Use your voice expressively and meaningfully.

Find small ways to speak in public in your everyday life

1. Write out your fears and goals.
2. Record yourself talking about your public speaking goals.
3. Record your talk 10 more times and critique each take.
4. Tell a story to a trusted friend.
5. Go to a talk and ask one question.
6. Post videos of yourself speaking on social media.

1. Minimize the uhs, ums, likes and y’knows.
2. Enunciate words clearly. Don’t mumble or garble them.
3. Speak with appropriate loudness and speed. Consider audience, place and topic.
4. Use variations in speed, inflections, and force to enhance your meaning and hold audience attention.

10 top tips for delivering an impromptu speech

• Be confident – Look up, breathe deeply, say to yourself something positive – ‘I’m going to be fine’.
• Focus on the audience – Every presentation, including impromptu ones, need to be audience centric.
• Less is more – Avoid the tendency to ramble.

Thrillist Explorers

1. Visual aids are your friends. Even if what you’re discussing doesn’t necessitate aids, bring in something to display beside or behind you.
2. Repeat yourself.
3. Know your speech.
4. Control your pauses.
5. Create contingency plans.
6. Speak to one person at a time.
7. Make it personal.
8. Blow off steam beforehand.

To appear confident:

1. Maintain eye contact with the audience.
2. Use gestures to emphasise points.
3. Move around the stage.
4. Match facial expressions with what you’re saying.
5. Reduce nervous habits.
6. Slowly and steadily breathe.
7. Use your voice aptly.

• 15 Smart Things to Say That Will Reassure People You’re a True Professional. Simple phrases, confidently uttered; confidence gained.
• “Here’s our expertise.”
• “This is the plan.”
• “I’ll find out.”
• “That’s not possible.”
• “You can count on me.”
• “Here are the challenges.”
• “Follow me.”

1. 6 Tips To Speak With More Clarity And Confidence. No doubt you’ve got a good message – maybe even a great message.
2. Big words don’t make you look smart.
3. Speak more slowly.
4. Write well.
5. You’re not an airplane.
6. Don’t use sub-clauses.
7. Keep things in perspective.