Public Speaking 101

1. Introduction : Hello and welcome to this course on public speaking. Now this course is designed to assist you on your journey of becoming a better, more confident, and efficient public speaker for all of your engagements, whatever that may be. We are going to be taking a look at a variety of things in this course. We're going to be looking at body posture. We're going to be looking at competence. We're going to be looking at tone of voice. We're going to be looking at mindset and we're also going to be looking at some really useful techniques that we can use to prepare ourselves for speaking engagements. So make sure that you take notes if you can re-watch the videos as many times as you like and enjoy the course. 2. Audience intention: Okay, so the first thing that we're going to look at today is something called emotional audience intention about what does that mean? Well, audience intention is what you want your audience to feel when you're delivering your presentation, when you're speaking engagement, and you deliver your speech to somebody and you deliver it to an audience. What we want them to feel, what emotions do we want them to feel? Cheering our presentation? It's really important that we know what that is because it essentially enables us to go into the room prepared to deliver presentation with the aim of making them feel a certain way. It may be that, for example, you're an entrepreneur, you have a really exciting new product. You're going into a meeting full of potential investors. Now when you're delivering your presentation to those investors, how do we want them to feel that we want them to feel motivated to take action? Do we want them to feel inspired? Do you want them to feel excited? It could be a whole host of different emotions that you want them to feel. And it's imperative that you write those down before you go into the room and you deliver your presentation. 3. Audience Continued: So what I want you to do is take a pen and paper or maybe you can do it on your phone, whatever you find easiest, and start to make notes about what it is you want your audience to feel. Okay. It doesn't matter if there's only five things or 20, or 30 or 40, the more the better, but don't worry about it. The key thing here is, is that you get started and you start preparing yourself and you start writing down your audience intentions. And I said to you before, I still do this today, my background is in acting and I do it for my shows. I do before I go on set, I am always writing down my audience intentions because it does help me in delivering the best performance I possibly can give. 4. Internal intention: So moving on now to something called internal emotional intention. This is on the flip side of audience intention because this now is all about you and how you feel. So entirely intention is really important because if we can prepare ourselves and we can list down all the emotions and things we wanted to feel whilst we're delivering our presentation. Nine times out of ten, when we go into the room and we actually deliver a speech or presentation, it's going to have an influence on how we perform. So I'm going to give you an example for this video and for this course. I wanted to be confident. I want to be confident in what I'm saying. I want to appear confident because essentially it makes me feel better and it makes me perform better. Excited, I'm really excited to be able to deliver this course. And I'm excited that I get to share something that I absolutely love with all of you. Number 3, passionate. What I feel passionate about what I'm doing, and I want to showcase that passion that I have for something I absolutely enjoy doing that. Again, sharing something that I'm passionate about with all of you. So again, take it, take a note, take a piece of paper, get your phones out, make notes, and try and go through your eternal intentions. How do you want to feel when you're delivering your presentation? Do you want to feel confident? Do you want to feel empowered? Do you want to feel excited? All of the positive emotions that you can think of, write them down of how you want to feel because it's another beneficial tool that you can associate with your presentation to make it go well, and to associate it with something positive. It's so important that you do these things beforehand because it all aid you when you get into the room. So we've got our audience intention and we've got our internal intention. Make sure that you broke both down and write as much as you can. A might be quite difficult for you at first if it's something that you've never done before. But I really encourage you to keep going and keep practicing and keep writing every day if you can take five-minutes, think is some new intentions that you might have that you want to feel, that you want your audience to feel. The more the better and the more you practice, the better, too. 5. Short term goals: The third thing that we're going to look at today is short term goals. Now, why a short-term goals so important for our public speaking? Well, I'm going to tell you when you go on stage or you go into a room and you've got a 30 minute presentation to deliver, things can get quite tiring quite quickly once the initial adrenalin has worn off and you get used to yourself being on stage. It's sometimes quite difficult to key public consistent, motivated momentum throughout the course of the presentation. Sometimes you might fall off a little bit and you might lose your place on a presentation if you're following a potential script or a board, or maybe if you, if you offer, can you complete, you're doing it in a more improvised manner. You may get lost in your way a little bit, or you may feel a little bit kinda lacking in energy and a little bit demotivated. You might even lose your way slightly. That's completely normal because we're all humans are related back to my days when I was acting on stage, for example, when you've got a very, very long scene, I'm not going to lie to you. It can be quite difficult to keep up and maintain the momentum for a consistent period of time, but you have to do it because you are a professional. How do you maintain it? Well, short-term goals are one of the best things that you can utilize for this fair anything? What are the benefits of creating short term goals for your presentation? Well, number one is that it raises endorphin levels. Yes. So when you set those short-term goals new delivering that presentation and you manage to hit short-term goal. It's going to raise your endorphin levels. You're going to feel better about what you're doing. You've got to feel better about yourself because you've just hits a short-term goal that you set for yourself. Number two, it keeps us go new, keeps us determine if we've got a range of short-term goals in place for our presentation. And we managed to hit them, and we managed to hit some of them, but we get all of them. We're going to be motivated to continue. And number 3, it lets us know that we're on the right track. And even if things have gone kind of a little bit sideways, we managed to hit our short-term goal at some point or another short-term goal. Great. We're back on it with just his short-term goal. It's really installing that positivity. That's what it's all about. It's reviving that positivity and it's bringing it straight into what we're doing with our presentation. So short-term goals, maybe you've only got one or two. Maybe it's a certain line that you want to hear, so important and you want to deliver it in a certain way. Maybe it's a certain reaction you want to get from your audience or you hope to get from your audience. Or maybe it's just a way you deliver your presentation. Maybe it's at certain times you're able to get to certain parts of your presentation and you've got there and you haven't messed up whatever it may be, but make sure they're positive short-term goals that you can have. It doesn't have to be a ton of short-term goals. You may only have 23 or four or five, depending on how long your presentation is and depending on how many you want to have in there. But I would really, really encourage you to start assessing those short-term goals. It's all about preparing yourself, and it's all about making sure that you've utilized every tool you possibly can for when you get into that space and you're delivering that presentation and that performance, I've saved performance because essentially you are performing whatever you're doing you in front of people. It's the performance. Even if it's, it's true to what you're saying and you believe in it. You still performing, you still performing and delivering something to an audience. So going back to it, Okay, I've got three things so far that I really wouldn't to do. That's your audience emotional intention, your internal emotional intention, and your short term goals. They are all equally likely as important as each other. And I highly encourage you to look at each one of those and to get it into practice and start doing that every day if you can, in preparation for what you have coming up. 6. Posture: Now posture is something that's not only important to us in performing our presentations, it's also extremely important in practically all aspects of our life. But why is posture so important? Well, the first thing that we have to think of is how we appear to other people, how other people perceive us. If we have really bad posture, we don't look confident in what we're doing. People are very unlikely to invest in what we're doing and best in what we're saying and us as people. But most importantly, it's about how we feel. I'm sure you've all been there. When you feel good about yourself, you're having a fantastic day. Maybe you've received some great news and you're out and about, you're doing your daily activities. Hey, confident, people who were attracted to that, people like that. People can see that you are confident. Individual people are more likely to engage with whatever it is that you're doing. Or you got to say, it's how we feel that really, really masses. If I feel really bad and I've got terrible posture or maybe I've just got terrible posture and I I feel okay, but there's just something not quite right. And to other people, I just appear very, very unconfident and quite uncomfortable. And it's easy to fall into that trap if you don't really check on your posture. For example, at the moment, when I'm talking to you, I've got my hands in my pockets, I've got slumped shoulders, my head's kind of bow down low. I don't really, really pay confident, although I think you believe I'm confident, I'm actually starting to feel quite uncomfortable. And it's all part of the cycle really that all links together. However, if I just straighten up my posture, I've got my feet width apart. I've got my shoulders spread out nicely. I've got my head raised, I've got my chest slightly forward and I'm facing directly ahead. I feel a lot more confident about myself and actually, I feel confident in what I'm doing while I'm saying it's a small change that makes a massive difference. That's why posture is so important. So let's go ahead and take a look at some exercises that we can use to balance out unimproved at posture. 7. Posture exercise 2: Okay guys, so this exercise is quite a simple exercise by some really useful and important exercise to help us with our posture. The first thing that we're going to do is we're going to start this with shoulder rolls forwards and shoulder rolls back and it goes like this. Okay. Remember as much effort as you possibly can. Okay. I don't really want to see small shoulder rolls. I want to see big exaggerated roles like this and you're going to follow me. So here we go. 1234567. Great. Okay. And this time we're going to go backwards and as we do, we're going to just push out, chest out ever so slightly as we roll our shoulders back. Okay, Here we go. 1234567. Great. Okay, I've shoulders and Martian warm. We're getting them nice and loose. The next thing we're gonna do is we're just going to start to generate a slight bounce in our nice, Okay. And then we're going to bend towards the floor making sure that our jaw is completely relax, relax your jaw, relax your arms. I want everything nice and loose, okay? And we're going to generate a slight bounce. As you browse stores abroad. Nice and light. Everything is news guys, Everything is nice and leaves. And then slowly on my count, we're going to come back up and we're going to do this in sequence. The last thing to come up with your hand to copy me. Here we go. 1 slowly rising back up. 234, Shoulders rotate back again. And then five had rises up and faces towards the front. Okay, so simple exercise guys, but now we should fill a lot looser. Our posture should be a lot better than it was previously before the exercise and we're ready to go. 8. Hand gestures: The next thing that we're going to look at is hand gestures. Now, I'm sure you've seen it on TV or whenever you watch the news, you get a lot of people that work in politics it use hand gestures and guess what? A lot of them do it naturally. But I can tell you now what awful lot of people are trained on how to do this, but why went up when you train somebody to use their hands? Well, again, it comes down to appearing confident in what you're doing and this is how it relates into our presentation. I'm not saying that you need to be over the top and extremely flamboyant with unnecessary hand gestures because it just looks unnatural. What I'm saying is, is don't be afraid to use them if you want to. I'm not saying that you need to use them if it doesn't feel natural. But if you want, be free and expressive because it's a good thing. If I sit here and I taught you and I've got my hands in my pockets or maybe I've got my hands here in front of me. And I can talk to you about hand gestures and posture. And I could talk about how it improves things and makes your presentation flow better and it makes you look more confident. That's great. My word sound good, my tone is on point, but there's just something missing. And it's this, it's just this that helps things flow better. And guess what? It's not just about your audience. Again, it reflects back to yourself when you are able to be more expressive, you able to be a lot more free and your performance and your delivery. Feel better about what you're doing. And again, the better we can feel, the better we can deliver outperformance, our speech, and our presentation. So what I would love you to do is just practice with yourself in the mirror using hand gestures. They don't have to be overly excessive. They have to feel natural, but try and utilize them where you can't because they are a fantastic tool, not just at making you look more confident in what you're doing, but making you feel better and allowing you to flow with a presentation a lot more smoothly because you can be more expressive. The final thing that this is really good for is because yes, I'm not going to lie to you. Being animated, attract attention when you watch people on stage. Maybe you're going to watch it there to show, or maybe you're actually watching a presentation. Nine times out of 10 was a curiosity that we have as human beings. If we stood still like this, maybe I'll say a few interesting points. But if I say those points now I'm a lot more animated. People are more engaged with what I'm doing. If you've got a very long presentation that's 30, 40 minutes long, and you don't really have many hand gestures I'm not seeing is going to be bad. But guess what? If you've got a lot in there and you able to keep things going and animated. People are going to be more engaged and consistently engaged with what you're doing. So go ahead and give this a practice and we'll move on to the next exercise. 9. Imagiantion: Imagination is hugely underrated in my opinion, because as adults we don't really use it enough, especially when it comes to presentations and public speaking. We tend to use imagination quite a lot when we're younger. And to be honest with you, I don't think we should ever stop because it's a fantastic tool for us to utilize. What do I mean by imagination? Well, imagination for your presentation. How do you imagine this thing going? I'm not just talking about the presentation in itself. I'm talking about every fine little detail of the speaking engagement that you have coming up. So for example, you're going into a room and you may be at a function where you have this liver presentation on behalf of your company, right? You go into the room, but what do you recognize about this room? Can you think of how the audience members look? What about the reactions and facial expressions of the audience members while she was delivering your presentation. Can you maybe see out the setup of the room? What's it like? What does the rumen of like, what does this space and environment around you that like, can you pick up any sense of smell or any kind of feeling for the room that you were actually in and put about how you feel. How are you feeling? What do you dress like? What are you wearing? How do you appear on stage or in the room? What are you looking like? How are you talking like all these things that you can think of a so important, why they important? Because the more you can practice it and the more you can imagine it in your mind. When you actually come to do it, you're probably going to feel a lot more confident because you've got a lot of associated feelings from your imagination that you've thought of and you're bringing that with you to your actual presentation. Now, I always say, do try and be positive with this. Think of all the positive things that think of all the things that are good and bring it with you. The more you can practice, the better. It may be the case that you go into a room and it's absolutely nothing like you imagined. That's okay. Because it's the associated feelings that we want when we go in there and we're thinking about what we're, what we're going to go into, what we expect if we can think about, okay, well, how am I feeling in this moment bob could do I, do I appear excited on why do I look confident? What about what I'm wearing? How do I appear on stage? If we can think of all of those things beforehand or we can go over it as many times now head nine times out of ten when it actually comes to it, we're going to fill a lot more competent and we're going to bring those associated feelings with us to consciously when we go and deliver our presentation. That's why imagination is so important. It's like preparing them, pre-planning, even though we haven't done it yet, we can prepare ourselves adequately, were able to visualize what's going to happen before we take place, even if the actual thing isn't exactly like what we've imagined, it's the associated feelings that we want to bring over into the actual presentation. So the more detail, the better. Again, take some notes, write it down every detail you possibly can. The audience, how did they look? How did they react? What do they appear like? How do you appear? What do you dress like? What is the room that like? What does the environment look like? Can you imagine how the presentation is going to go? What you're going to say, how you sound, how you look. There's so many things that you can think of, and I really encourage you to get every detail you possibly can. Imagination is so important and a massive saw that we can freely utilize in preparation for our presentations. 10. Tone: The next thing that we're going to look at is probably one of the most important things in this course. And that's delivery and tone. Delivery and tone essentially really is everything. You may be saying the most important information that anybody's ever heard and they retire lives. It could be of great benefit to their lives and they could change their life forever. Unfortunately, if you don't say it with a good tone and good delivery, nine times out of 10, they're not always going to remember what you're saying. And I'm sure you've seen it time and time again. People say this is a very important thing that you must listen to, but It's really not even what they say that you really engage in this. And two, it's the way they say that makes you listen. So this is why tone is so important. Having tone that engages people is going to keep people on board and it's going to get people to believe in what you're saying. You can't expect anybody to invest in what you're saying and believe in you and believe in what you're saying. If you don't have good tone, if you appear to have a tone that's not exciting, maybe it's quite boring, or maybe it's a tone that's just not confident and it just appears like you don't really believe in what you're seeing yourself. And it's very kind of slow, maybe quite methodical, but it's very low and it appears very unconfident. Well, that's not really going to help people. But if I took like this, I can engage with you in this way and I could talk to you about something that I'm very passionate about. I have a lot of emotion and a good tone behind it. Well, you're more likely to listen, right? It's very simple, but almost very, very, very, very underrated. And it's super-duper effective that I really recommend you practice. Tone really, really varied considerably during your course, our presentation. I'm not saying that you need to be consistently over the top and really, really, really excited throughout a whole presentation. You can afford to change things up. In fact, that's kinda what keeps people engaged with what you're doing. It's having a variety of different tones. You can play off, maybe for certain parts, you can hit the excitement and you can go up a little bit when you talk to you about something that's really exciting and you're super passionate about when it's something that's more subtle and slightly more maybe emotionally and important. You can afford to tone it down a little bit. You can still keep people engaged by you just have a different warmth to your town. And it's the way that you say it. Maybe something that's very serious. You can afford to take breaks and you can have a tone that is a lot more serious and a lot more firm. Can you see the difference between what I did there with each of those different takes and tone, small kind of changes. But they all make a huge, massive difference to what I'm doing. There's nothing wrong with being quiet and there's nothing wrong with being slightly reserved with your tone. But make sure you insert it when it's necessary and don't be overly excessive. It's all about balance with tone. It's all about finding balance with each different tone that you have. Too much of anything is not good for anybody. But I can assure you if you've got good variation in tone consistently throughout the course of your presentation, That's perfect. And that's what you're looking for because it's gonna keep people engaged with what you're doing. And it gives you that freedom and flexibility to offer that variation to keep things going. 11. Voice exercise: The next exercise I'm gonna take you through is mainly a voice exercise. Again, it's going to focus on our projection, but also our tone and vocal flexibility. Extremely important aspects that we have to consider whenever we're performing in delivering presentations, as I said to you before, is all about being versatile and being able to hit certain points at certain times and never staying in the same place for too long when it comes to your tone and protection. So follow me. What I want you to do is I'm going to give you a simple phrase and you're just going to follow along with it. And I'm going to take it the different levels and you've got to copy it. So this is the phrase, yeah, neon, neon, neon. Very low, nice and deep and low baritone voice. Neon, neon, neon, neon. Good. Then we're gonna take it up a level to locate sacred objects and nuts. Neon, neon. Neon, neon, yeah. And if you want, you could smell with j because it's going to help you get a higher. Yeah, Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Good. Then we're gonna take it off. Just another not sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Good, good, good, good, good, good. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And now we're going to take it up. Don't be afraid to hit this doorway. You can't let it go. Nodes engineer, like this. Good One more time. We're going to come all the way back down. Lower birds have a voice. Good. Again, it's really outlet. It's quite different exercise that I'm sure you probably haven't done before. But there's method to the madness and please do continue to practice. It continues to build that flexibility within the vocal ranges. It's really going to help you when it comes to your presentation skills. And it's going to allow you to grow and expand more with options that you have in terms of your vocal flexibility, the facial expression exercises the bubble gum. Excellent activity for you to do. If you can do these activities, which is five minutes per day, I promise you you're going to see some improvement during your presentation and for your preparation.