SPEAKER,
SPEAKER!?
A good public speaker
is a person who willing to explain the topic clearly, nicely, smoothly, and
easy to understand. For the audience, these are not enough; you must have a
good skill to attract people to listen to you and interest to you. I had a chance
to listen to one of the famous of Thai public speaker “Jatuphol Shompuunich” or
“Aj.Shen” when I was grade 3. He spoke about Thai education, one of the boring topics
to speak, but he could tell story about this topic for an hour with some jokes and
funny tones. I was very impressed and I would like to speak as well as him.
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You know you!
First,
you should check yourself skill, how much skill of public speaking you have? Or
what are your weaknesses and straightness in public speaking? I found my straightness
that I can speak in public without shy and worried, I can speak English for
public speaking very well and I am not afraid to speak in public. My weaknesses,
I lack of skill of attracting people and entertaining people.
Searching, Reading, and writing!
Whenever
I need to speak in some topics that I am not good at them or lack of the information
about them, I will search about the topics, I will read them, and think about
how I can speak this topic in my language. I will make a little note and list
what I need to speak, but not a whole thing if you are not working on the
speech.
Speak to yourself and Watch your mirror!
Before
you speak to others, you should try to speak to yourself then try to watch yourself
in the mirror to see your facial expression, your gestures and your body
languages. I fixed myself through the mirror such as how I stand, how I smile,
and how I hold a microphone. These are how will we look to the public.
Confident is a weapon!
It
is very simple, when you need to stand and speak to the big audiences with a
lot of people look directly to you, you will feel uneasy. The way to fix this
problem is your self-confident. Presentation is how you can enjoy your
speaking, you do not need to stand still and click the slides, what you are
standing right now is your stage, you actually do whatever you like to do, try
to not standing still, but make a larger stage by walking to other sides with
slow step and nice routine. When you speak, do not speak too fast or too slow,
but speak with sometimes strong tune when the topic is important, and speak
normal with the other information.
Feedback is a gift!
When
you finish your speaking, there will be some feedbacks or comments or even
questions about you’re speaking. You should think before you answer, and
whatever feedback will be, be thankful for audience who really listen to you
and use their feedback to improve yourself for the next speaking.
Next stage makes a better better!
Some
people feel upset with their last terrible speaking, but you know what, the
more you speak the more you improve. When you did some mistakes, be thankful
for those mistakes, because you now know your weaknesses, and you will not do
them again for the next speaking. I t is hard to have your own style of
speaking, but experience will make it work. Next stage will be your new you of
speaking, everyone will see how you improve and how interest of your speaking.
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I
always have a lot of chance to speak in public, such as an orientation day of IBBA
student, class presentation or RMUTT events. A lot of people ask me how can I
speak very well in English speaking and speak in public, I said I had a luck
for collect a lot experience through being a university student. I also said I
still have a way to go; I improve and fix my weaknesses every time I come up to
speak. There will be no perfect, because you can not satisfy every audience in
the world, but you can be a good public speaker who know your strengthens and
keep it up, and know your weakness to fix it up.
