How to Be Brilliant at Public Speaking

wonderful words and vibrant visuals

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Vibrant Visuals

Words alone can be very powerful, but visual aids add some-

thing extra for the memory to latch onto. Let’s turn to the

different visuals at your disposal and how you might use them

in the freshest way possible.

PowerPoint

I’ll start off by tackling the elephant that stands at the front of

most public speaking rooms – the PowerPoint presentation. The

first thing to do is to notice is the typical reflex – ‘I’m due to

give information to an audience, so where’s my laptop?’ – and

question it.

Do your audience really need another presentation?

Although many speakers use PowerPoint to make them seem

professional, you can seem more competent and refreshing as

a speaker if you don’t u