How to become a good speaker?

Here good speaker in the sense,I am not referring politicians. I am referring about professional speakers who give presentations for Engineering and B school students and for corporates too.

Nowadays presentations and guest lectures have become a vital part of our professional life. whether we like are dislike,we need to attend these sessions for atleast 2 times per month. But making these sessions interesting and informative completely depends on the speakers. When delivered properly,the benefits which we are gaining out of it is tremendous. we can get  immense knowledge on a particular topic in a maximum of 2 hours which normally will take 2 days when we search and read the same from books,net and other sources. so after listening to a lot of guest lectures and presentations,I am coming out with some suggestions which may help you to improve yourself as a great speaker.

since I am a part of audience and also writing this from audience point of view,I believe everything which I am going to say will definitely help you.

1. Make the ppt's simple and attractive and use images wherever possible.At any cost,dont make it complicate.
2. Make sure that,while preparing slides you use light colour background and dark colour text.
3. Dont add more than 8 lines per slide and dont type the entire lecture on the slide.
4. Spend some time and decide what are the things you are going to discuss under the topic and add some key points alone in the slide.
5. Keep a lot of things on your mind to speak other than the things listed on the ppt.
6. Polish your lecture or contents with a lot of real time examples and applications.
7. Touch upon the current happenings in the globe then and there.
8. While delivering presentation,crack a joke once in 10 minutes which would leave the listeners in splits.
9. If possible,add up a case study.
10. Add some video clippings to your presentations which would definitely enhance your lecture.
11. Make the session interactive and make the audience also to speak on certain areas.
12. while delivering,have a slight smile on your face and be confident.
13. Take care of your voice clarity,tone,modulation,body language and gestures.
14. Take care of your dressings too,normally formals will be the best fit for such occassions.
15. Display a lot of energy by means of your face and body language.

              This are some of my suggestions and  I hope this article will definitely help you.Having said these things,dont think that I am a great speaker.Actually I am a novice in this and trying a lot in getting myself better.I have just written it on a way how we give feedback after watching a movie.I am also going to follow all the aforementioned things in the upcoming class seminars and let's see what are the differences the above listed items are going to make in our seminars!!!

 

                                                     I will meet you soon with another article........

                                                                    THANKYOU!!!!!!!