Practice Effective Oral Comunication Skills

The ability to speak clearly, eloquently and affectively are essential skills critical in businesses. Effective speech communication is learned, and the ability can be enhanced through and principles.
•    Choose a topic that familiar to you. This will help alleviate some nervousness and anxiety when you have good command of the topic and can speak freely about it. When you are excited about a topic, this will be conveyed to your audience through your voice, expression and gestures.
•    Prepare your topic very well. Rehearse your speech with another person to obtain feedback. Constructive criticism can improve your skills, and increase your comfort level in being able to adjust timing, tone, style and gestures before the actual presentation.
•    The presentation should be to-the-point, clearly understandable, states the purpose and objective, and explains a ll the concepts. Use visual aids such as charts, images and graphs, and offer solutions recommendations and a summary to close the presentation.
Practice your tone of voice. How you say it is important as what you say. Be aware of your body language, Body movements express what your attitudes and thoughts really are. And dress appropriately during the presentation. First impressions influence the audience’s attitude towards you, and will affect your confidence and comfort giving the oral presentation.