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 Public Speaking: 7 Ways to Build Public Speaking Skills

Public speaking is the act of speaking live to an audience either online or offline.

So your audience can vary in numbers. You need this skill in business, teaching and also in your corporate jobs where you make a presentation with power point slides.

How important is this skill? Some schools have good facilities and the teachers are trained to teach the students soft skills like public speaking.

They even incorporate it into their class projects, but it doesn’t stop there because the bulk of the work is still on the student who has to put in more effort into self development .

If you were not privileged to attend such schools or you’ve not spoke in public before, you can still use the seven steps below to build your public speaking skills.

Have someone you listen to on a regular basis. Someone who their teaching or speech would help you in building your public speaking skills. It’s not compulsory you know the person.

  • Listen to different youtube videos and their style.

Listening to different youtube videos on a consistent basis would help you build a good public speaking skill you desire.

All you just have to is to be committed and willing to learn.

  • Preparation. 

In every thing you do, preparation is key. So you need to be prepared for any speaking engagement you have by writing down what you want to say, editing it and practicing.

  • Practice. 

After you’ve prepared what you have to say for your speaking engagement, the next thing is practice.

There are no strict rules to practicing, practice! practice!! practice!!! Until you are a master at it.

  • Ask yourself the question of why.

Now you have done all the needed things  you need to do.

But you need the right motives to prepare for your speech.

If you ask yourself why this speech and what it would impart on the audience, you would be able to put in the right energy to prepare for your speech.

 

  • Prepare with your audience in mind. 

Yes, you can’t prepare without your audience in mind.

You are going to talk to them, so ask yourself questions what do my audience want, what answers do they seek to have.

So your speech should have the possible answers your audience need.