What Are the Best Tips to Improve Presentation Skills?

Speech skills are the art of speaking. Mr. Bai Jun, a well-known youth lecturer and personal speech coach for political and business leaders, once commented on speech skills. The lofty thoughts, sense of mission, height, and depth are the Tao of speech, the so-called core foundation of speech energy. And speech skills are strategies that allow speech power to rise from the ground up.

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Speech skills are the art of speaking. Personal speech coach of China's famous young speaker and political and business leader

The improvement of skills requires a lot of training and review to continuously improve the technical strength to artistic. Therefore, speech skills are the skills that speech lovers must learn and hone.

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1. Prepare for the speech

This includes understanding the audience, being familiar with the subject and content, collecting materials and materials, preparing speeches, and conducting appropriate exercises.

2. Choose a good speaker

A good speaker includes the following conditions: (1) sufficient authority; (2) the speaker has strong speech skills and skills; (3) the enthusiasm of the speaker; (4) the reason and wisdom of the speaker; 5) Speaker status

3. use

-Speech in a broad sense: Any speech made by a majority of people as an audience can be called a speech.

-Speech in a narrow sense: A form of spoken language that expresses one's opinion on a problem or event in public. With the help of spoken language and situational language, the audience can explain matters, express opinions, express feelings, put forward viewpoints and elaborate viewpoints in order to reach a kind of spoken expression that appeals to the audience.

Speaker: The subject of the speech event, the source of the information.

· Speaker's self-cultivation theory self-cultivation moral knowledge self-cultivation temperament self-cultivation

From content: political lectures academic lectures management lectures communicative lectures

Divided by form: propositional speech impromptu speech debate speech

From the style points: excitement, deep, rigorous, lively

Considerations for presentation skills

The opening remarks are important, but do not adapt too long. The focus is on throwing questions or intriguing.

Stand up and talk, always facing the audience instead of the screen, taking care of the entire conference room.

You need to observe the audience s response to what you are saying, stimulate their interest, and keep their attention.

Both speech and intonation are important, fast should be fast, heavy should be heavy, and the pause should be paused appropriately.

Interaction with the audience is required, but it is not suitable for too much, especially when speaking.

Gestures and small movements should not be too much, and body movements should pay attention to the coordination of the content.

Tips: How to maintain the skills of the speech mentality

Speech is an exercise process. No one is able to speak very well at once. Here are some practical skills for speech:

1, one or two deep breathing method.

Many friends know that deep breathing can be used when you are nervous, but many friends will say that deep breathing is not useful. In fact, deep breathing is useful, but many of us have not used the deep breathing technique, or do not know how to do deep breathing. tension. Provide everyone with a simple method of deep breathing: one or two deep breathing method.

"One or two" is the time. One unit of time is used for inhalation, four units of time are used for holding the breath, and two units of time are used for exhalation. This deep breathing method is called a one-two-two deep breathing method, generally one unit. The time is one second. In this way, we can generally overcome our tension well.

2. Distract attention method.

Perform oral exercises to relax facial muscles. You can perform a series of oral movements such as rubbing, rubbing your face, closing your lips, turning your lips, turning your lips, popping your lips, turning your left and right cheeks, turning your tongue, opening your mouth to make a beep, making faces, etc. to divert your attention, To break through your tension.

3, do not write a speech, write an outline.

Many friends will write down a complete speech densely, and then go back to it. When they start to speak, they will become nervous, fearing that they will forget the draft. The more nervous they are, the more they will forget, and the more they will forget, the more nervous they will become. . Therefore, it is not recommended that you write a complete speech, but write an outline. Write down the main points you want to say on a small note, and then think about what you want to say at each point. This will not forget the draft, because there is no speech at all, and you will not know what you want to say.

4, pinch a small thing or push the wall to release pressure.

In many cases, the tension cannot be calmed down because there is no place to release this tension. So if you are really nervous on the stage, you can also try to pinch a small object in your hand. When you are very nervous, pinch it and force yourself. All the pressure is released. Pushing the wall is the same reason, it is a release of pressure.

5. Practice, practice, prepare, prepare, prepare (on the car, on the road)

A student told me before that the teacher was really nervous when I was on the stage. You taught me what to do. I asked him, "Are you prepared before every speech?" He said, "No, I'm too busy, I don't have time to prepare." I said, "It's not that bad if you're not nervous. If you're not ready, come on stage, who It s going to be stressful, so all you have to do is get ready before coming on stage. "

Many students will say that company affairs are usually busy, and there is really no time to prepare or practice the content of the speech. Actually, it's not that you don't really have time, but you don't know how to make good use of time. For example, some time ago I was training in Shanghai. Every time I got on the train, I began to lecture and practice "The best partners in the world, good afternoon everyone ..." After arriving at Shanghai South Railway Station, I took the subway. When I got on the subway, I started "The best friends in the world, good afternoon everyone ........." Of course, I didn't make a sound, but just silently thought in my heart. After arriving at the venue, there was about an hour, I sat In the backstage lounge, I started "The best companions in the world, good afternoon everyone ...", and that's it. I practiced at least three times that day before the lecture. In fact, there are many opportunities to practice in this way. Maybe everyone speaks 5-10 minutes. As long as there is a gap time, you can practice.

Practice more, and naturally you won't be nervous.

6. Look for support.

When we stand on the stage to speak, there will always be some supportive visions and non-supportive visions. At this time, if we feel nervous, we will look at the supportive visions and see their supportive visions of ourselves. It is conceivable that I speak well, so the more I speak, the more powerful I am. The result is really much better than I expected.

7. Increase the volume appropriately.

In the course of his public speech, properly increasing the volume of his speech can also overcome his own tension to a certain extent.

8. Establish a self-confidence anchor.

There are many things around our lives. When we see them, we will have different moods. Things like this that stimulate special feelings, whether good or bad, are called heart anchors.

The depth of the heart anchor is profound, and some of it is simple. It may be a sentence, a few words, an action, or something that allows us to see, hear, think, sniff, or taste, and change our hearts in a blink of an eye. Feeling. This is why when we see the national flag, we quickly feel a strong national and national emotion, because the colors and patterns on it are closely related to this emotion.

We can build a heart anchor for ourselves to overcome tension, imagine that we are very confident, make ourselves feel full of strength, and then silently say "I am the best!", And then repeat this process continuously, as long as we are silent Say to yourself, "I'm the best!" Immediately, I will be full of confidence and strength.

9. As long as you have the opportunity to practice on stage, immediately rush to the stage.

In normal work and life, there may be some opportunities to speak in front of the public, sometimes it is optional or not, we must remember: as long as there is a chance to practice, rush to the stage immediately! This time not to speak well, but to be able to speak well at critical moments! One minute on stage, ten years off the stage, and without ten times the effort, don't expect extravagant performance.

Speech gesture

Gesture language has a variety of complex meanings. Generally speaking, it can be divided into four categories to express the speaker's emotions, making his visual and concrete gestures affective gestures, also known as emotional gestures. Gestures that represent abstract ideas are called symbolic gestures. The shape-shaped object gives the listener a specific, image-like gesture called an image gesture, also known as an iconic gesture. A gesture that indicates a specific object is called a pointing gesture.

Some people have summarized that there are several types of common speech gestures, such as lifting, pressing down, and translating. Among them, there are two types of one-handed and two-handed. Each can also be used for fist, palm, elbow flexion, etc. Hands up, forward, and inward often express hopeful, successful, and affirmative content. Hands down, backwards, and outwards often express negative content such as criticism, contempt, and negation.

For example, splitting your hands in the air means "deterministic and decisive", slightly shaking your fingers to mean "contempt" or "don't care", spreading your hands out means "helpless" and so on. With his right hand clenching his fist, he split from above to express his indignation and determination.

The gesture of speech is very particular, but it is not designed by making cars behind closed doors, but on the pulpit. With the content of the speech, the emotions of the audience, and the atmosphere on the field, under the control of the speaker s emotions, it naturally jets from. As for choosing single gesture or double gesture, it depends on the content requirements, the size of the venue, the number of listeners, and the strength of the expression.

Gesture language has no fixed pattern, no prescribed angle, is not restricted by ancestors, and does not need to be "directed". It is like a gymnastic action, it is by no means covered by a mold, it needs to be created by itself.

But for beginners, there will always be a process of imitation. For example, when listening to a lecture or watching a movie, pay attention to figure out and do some "accumulation", so that you can easily come to the lecture.