Public Speaking - Improve your Effective Verbal Communication

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

In this segment, Rakesh will explain how to get better at public speaking.

Some of the key takeaways from the video above can be summarised as follows: 

• Public speaking brings out all of your fears to the surface, and you need to address them in order to overcome them.
• 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 need to go through two more zones: the fear zone and the learning zone.
• You can train your mind to break out of your comfort zone.
• You need to think of public speaking as a performance. This will help you improve significantly.
• The way in which people engage in oral communication differs in different situations. For example, the way you talk to your friends is quite different from the way you talk to your boss or parents.
• You need to work on the verbal as well as non-verbal aspects of oral communication and prepare for a presentation by familiarising yourself with the audience, by planning in advance, overcoming your fears and anxiety, and practising every day.
• You need 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 in English. 

Now that you have learnt about some general practices that you can follow to get better at public speaking, in the next segment, you will learn about the various elements of online communication involves and how you can master it.