Do’s and Don’ts
Do
- Silently receive your listeners for at least one deep breath before you speak.
- Speak only to individuals, lingering with each person for three to five seconds
- before moving on.
- Speak in short sentences, pausing regularly to really connect with individuals.
- Leave longer silences between important points to let your words sink in and to
- give your listeners a chance to digest the information.
- Stand relatively still and move slightly toward individuals as you speak to them.
- Use relaxing humor based on your own experiences, if you use humor at all.
- Stand there and receive your applause at the end of your talk, taking it to heart
Don’t
- Start talking immediately to cover up anxiety or project “confidence.”
- Speak to “the group” as a whole, darting or scanning your eyes to make
- surface contact with many.
- Connect your sentences with “and” or “so,” and pull away from
- eye contact in transition between points.
- Cover up natural silences with “ums” and “ahs,” rush to the next point to avoid “dead air,” or switch your attention inward to prepare the next sentence
- Pace from side to side to ” cover the audience,” while making staged gestures.
- Tell jokes, be clever, quick, glib, offhand or cute.
- Walk off “modestly” as you are being applauded.
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