HOW TO BE A BETTER SPEAKER

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TIP 1: SHOW YOUR PASSION!

Yep. That's right. You are not a robot so show some emotions and let your passion be felt when you speak. When you speak with passion, your message has vibrancy and colour. It pulls in your audience and keeps them focused on you and what you are saying and how you are saying it. It is the HOW you say it that separates you from the regular speakers.

Passion brings your message to life by showing that you are fully invested in what you are talking about and your emotions convey the message appropriately.

Please NOTE to watch out to not be TOO passionate and overpower the content and put some people off. Your emotions should enliven your delivery but should not overshadow it to the point people forget about what you are saying quickly. It's all about BALANCE when speaking with PASSION.

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TIP 2: MAKE DELIBERATE MOVEMENTS!
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You are not a statue so don't act like one. Motion makes the brain active and keeps you energized and pumped up. When you add passion to your speaking, you engage your audience with your movement.

When you're walking around during your presentation or making hand gestures or tilting your neck to one side to get people to pause and reflect on a particular point, always remember to move MINDFULLY to keep the audience captivated but not distracted.

Side note: If you are dramatic by nature, you can get away with it by knowing when to bring on the drama and when to tone it down. I sing and dance sometimes because I am good at it. We all have our unique personalities so use it to aid and not overpower.

Add impact to your presentation by making deliberate movements. Infuse your personality into your presentation and let people fall in love with the authentic you.
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TIP 3: THE POWER OF THE VOICE!

Your voice is a powerful tool and if used right can touch lives in a positive way. Passionate speakers' voices capture their audience's attention from the first minute. Their voices are clear, commanding and alluring.

Your voice doesn't have to be loud to be powerful but it must possess some intensity for it to make your audience pay attention. You can modulate your voice pitch to add some drama in order to highlight key points of passion without overwhelming your audience.

Change your tone at key places in your talk and then fall back into a more relaxed voice later once emphasis has been delivered. You are like a Music Conductor, wielding your microphone as your voice as the instrument that directs, navigates and controls your audience's attention throughout your presentation to keep them attentive throughout.

That is the Power of a Passionate Speaker.

TIP 4: KEEP IT FLOWING AND INTERESTING!

Have you ever met anyone who doesn't like to hear a good story? Well, me neither.

A passionate speaker always structure their presentations to have compelling and relevant stories incorporated into their delivery. Stories help make your presentation more relatable and pass your message along more effectively.

This mix of passion and substance will keep your audience engaged. A passionate speaker is a talented DJ who is fully immersed in the music but has an innate ability to know when to mix things up.

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TIP 5: PRECISION AND CLARITY!

Don't you just hate it when people speak and it doesn't make much sense because their presentation was not properly structured and the points were delivered in a messy order?

When speaking passionately, ensure your points are LOGICALLY flowing from one to the other, continuously emphasising the main point you want to get across. Constrain yourself to never go off tangent but allow your personality and professionalism to shine through in delivering a passionate presentation that MAKES SENSE.

Passion is great and when you can find the right balance in your presentation, magic happens.

You need to bring some magic to your presentation by preparing first before you take the stage. It is similar to what athletes and performers do to psych themselves up before they perform or compete.

Think about what you're going to say and how you are going to say it; strongly, fully and with all your physical being. After all, that is where passion originates from.

Experience the emotions, inhabit it, revel in it, soak it up and unleash the PASSION. Always begin with enough enthusiasm, build it up and END with a BANG.

That is how you BECOME A PASSIONATE SPEAKER!!!!

Q: Which speaker(s), in any field, comes to your mind when you think about being passionate and a great storyteller too?

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