Having the ability to prepare for a speech in a short time is one of the most critical skills that makes you an excellent public speaker. Besides that, this article is about one important technique that can immediately make your speech much better.
The reason why you have fear of public speaking is because you are wondering how people are thinking about you. But most of your audiences sitting there do not care about you at all. They are interested in themselves.
Meanwhile, you keep on worrying how to become a hero in their eyes. The main thoughts make you become anxious. Instead, think about how to make your audience turn into heroes. And that is why they appear in your presentation.
Yes, they’ve come to hear you say so long to become a hero in your eyes. They do not care how great you are. They only care about how you make them become their best.
In order to eliminate the fear in you. You need to direct your thoughts to your audience, seek to make them feel they are true heroes.
Make your audience the heroes in your presentation.
For this, you need to learn some information about your audience. Pay attention to the achievements they have done and give praise for them. When you have enough information about the audience, you will know how to make them feel that they are important.
Your mission is to provide experience to your audience so that they really involved in that experience.
But how to provide experience in public speaking?
By telling your stories, your audience will put themselves as the protagonist in each story you tell. Unconsciously, they will remind themselves of their own life story.
Storytelling is how you take the audience on a journey in which each of them is the main character, a hero of the world. If you make the audience feel they are important, that is, you’re telling a story successfully.
Techniques of storytelling
Here, I share with you some of the techniques of storytelling so that you can apply immediately on the upcoming presentation.
- There is a simple narrative technique that anyone can apply it in the form of storytelling about a journey. It will go like this. The protagonist of the story at some points in his or her lives decided to step out of his or her comfort zone to experience new things. And through which he or she has learned something wise and shared as lessons for many people.
- Or another way is you use many stories unrelated to each other but they are at the same time prove your single statement. Listeners will have the exciting feeling because they hear many stories and more information on what you want to say.
- In addition, you should note the following principles while telling stories. That is you have to use the real story. The main character in the story is a man of flesh and bone. It could be you or someone in real life. You can mention some names about people, place, number or true historical event or describe in details some activities and express your thought about that story.
- Next, animate the story by introducing the conversation and you will adjust your voice so expressive as characters are talking in situations of the story.
- The last principle is to really put yourself in the audience’s point of view. Always ask yourself if the audience wants to hear those messages from your story. If you are a listener, how do you want a narrator to tell a story so that you feel attractive?
In short, as the article mentioned above. The main reason that you are nervous when speaking is that you always worry about how you became a hero in the eyes of your audience. But the fact is so opposite. Those who come to hear you giving a speech are those who want you to actually make them feel like heroes. They want to know how important they are through what you share.
So let’s put the focus on the audience by telling stories related to themselves.
While telling a story, try to roleplay and tells real characters, a true story so that the audience can put themselves into that story as if they were heroes conquering the challenges.
Mastering these principles, your presentation will make significant progress and people will be amazed at your ability remarkably and surprisingly improved.