This document provides 10 tips for improving public speaking abilities: 1) Gather extensive knowledge on the topic, 2) Focus on yourself before speaking, 3) Engage the audience from the beginning, 4) Speak loudly and clearly, 5) Fill the speaking space, 6) Use visual aids to supplement words, 7) Involve gestures and facial expressions, 8) Have notes to ensure all key points are covered, 9) Use silence strategically, and 10) Simplify and repeat main ideas so the audience can remember them. The overall message is to speak from the heart and with feeling to truly engage listeners.

1. Ten
Tips
To
Improve your speech
To get your ideas to stand out
J e s ú s
H e r r e r a

2. This is not a course on time management.
This are just ten reflections that can be useful.

3. What a speaker is
“A speaker is one who
says what he thinks
and feels what he
says”
William J. Bryans

4. #1 What you Know
The best presentation you
will ever do will result from
the knowledge you are
able to gather

5. #2 Concentrate on yourself
Before any presentation take a few minutes for
yourself, breathing deeply and focusing your
mind on things that remind you of success

6. # 3 Impact from the
beginning
Capture the listeners with an ice
breaker in the first minute in
order to get all their attention

7. # 4 Speak up
The modulation of
your voice is the
same as using
capital letters when
you are writing

8. # 5 The place must be filled
Walk naturally through the space in
which you are doing the speech

9. # 6 An image better than words
Don’t let people
read. Use visual aid
that helps people
understand the
concept or the idea
you are trying to
communicate to
them

10. # 7 Your body is speaking
Let your body speak at
the same time. You can
draw words with your
hands and also
emphasize ideas with
your face. Look at the
audience continually

11. # 8 Keep the notes with you
The main ideas must
flow naturally but
these ideas must be
written before and
you must keep these
notes with you to
ensure that
everything you want
to communicate is
said

12. # 9 Silence is a powerful ally
The opportunity to
think over what you
are speaking about
must be given to
the audience.
When you take
control of the
silence, you take
control of the
audience

13. # 10 Help them to remember
Simplify the main ideas and repeat them so that they
can be remembered by the end of the session.

14. Anyway
“Only feelings have
strength enough to
traverse our brain and
be installed in our hearts.
If you speak with feeling
instead of just with
words; you will be in the
heart of those who listen
to you”
JH

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H e r r e r a
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