Want to Improve Your Public Speaking? Develop Your Awareness Skills

Get out of your own head, stop thinking about how you are going to say your own name, look up from the restaurant menu, put down your phone, etc. Focus solely and completely on them as they give you their name. Remember that they are giving it to you. It is a gift.

4. Catching Self-Awareness on the Fly

In real life, when you’re talking to your family, friends, or colleagues, your ears should perk up whenever you hear the words “I want,” “I wish,” or “I don’t know.”

Weak speakers look down at the floor, good speakers look up but scan the room, great speakers make eye contact selectively, and exceptional speakers deliver every complete thought directly to one person in the audience, making that person feel like the center of the room—and then they move on and do it again. We’ve all been in that position when a