Tips For Giving A Great Speech | Tips For Eye Contact

Public Speaking Giving A Great Speech

Tips For Giving A Great Speech

The face. Can't talk about the body and not talk about the face, because the face is a really important part of public speaking. Why? The eyes. And yes, there really is some truth to that. I can't build a relationship with you as the listener unless you make eye contact with me, so it's really, really important that you make eye contact. Now, there's a couple of rules here. Make eye contact, rather than delivering your entire speech like this, and never, ever, ever, ever, ever looking up. You don't want to do that. But I'll tell you what's even worse, and I find this as a public speaking professor, that the student will sit there and they will give the entire speech looking directly in my eyes, piercing wholes through my flesh. Yeah, no, that makes me uncomfortable. So you have to get to where you can kind of take a look around. Talk to your entire audience. Not avoid them, not focus on one, but talk to everybody. And it's a little tricky because what we tend to do is we tend to focus where we're getting the most positive feedback. And I'm going to talk about that later. But the person who is giving you a smile and a nod is the person that you're going to become the most comfortable looking at. But don't forget to deliver your speech to the whole group, making eye contact with everyone. And again, with the face, relax and smile. You don't want to deliver your speech with an oatmeal face, and you never smile, and is really expressionless, because, well, you know, it would be more exciting to lick cardboard. Use your face. Smile, make great eye contact.

Tips For Eye Contact

Tips For Eye Contact

Eye contact. We just talked about the face and how we want to be real expressive. But, now I want to talk about your eyes. And, this is really important. Remember, I talked about how you have your material in a book. Two things that you should not do with your eyes. One, leave your eyes down on the pages of the book throughout the whole reading. If we never see your eyes, if we never make eye contact with you we can't build a relationship with you. At the same time, you don't want to look at us the whole time and never look down at your book. Because, if you never look down at your book that means the material is memorized. And, you can't memorize this material. So, you definitely want to be real familiar with the material. Familiar enough, that you can make eye contact. But, find a balance. Looking at us, looking at the audience, looking at the book. Us, the book, us, the book. Find that perfect balance of eye contact...