The art of making effective speech before an audience is known as “Public Speaking”. It involves careful planning, preparation, and practice along with skill in using gestures, body stance to communicate with listener. Nowadays effective communication is a perquisite in all spheres of life, whether it is communicating in school, professional field, or with family or friends. Public speaking is different than communicating in a group. It requires you to speak to an audience with self confidence and positive attitude. Some people have strong fear of speaking in front of gathering called stage fright.

Essential Elements of Public Speaking

• Audience: Who are you speaking to? Make sure that you know the level of understanding of the audience. Speaking using technical terms that your audience won’t understand will make them lose interest.

• Content: What are you speaking? Make sure that you know and understand the content of your speech well. If you don’t, then you at the risk of forgetting it during the speech. Your lack of knowledge on the subject will also make you nervous. Always choose to speak on familiar subjects as this will enhance your confidence level. Always be well-prepared beforehand never think and prepare at venue.

• Body Language: How are you speaking? Maintaining eye-contact with the audience is also important. To keep them interested, you can add a little humor in your speech. This will also help you feel at ease. Begin slowly and after few seconds you feel in full command, then go full swing this also overcome your major fear of speaking Confidence and positive attitude are one of the deciding factors for judging individual speaking skills.

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