Monday, August 4, 2008

Four Keys to Building Audience Rapport While Public Speaking

By James Malinchak


Public speaking is not a skill you are born with. It is what you have to develop over time. Throughout the years, there have been many people who had a fear of public speaking, but learned the art and science of how to do it and became effective public speakers.

If the idea of speaking in public excites you, you need to learn the proper method of delivery, and all it requires. You can start by studying from the best speakers in the world. By doing so you should be able to pick up some public speaking tips. But it's going to take more that to become a great public speaker, you need commitment, determination, and a personality.

Besides getting public speaking tips, you should position yourself to obtain public speaking training. The more training you get, the better you will be. By training to be a public speaker, you will find out what works and what doesn't work. You must take time to invest in yourself and your future. The more you know the better you will be.

The four key areas of building rapport with your audience so you don't lose them can all be summed up in the following tips on public speaking:

The first key area you must be aware of is having total control over your audience - you are the speaker. Just by watching the audience and their reactions you can see whether or not they are bored. A telltale sign of bored could be either yawning or restlessness. You just need to either adjust your tone, or your style of delivery.

Your tone is the second key to building a rapport with the audience. You can simply do this just by getting more excited or raising your voice. The audience can't help but look up when they hear excitement in your voice, they must know what all the excitement is about.

The third key method is by engaging the audience to perform an exercise or some routine. Ask your audience to take part in an exercise, ask questions, allow the audience to relate their own stories, share comments, or allow for other forms of interaction. The main concern for you is to not let your speech become monotonous or boring. If you see your audience is getting restless or is becoming bored with what you are saying, you need to make adjustments quickly.

The fourth key method is to get your audience's attention by relating a bad situation you had in your life and how you turned it around. This way you showed how you overcame your obstacles to become successful. Your audience will eat it up. Because this will give them an opportunity to ask questions of you.

As long as you get the proper training, learn from the experts, and develop proper delivery you can become very successful in public speaking.

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