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Techniques Used to Improve Your Communication Skills

11/29/2010

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If you are asked to speak to a particular audience, you are usually given enough time to prepare for your speech. Make sure you use that time to know your audience well in order to come out with a great material that would be suitable for the said audience. Ideally, you would need to become very familiar and well-informed about the subject of your speech so that you will be able to deliver it with confidence. In other words, you should go beyond delivering based only on your limited knowledge. On the other hand, if you are asked to deliver an impromptu speech on a subject that you are already most familiar with, you can use the basic formula for delivering a great speech. This means that you should be able to come up with a wonderful introduction, a well delivered body of your speech, and an excellent closing with such smooth transition.

Would you like to improve your public speaking skills? Here are the techniques you can use to improve your communication skills:

1. Work on that voice. If you want to become effectively listened to, you should have a good voice that would somehow give justice to the material of your speech. Powerful communicators often possess a powerful voice that commands the audience's respect and attention.

2. Work on your gestures. When you deliver a speech, you are not just going to stand there and speak, are you? Somehow, you need to use gestures to accentuate your speech. However, you should be careful not to exaggerate on your gestures to the point that they would already become distractions instead of adding value to your speech.

3. Master by rehearsing your speech. Try to master and practice your speech. You can use an audio-video recorder to record your voice as well as your gestures. You can use the recorded video to find out how you can improve your gestures as well as the delivery of your speech. Make sure you let someone else objectively critique on your speech and ask for their opinion and ideas on how you can better improve it.

4. Watch and listen to videos of great speakers. Your purpose for watching videos of great speakers should not be to copy their piece or to imitate their styles but to get inspired to learn good ideas on the qualities that have made them effective and powerful communicators.

5. Get proper coaching from professional speakers. If you really want to hone your craft as an effective speaker and a powerful communicator, you can get proper coaching from professional speakers who are willing to share their public speaking secrets for a reasonable fee. You should be able to learn from the best and possibly even do better than them in the future for as long as you are willing to fine tune your communication skills and work your way to become a powerful communicator.

Find out how Jeff Vankooten's communication workshops and public speaking seminars can help you improve your communication skills. Visit http://www.jeffreyspeaks.com today to receive a FREE special report on the 7 Essentials Every Speaker Needs To Know.

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