Improving your performance during public speaking and group presentations
- Three SMART goals for reducing apprehension and improving your performance during public speaking are:
Be specific on what you want to say. Specify what you want out of this talk and use as many action words as possible. Spend time on what your audience wants to hear.prepare so well that even if you forgot a specific section, there is one main thing you would like them to remember from the talk.
During the talk, ensure you stick to the topic. Public speaking is often a massive career opportunity. The presentation must be relevant to the target audience and address the need of the listener. If you go out of the topic intending to create a story to bring about comic relief, let it be relevant to the topic.
Strive to attain your objective within a certain period making your talk about being time-bound. The aim of your address must be achieved within the given time limits. Do not be a speaker who exhausts time without finishing the plotted points. It will result in an extension of talks that were meant to be shot. Consequently, boredom my set it rendering the address counterproductive.
- Three SMART goals for reducing apprehension and improving your performance during group presentation are:
The presentation should be measurable. It will help you to know when you have attained your intended objective. Be keen enough to know when this has been achieved.
During the presentation, it should be specific. Attack the topic at hand head-on to avoid irrelevancy that may dilute the intended content being delivered.
Your presentation should be within the given time brackets to provide other members from your group or other groups time to make their submissions.