Practicing delivery

Delivery is how a message is communicated orally and visually through your
use of voice and body.

Use a Conversational Style
You have probably witnessed speakers whose delivery was overly dramatic, too formal, or affected

Be animated the secret is to focus on conveying the passion you feel about your topic through your voice and
body.

Effective use of voice your voice is the sound you produce using your vocal organs. How you sound should emphasize and reinforce
the meaning you intend

Pitch is the highness or lowness of the sounds produced in your larynx

Volume is how loudly or softly you speak.

Rate is the speed at which you talk.

Quality is the tone or timbre of your voice and what distinguishes it from the voices of others

To be intelligible means to be understandable.

Effective use of body Because your audience can see as well as hear you, how you use your body also contributes to how conversational and animated your audience

Eye contact is looking directly at the people to whom you are speaking.

  1. Maintaining eye contact helps audiences concentrate on the speech.
  1. Maintaining eye contact bolsters ethos.
  1. Maintaining eye contact helps you gauge audience reaction to your ideas

Your facial expressions are the eye and mouth movements that convey your personableness and good character

Your gestures, the movements of your hands, arms, and fingers, can help intelligibility and expressiveness.

Movement refers to changing the position or location of your entire body.

Posture refers to the position or bearing with which you hold your body.

Delivery methods speeches vary in the amount of content preparation and the amount of practice you do ahead of time.

An impromptu speech is one that is delivered with
only seconds or minutes of advance notice for preparation and is usually presented without referring to notes of any kind.

A scripted speech is one that is prepared by creating a complete written manuscript and delivered by reading or memorizing a written copy.

An extemporaneous speech is researched and
planned ahead of time, but the exact wording is not scripted and will vary somewhat from presentation to presentation.

Rehearsing is the iterative process of practicing your speech aloud.

Speaking notes are a key-word outline of your speech, including hard-to-remember information such as quotations and statistics, as well as delivery cues designed to
help trigger memory

Handling Presentational Aids
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  1. Carefully plan when to use the presentati onal aids
  1. Consider audience needs carefully.
  1. Share a presentational aid only when talking about it.
  1. Display presentational aids so that everyone in the audience can see and hear them.
  1. Talk to your audience, not to the presentational aid.
  1. Resist the temptation to pass objects through the audience.

Even when you’ve practiced your speech to the point that you know it inside and out, you must be prepared to adapt to your audience and possibly change course a bit as you give your speech.

  1. Be aware of and respond to audience feedback.
  1. Be prepared to use alternative developmental material.
  1. Correct yourself when you misspeak.
  1. Adapt to unexpected events.
  1. Adapt to unexpected audience reactions.
  1. Handle questions respectully.