Everyone has to give speech at some specific point of time in life. But, not everyone is really capable of making their speech sound smart. Only a few can make a strong impact on the crowd. Your speech can also sound smarter as it is not that much of a complicated issue as it is presumed to be. Just keep the below given tips in mind.
The first thing to keep in mind is that you do not require inserting any filler in your speech. These are words like 'like' and 'you know '. These words or phrases don't add any specific value to the speech as per the idea. Instead, they sound out of whack and light, if you'd like to make an impact, eliminate these fillers.
After you learn that fillers do not do any good you have to look into adding pauses in your speech. But, it is exceedingly important for you to grasp that pauses be used only where required otherwise they may make the listeners lose interest. Pauses might also indicate your state of panic, which would possibly not be the case in actual. You have to have correct amount of pauses to sound smart and in control.
When you finish one thought in a talk and wish to move on to the other, many use words of transition like 'so', 'well' and so on. It's important that you try not to utilize these words as they don't seem to be very heavy. You have to start a new idea using good vocabulary to set an impression. Thus, your audience will stay glued.
The better ideas in this situation are words like 'therefore', 'hence' or 'in essence '. These words highlight the change in a rather more effective way. For example, if you want to move from talking about the reasons behind high cholesterol to its unpleasant effects you can more suitably use 'as a consequence of' in the place of just using 'so '. You will sound well warranted and informed.
Aside from all this, there are plenty of folks who've got a habit of using expressions such as 'ahh', 'ummm.' etc. After every sentence. This indeed is an exceedingly unacceptable habit especially when you need to sound smart. Precisely avoid these expressions as much as you can. By avoiding these, you'll come across as a assured character who is warranted of his speech. Now you are talking about the problems that psychologically disabled have to face. So, it is dumb to use ahh., therefore well.
So use the already mentioned tips while you talk and notice yourself sounding intelligent on subjects starting from health to art by Ted Hebbler. The tips will certainly help you in making a long lasting effect on the audience.
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