be you slightly magnified.
But it's it shouldn't be fake, you know, it must still be authentic. So what you're aiming for is you just looking comfortable in your skin. At ease with yourself and finding your own voice. You know, it's no good thinking. Oh, so and so is my hero presenter. I want to present like them because if you try and imitate somebody else, it won't work. It'll just look fake and it's not authentic. So it's it's you finding your own way sometimes.
It's useful to consider adopting a positive body language.
Because that changes the way we feel. What I mean by that is if you stand up straight, if you keep your head fairly still, if you have strong eye contact with your audience, if the gestures are economical vertical rather than fidgety. If the body is open. Just doing that makes you feel more confident and you're more likely to speak out.
Whereas, if you forget yourself and you sort of start to slump and you lose eye contact with the audience and your sort of fidget and scratch, you'll start to mumble and lose the tone of voice.
And how do you feel? Terrible!
It goes into a very unconfident demeanour so consider the body language that you're using and the tone of voice.
I think it's a big challenge for speakers in all situations to keep people listening, to make it clear, and that means that you have to put a an enormous amount of energy into that to give energy to that audience. But that must come from relaxation, not from I'm, you know, ‘being charismatic out here’, you know.
They don't believe that for a moment. In fact, it pushes your audience away, so it's relaxed. Draw them in and that heightens your presence. And it's one of the secrets of charisma.
