How to Get Better in Public Speaking

Public speaking is not too strenuous. However, it requires routine practice to master this skill. In order to hone your public speaking skills, you need to get comfortable with oral communication, specifically in front of a considerable crowd. If you put all these aspects in conjunction, you will surely be able to master public speaking. In the corporate world too, public speaking is cardinal, and this is why it is important to work on it.

In this segment, Rakesh will explain to you how you can get better at public speaking. Let's get started.

Great! That was a helpful video. Let's summarise the key takeaways from the video: 

• Public speaking brings out all your fears to the surface, which you need to address to overcome.
• In order to tackle these fears, you need to get out of your comfort zone and reach the growth zone.
• Before you can reach the growth zone, you will need to go through two more zones: the fear zone and the learning zone.
• Train your mind to break out of your comfort zone.
• Think of public speaking as a performance. It will help you to improve significantly.
• The way of oral communication differs in different situations. For example, how you talk to your friends is quite different from how you talk to your boss or parents.
• Work on your verbal as well as non-verbal aspects of oral communication and prepare for a presentation by getting familiar with the audience, preparing in advance, overcoming your fears and anxiety, and practising every day.
• Do not worry about being grammatically correct in English. First, work on your public speaking skills in your vernacular dialect and then you can practise and get better at English too.  

Now that you have understood the practices that will help you get better at public speaking, in the next segment, you will learn what online communication involves and how you can master it.