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Effective public speaking requires the following:

- Clarity: speaking intelligibly and clearly to make sure listeners understand.
- Confidence: Making an elegant and confident first impression.
- Engagement: Creating a connection with the audience by using interactive components, body language, and eye contact.
- Organization: Logically arranging the speech's introduction, body, and conclusion.
- Purpose: The speech should have a distinct message or objective.
- Practice: Extensive rehearsal is necessary to improve timing and delivery.
- Adaptability: Modifying the speech in response to comments and reactions from the audience.

Try putting these techniques into practice to get over stage fright or anxiety while giving a speech:

1. Prepare and Practice: Get comfortable with your content by going over it several times.
2. Deep Breathing: Reduce anxiety using deep breathing techniques.
3. Positive Visualization: Assume that you are able to deliver the speech.
4. Remain Hydrated: To prevent dehydration and maintain proper hydration, sip water.
5. Small Audience Practice: To foster confidence, begin by presenting in front of small, encouraging audiences.
6. Message Clarity: Pay more attention to the importance of your message than the response of your audience.
7. Be on time: acclimate yourself to the setting in which you will talk.
8. Accept Nervousness: Recognize that a certain amount of anxiety is typical and may be transformed into positive energy.

By investigating and comprehending important qualities like age, cultural background, education level, and particular interests or requirements, speakers can modify their content and delivery according to the demographics and preferences of the audience.

They should modify the intricacy and tone of their writing in accordance with the audience by using terminology, examples, and references that speak to them.

Personal narratives and interactive components can also help to humanize and engage the audience with the topic.

Strategically and carefully use images to enhance, not replace, your spoken word.
Keep slides straightforward, with little to no text, emphasizing graphics, data visualizations, or important points.
Verify that the audience can easily read and comprehend the images.
Steer clear of overloading the audience with complex or numerous slides.
Don't just use graphics to adorn the presentation; use them to highlight vital information.
To prevent distracting the audience, practice effectively incorporating pictures into your speech.
Using visual aids should strengthen and assist your presentation rather than deflect from its main points.

Once I had a very fussy customer who didn't know the word negotiation and was accusing me that I did not do my job properly and taught incorrectly.I tried explaining but didn't work. I ended up explaining and showing the text book and online references to make her aware of the facts and she apologised to me