If you are going to deliver a presentation or give a speech, you must remember these 3 elements. Your body posture, your presence in a room full of people and your voice projection to capture their attention. If you want to deliver a rousing speech, then you have to take note of all 3 elements to be successful.
Posture
This concerns with how you stand. Are your shoulders hunch, or are you standing straight with shoulders up right? Stand straight with shoulders align with your feet to show your confidence, and to show your interest and excitement in what you are about to tell the audiences. No one really wants to see someone on stage, hunching their backs, because it shows the speaker as being force or not being interested to be on stage.
Presence
Presence is sort of difficult to explain. It requires posture and projection to this element appear in you. It really depends on what you want to project to people. Do you want people to see you as a person that has confidence, professional and approachable? Or do you want others to see you as boring, uncertain of your presentation or anxious.
What kind of presence you hope to present to the people?
The best person to model is President Obama. Regardless of whether he is a good president or not, the way he delivers his speeches is one of the best I have ever seen. Look at the way he captures his audience. His hands raise up and down at the right time, his shoulders are always straight, his voice projects a certain conviction that you will be captivated by him. And the choice of words he uses can bring you on a roller coaster ride of emotions.
Projection
Your voice is important in determining whether you have successfully capture your audiences attention. People should be able to hear you clearly, understand your every word and sentence and capture the type of emotions that you want them to feel. If you are too soft, or slurring your words, it will be an uphill task to captivate anyone.
Combination of the 3 “P”s
If you can understand the importance of each of these “P”s, and combine them, you will definitely have no problems getting people to pay attention to what you have to say. The best way to learn, will be to watch videos of role models like Tony Robins (how he motivates and cracks jokes), Jay Abraham (his passion in marketing and the endless ideas flowing out) and former president Bill Clinton, or the current President Obama (watch his speeches while he was campaigning to be president).
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