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Since a speaker needs someone to speak to, keeping your audience’s attention is half of the job. This can be a challenge depending on who you’re speaking to, but you can have them glued to your everywhere if you know how to hit the right chords; or what chords not to hit…
Here are a list of the top 3 things that will take away from your speeches and hinder from your success:
1) Too much information for your audience to absorb. Know who your audience will be and adjust your speech accordingly. Don’t throw too many ‘new’ things at your audience and don’t try using a large vocabulary to sound sophisticated.
2) Lack of mental stimulation. It takes some effort from the public speaker to keep your audience’s mind engaged and interacting. Visual aid is a great way to keep your audiences attention. Or try moving around the stage and animating yourself through your hands and arms.
3) Noise distractions. No matter what is going on in the room or venue, you need to be the focus of attention. Don’t allow your voice to be overpowered by something else; raise your volume and add enthusiasm to your voice to draw your audience back to you.
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