Below is knowledge I’ve gained as a member of toastmasters, which is an organization that gives people training on public speaking. My recommendations come from experience as a communicator and additional training.

• Maintain eye contact. Maybe rest your eyes on one person for a couple of seconds.
• Make your subject matter relevant to your audience.
• Use terminology that your audience can understand, if you use acronyms they don’t know, define them.
• Do not speak too quickly. you can do this  by inserting pauses for your audience to absorb an important point.
• You want your audience to relate to you.
• Your speech can be embellished  by
• humor
• personal stories
• facts
• Add variety in the pacing of your speech.
• Mix up the length of your sentences and content.
• Body language is essential for effective communication. Hands movement, re-positioning of the body, and eye contact are a few.
• Voice modulation can depict the importance of an issue.
• Often if you lower your voice, it will cause your listener to look up and pay attention.
• Your attire depicts your professionalism.
• If you give a slide presentation, do not keep pages up on screen. Your audience will read the text instead of listening to you.
• To add variety in your slide presentation, maybe consider adding a humorous cartoon or personal story that relates to the topic or a picture that enhances a personal story.
• You text on screen needs to be big enough to be read from the back of the room.
• Do not crowd your displays with a lot of text. Concentrate upon short paragraphs and key phrases. Graphs can be useful.

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