know well, but it’s important for your audience to know it is the center of gravity, that your goal is to communicate with them. Projection: This is related to the audience focus and enhances your ability to be there.” The goal here is take control of the room with your personal “out presence. You’re not doing this if your voice can’t be heard. You’re not doing this if you’re body language is stiff and your voice monotone. You have to have an appropriate degree of intensity in order to project effectively. You need to have a sense of mission about your message. It’s the difference between a river running in spring when its fast and full or in summer when it’s dry and slow. Expressiveness: Speakers who are expressive use their voice and their body language to shape their ideas. They speak loud or soft, fast or slow in a natural spontaneous way that helps the audience to know what’s important and what’s just background information. A very important technique to learn is not to speak as if every word you say has the same value. Some ideas are more important than others, and that should be reflected by the non-verbals, such as voice intonation, facial expression, hand gesture, etc Fluency: The opposite of fluency is a choppy, halting delivery and garbled, overly convoluted syntax in the sentence you speak. You should attain an pace that gives the audience time to assimilate what you have to say and which varies according to what is appropriate in terms of the expressiveness you’re trying to achieve at any given moment in your presentation. It’s ok to stumble here and there. It’s ok to let slip an or or some other filler “um” “uh” word. But have your group give you feedback about whether you do it too frequently.
know well, but it’s important for your audience to know it is the center of gravity, that your goal is to communicate with them. Projection: This is related to the audience focus and enhances your ability to be “out there.” The goal here is take control of the room with your personal presence. You’re not doing this if your voice can’t be heard. You’re not doing this if you’re body language is stiff and your voice monotone. You have to have an appropriate degree of intensity in order to project effectively. You need to have a sense of mission about your message. It’s the difference between a river running in spring when its fast and full or in summer when it’s dry and slow. Expressiveness: Speakers who are expressive use their voice and their body language to shape their ideas. They speak loud or soft, fast or slow in a natural spontaneous way that helps the audience to know what’s important and what’s just background information. A very important technique to learn is not to speak as if every word you say has the same value. Some ideas are more important than others, and that should be reflected by the non-verbals, such as voice intonation, facial expression, hand gesture, etc Fluency: The opposite of fluency is a choppy, halting delivery and garbled, overly convoluted syntax in the sentence you speak. You should attain an pace that gives the audience time to assimilate what you have to say and which varies according to what is appropriate in terms of the expressiveness you’re trying to achieve at any given moment in your presentation. It’s ok to stumble here and there. It’s ok to let slip an “um” or “uh” or some other filler word. But have your group give you feedback about whether you do it too frequently.
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