Public Speaking

Most people don’t think much about the benefits of public speaking. But there are actually quite a few advantages of public speaking. Here are some advantages that show that public speaking can make a real difference in people´s lives.

1. Build Your Confidence
Although you may be nervous before giving your first speech, you’ll feel a sense of accomplishment (along with a sense of relief) when it is done. If the speech went well, you may even receive positive feedback from your peers and your audience – further bolstering your confidence.

2. Improve Your Research Skills
To make a successful public presentation, you need to research your topic thoroughly. You’ll learn where to find the information you need for each presentation and how to tell whether the information is credible and relevant.

3. Strengthn Your Deductive Skills
Public speaking requires you to work from a premise and draw a conclusion based on the information you’ve researched. This is called deductive reasoning.
Deductive reasoning is another important skill that’s improved by the speech writing process. Like many of the other skills strengthened by studying public speaking, deductive reasoning is useful in everyday life.

4. Market Your Business
If you own a business, you can use public speaking to market your business. Even if you don’t own a business, public speaking can make you more marketable as a business professional. Here’s how to do it:

5. Strengthen Your Oral Communication Skills
Oral communication is the ability to communicate verbally. Public speaking is a special form of oral communication. The more you practice giving speeches, the better you’ll become at communicating orally. Those improved oral communication skills not only apply to any future speeches you may give, they can also carry over into everyday conversation.

6. Become More Aware of How Others Perceive You
One of the many benefits of learning about public speaking is that you’ll become more aware of how others perceive you. If you know how others perceive you, you can work to improve that perception. Public speaking requires you to pay more attention to your physical presence. Here are just some of the factors you’ll learn to control as you improve your oral communication skills:

• Posture
• Tone of voice
• Hand gestures
• Pacing and other nervous gestures
• Interjections like “uh” and “um”
• Clothing choices

As you improve your control over these factors – not just while you’re speaking, but even in everyday conversation – you’ll notice that others view you in a more positive light.