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How to Practice For Public Speaking Success by Anil Kumar Singh, Senior Consultant, McKinsey & Company

How to Practice For Public Speaking Success

By : Anil Kumar Singh, Senior Consultant, McKinsey & Company
Industry : Management & Strategy Consulting Functional Area : Communication
Keywords :

Success

Practice

Presentation

Discussion

Corporate Presentation

Seminars

Public Speaking

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Public speaking success unfortunately doesn't just happen by itself. Practicing your speech in advance of the big day isn't optional - it's essential!

We all sound very different inside our heads than we do to others.

That weird sound on the tape recorder that doesn't sound like your voice?

Well, actually that's how it sounds to everyone else when it's not filtered through the internal acoustics of our heads. You need to gain an understanding of how your presentation will sound to others.

For example, often our nerves make us speed up our speech - but presenters often don't realise by just how much because they're brains are also running a bit fast. Listening to yourself can help you to gauge what speed you talk so that you can slow it down to a more manageable pace for your audience. Focus too on where you are placing emphasis on certain words, where you can pause for dramatic effect,

There are some things you can do to help your practice no end. So what are these ways?


 Top Comment : veguru vijayakumar babu   | 07 25 2008 04:57:30 +0000
Good advice. I committed the same mistake of speaking with speed in my initial guest lectures long back.
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Public Speaking could be mastered only through practice, more you practice best you become. While practice you learn new techniques.
  Commented by  Devi Kaladeen, Audit Manager, Health Sector Development Unit    | 03 17 2009 20:04:46 +0000
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Practice makes perfect. Have to be brave after about one or two times doing public speech....the crowd/audience fright disappears.I had my share of this and I will confess it was not easy at first...to add humour....I never even say the things I had on paper...it was all out of my head. Now it is different and easy...just be precise.
  Commented by  Ruchi Batra, HR Manager, Mosaic ITES Services Pvt. Ltd.    | 03 13 2009 21:01:42 +0000
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Most Experts agree that ideal rate of speech is between One Hundered Sixty and One Hundered Eighty Words per minute. At that rate, people who are listening to you will be able to hear and understand what you are saying.

Thus besides recording and practicing infront of mirror (which are really useful), you should ensure that you are not speaking too fast or too slow. Also, do smile, if your speech permits, as it not only helps in lowering down your anxiety but also since its contagious, it goes to your audience also :-) Above all, you should feel completely comfortable and highly confident. Once you get an expertize on this, you should practice Intonation (modulation of Voice) as well in you speech.
  Commented by  Subrato Mukherjee, Branch Manager/Regional Manager, Amkette Analytics Ltd    | 03 08 2009 14:01:37 +0000
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very good, it will be help me a great extent to overcome the shortcomimg.
  Commented by  Alok Sharma, Business Head- GENESIS BASICS- Hasbro Clothing Pvt. Ltd.    | 03 06 2009 06:26:40 +0000
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good one, forced to look back how I delivered my 1st presentation
  Commented by  Surendra Sinha, Senior Consultant, Tata Administration Services (TAS)    | 03 02 2009 14:03:42 +0000
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One cannot memorize long talks which one needs to deliver in a meeting or during public speaking. So to make your public speaking easy use bits. Bits can hold that key words that can trigger you mind and which let the information flows from one to the next so you can deliver the information without actually memorizing the long talks.

I have heard from few that if you practice in front of mirror, you could actually remember what you going to say later on. This one didn't work for me ( i forgot what I remembered)
  Commented by  Rohini Kaushal, Human Resousce Assistant, etech, Inc pvt ltd    | 01 21 2009 11:37:30 +0000
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 Nice One
  Commented by  sridhar, student, NIT wgl    | 01 19 2009 03:11:26 +0000
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nice article very helpful
  Commented by  Harshita Kesarwani, Head/VP/GM-Production/Manufacturing, Allahabad Marble Works    | 01 03 2009 16:16:38 +0000
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Good article One may learn more if she/he looks at a mirror and gives attention to the gestures along with the recorded voice.Practing it regularly would make one Good Speaker
  Commented by  Bellala Gopinatha Rao, Project Manager Promax Management Consultants    | 01 03 2009 10:02:52 +0000
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nice article thanks
  Commented by  Durga Sharma, Sales/BD Manager aMarketForce    | 12 18 2008 18:50:40 +0000
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We can always do something to gain "Attention". Possibility that what we think is interesting and speak, does not sound interesting to the public.. reasons can be that the speaker's voice is low, voice has no modulation, noise... etc.. We can regain public attention by increasing the voice, moving around a bit in the given space, use story (not long), use one liners, write on a board if available, show some visuals if possible.. 

Makes sense????
-Durga
  Commented by  sanjeev kumar dass, Head/VP/GM-Travel, KAMAT HOTELS LTD    | 12 18 2008 09:28:34 +0000
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OK ONE , COULD Have been more elaborate . otherwise public speaking is very very difficult .
  Commented by  Vinayarajan KV, Head/VP/GM-Sales Tech    | 11 25 2008 07:09:43 +0000
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good article
  Commented by  varsha ., Technical manger(QMS)    | 11 24 2008 16:43:17 +0000
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good one...
  Commented by  Mital Shah, Team Leader -(Technical), Allianz    | 07 29 2008 05:19:12 +0000
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good one
  Commented by  Achintya Kumar, Business Analyst, LearningMate Solutions Pvt Ltd    | 07 29 2008 04:40:17 +0000
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Good Article for all who wants to make perfection in Public Speaking.
  Commented by  sridhar a, Business Analyst, Shriram value services    | 07 28 2008 21:34:10 +0000
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good one
  Commented by  Anil Tadmari, Head/VP/GM-Corporate Planning/Strategy, MACCAFERRI    | 07 28 2008 07:04:09 +0000
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Good article.
Thanks
  Commented by  veguru vijayakumar babu, General Manager, Sujana Group Of Companies    | 07 25 2008 04:57:30 +0000
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Good advice. I committed the same mistake of speaking with speed in my initial guest lectures long back.
  Commented by  Rajesh Khanna, Commercial/Merchandising Manager, Greatway    | 07 25 2008 00:23:31 +0000
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Nice advise and great way of expressing. Hats off.
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Nice Article.
  Commented by  Sourav Chatterjee, IT Engineer- CMC Limited-ATata Enterprise    | 07 23 2008 00:19:13 +0000
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nice one
  Commented by  shailendra sood, Manager, ICICI BANK LTD    | 03 06 2008 01:00:46 +0000
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good article
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