Start:
- Making more eye contact
- I noticed I looked at my note way way too much. I need to maintain eye contact with my audience more to reinforce what I am talking about. More eye contact shows more confidence and knowledge of what I am talking about.
- I need to practice more!
- When I practiced in front of my friends and the mirror I felt confident and it seemed easy. But in front of everyone I got really nervous and I think i definitely showed. For my next speech I want to practice in front of people I'm not as comfortable with, perhaps a roommates friend or neighbors who I don't talk to very often.
- Start using more gestures, moving around the speech area, and looking at all my audience.
- I think that speaking with hands and doing other nonverbal things helps communicate what point the speaker is trying to get across. And using nonverbal communication and benefit me with my speeches greatly.
- I would like to start using pauses better.
- Whenever I would pause I got nervous and used fillers like Um and Ah. To me that communicates that I wasn't prepared enough and confident in what I was speaking. Pauses can be used as points of emphasis in a speech and to have stronger and more persuasive points.
- Structure my speech more efficiently
- I repeated myself too much and I want to start my next speech with a structure of exactly the points I want to make and the arguments I will say
- Creating a better hook
- With this last speech I didn't have a very strong hook and that definitely effected the quality of persuasion of my speech
- Doing the same gesture with my arms
- Throughout my speech I did the same arm gesture. In the future I want to expand what my gestures are to use my nonverbal communication to reinforce what I am speaking about
- Using the works like, um, and ah so much
- During my speech I kept looking to my notecard and I would take a few seconds to find what I am trying to say. This definitely proved to be hurtful for me. Because I would say uhhhh or ummm during these seconds and look like I didn't know what I was talking about. I think that caused me to seem less confident, less persuasive, and less professional.
- Stop using a note card all together
- Overall I think the notecard did more harm for my speech than good. When practicing I didn't use it at all and my speech flowed so much nicer. But in he video I kept referring back to it which interrupted my flow. At a few points in my speech I said something and they glanced at my notecard and pretty much repeated exactly what I just said. It's frustrating to watch because when reading the notecard and the room is silent I get nervous from the silence and repeat what I'm reading to break the silence. Even though I know its exactly what I just said.
- Stop sounding so monotone
- I am a very spirited and energized person. And I felt my speech was pretty monotone and almost boring. I want to bring more emotion into what I am speaking and make it more personal for me and entertaining for my audience.
- Stop seeming so nervous and not very confident
- The biggest thing I want to stop doing is seeming so not confident. Some other classmates seemed so confident and comfortable up there on stage. I know I have that type of confidence in me for public speaking I just need to figure out how to get it to shine. It seems that once I'm up there right when something small goes wrong I put too much thought into fixing it that makes me lose my confidence. I usually think the problem is a lot more of a bid deal than it actually is which throws me off.
Continue:
- Making the speech personal and a topic of interest for me
- I really liked the topic of my speech because it is something I could easily see myself doing
- Speaking at a good pace and good volume
- I think I have a good pitch and tone of my voice
- Choosing a topic that I am passionate about.
- The more passion I have for something the more confident I am and that translates to a better speech
- Making my post relatable to the audience and connectable to the audience
- Offering a rebuttal and how to get around that. I like in my speech I was able to show why what I was offering was fair to my dad and why it's different than just asking for money
- Lastly continue to stand up straight and using good body language. I want my gestures to get better but I'm happy with how I'm standing and engaging with my audience
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