“The success of your presentation will be judged not by the knowledge you send but by what the listener receives.”
Public speaking is not just standing on the stage and delivering a speech to the audience but is all about throwing your views to the audience, which impresses them.
As I mentioned earlier, everyone wants to give speeches that leave a mark on the audience. Besides that, how you look and sound is important too. I say this because the audience focuses only on you and interprets what you say through your personality, which leads them to form opinions quickly.
Now the big question arises for a speaker is: what is the most important thing at the end, or why am I here?
The answer to this is simple!! A speaker “just” needs a standing ovation, but to get this “just” is very difficult, and many of the great speakers still struggle to get this.
Have you ever imagined why you/ they do not get a standing ovation?
Don’t scratch your mind because you have the answer to this. To make it more precise, let me tell you. The main reason is that you are not able to deliver the speech that makes your listeners keen.
So, to make people attracted to you and your words, say it loudly and confidently. If you are confident and potential enough to deliver a speech, you can easily get a Standing Ovation.
To make you understand, I have mentioned a few tips that can help you prepare a better speech and get a Standing Ovation.
1. Look Confident
“One important key to success is confidence. An important key to confidence is preparation.”
Confidence is the key that is required everywhere, whether you are a person who is delivering a speech, a person who is writing a speech, or you can say confidence is a must for everyone. If you have the confidence, you can win everything, but without that, you will have nothing.
- Make eye contact: The main thing before delivering anything is making eye contact as it would help to build trust with your audience. Making eye contact makes you more confident and to the audience as well.
- Make use of Gestures: An uncomfortable speaker might unintentionally not make use of gestures or might form defensive pose without being aware that they’re doing it. Confident speakers make use of gestures to reinforce their key points. So it’s better to find areas where you can make use of gestures and use them to highlight the main points or emphasize a concept. Example: Use your fingers to count if you’re listing a number of items or stretch your arms and hands apart if you are talking about something vast or expansive.
2. Engage your Audience
Being confident is not the only thing that can make a presentation successful, but how you present is the main. Focus the presentation—tell listeners what it’s about. State the presentation’s goal or research question. Tell listeners what they’ll learn. Try focusing on the key points or make them important so that they become the highlighted points relevant to your topic. Meanwhile, you can also engage the audience by following the below-mentioned points:
- Share Personal Experience
- Describe a scene
- Tell a joke
- Ask questions to the audience
Yes! The above mentioned are the main points by which you can engage the audience. The engaging audience would make their mind active, and the speech will interest them. Interactive sessions are always successful.
3. Practice will make Speech Perfect
“Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.”
The only way to present the speech is practice. Memorizing the speech would help you deliver a successful speech, but unless you practice, you cannot confidently deliver a speech. The very best thing is to practice in front of a mirror, say it loud, practice in front of your friends or parents. You will become more confident once you practice the speech.
4. Narrate a story
Speeches become boring to the audience. Long speeches don’t interest people unless there’s a story, a joke, or an interactive session. So, narrating a story that might be your personal experience relevant to the story or telling a joke in between would make it a successful speech.
5. Add Images/ Videos
“Whoever takes-on the help of multimedia, controls the mind.”
Yes, in today’s world, multimedia plays an important role and attracting people terrifically. Preparing a speech by adding images/videos will attract people. So prepare a presentation relevant to speech so that people get more interest, and they get engaged in your speech. Watching videos would not make them feel bored or would not let them concentrate on other things; instead, they will get more interest in listening to you as they would relate the video with your speech, which is a key for a successful speech.
Conclusion
To deliver a speech which worth a standing ovation, you can use a simple formula: Pick a theme you love, help the audience connect with it, and practice until you’ve got it down.
Win the confidence of the audience, seek attention from the audience, and you can undoubtedly deliver a successful speech.
When you deliver your speech with heart and passion, wait for the standing ovation — you’ve earned it.
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