in this video I'll share public speaking tips for beginners so if you're just getting started in your stand-up speaking experience this video is for you so let's unpack the details hello there and welcome to this channel communication coach if you're never tuned in yet this channel is here to help rising leaders increase your personal impact so you can lead the people around you with more excellent and today we're talking about communication skills specifically if you haven't had a lot of experience doing stand-up speaking I'm going to give you some news and some don'ts that'll help move you in the right direction and as we talk about these do's and don'ts I want you to pick out which ones you think would help you the most and feel free at any point to comment in that section below the video so I said do's and don'ts we're actually going to start with the don'ts and then give you the due version of it so that's the way we'll organize it so the first pair goes like this don't ramble and get long-winded anytime a speaker is disorganized weaves all around it's very hard to follow what he or she is talking about and instead what you want to do is give a nice organized and concise message that means you have to take the time beforehand when you're preparing to create a nice introduction body and conclusion make sure you have clear main points and there's a transition statement between each main point your audience is really going to appreciate an orderly presentation of your ideas and it's much more likely that they'll remember what you said and really that's the whole point of speaking to them in the first place the next don't is don't look with your eyes in the wrong places you want to not look over people's heads or not look at the floor and not stare at the ceiling or scan around like that what you want to do is look directly into a person's eye long enough to finish a thought and then move on and look directly into the next person's eyes long enough to finish a thought one public speaking teacher told me one thought one look in other words about a sentence or a half a sentence and then move on to the next person now this is very difficult to do if you're not used feel very awkward looking right into someone's eyes but you have to gear up for this because that's what audiences want we want people to connect with this if you're not looking into our eyes and making us feel like we're part of this then you're not going to have much of an impact the next thing you want to do is don't rather this is a don't don't clutter up all your notes with too many details a lot of times we're tempted to jam our notes or our powerpoints with everything we want to say but the result is when we're nervous in the moment we end up just locked in to our notes and looking down the whole time in reading and sounding really stiff really wooden and you're not going to again connect with people so what you want to do instead is pare down your notes so that you can just have a conversational style with your audience and again as you're practicing you have to whittle down those notes so that all you have is like talking points like a little grocery list of items that you're going to talk about and it almost forces your at least frees you to connect with people to look up and to have a nice normal conversation with them and your natural personality the next don't is you don't want to load up your slide with all complicated animations and text and one of the reasons is you don't want to stare at it and read from it the other reason is that it's very hard to follow what's going on if your slides are jam-packed with detail what you want to do instead is to make sure your slides are nice and clear and simple and help you make whatever point you're making in that particular moment a rule of thumb that I like to use is if you're spending more than about two or three minutes on each PowerPoint slide then you're probably wasting your time and I don't recommend using more than a couple of slides for a presentation anyway if you're a beginner because people tend to over rely on the slides and load up each single slide with way too much the next don't is don't fidget don't fidget with your hands don't fidget with your feet don't pace back and forth aimlessly because you're nervous what you want to do instead is have nice confident posture where you stand in one place for a little while and then if you want to move with a purpose move stand in another place for a while and then share another party a message move for the purpose stand still share some of your message don't just pace have nice confident posture same thing with your hands you want to use gestures and emphasize your ideas with your hands you don't want to fidget and put them in your pockets or play with a pen or do anything else weird or distracting like that that's a big part of how you come across non-verbally and I recommend that you when you're practicing you work on this as well and the last don't undo is how you use your voice what you don't want to do is speak too softly use a lot of fillers like um and AH and so what you want to do is have a confident voice where you speak loud like to the back of the room with a nice clear volume aim for the back of the room because you think about it you have to reach those people the other thing you want to do is emphasize your key words with the sound of your voice and also pause after you share a key idea or a key thought pause for a minute silently don't fill it up with an umm or know the pause is much more effective so here are some do's and don'ts some tips for beginners again as I mentioned where do you see yourself in here which one you think would help you the most in this list I would love to hear your comments in that section below so thanks god bless and I will see you in the next video