PresentationL Communicating with Body Language

Communicating with Body Language

Always speaker feel nervous when about to start presentation. And it is not a weird symptom it is natural reaction because every one sitting in front of stage is looking at the speaker you need to communicate is a feeling of confidence and relaxation. Your body can help you to do this. The clothes you wear, the way you stand or walk, your facial expressions, your hand and arm movements - these are the language of your body, your body language.

Body language communicates 70% of your message. Even when you are not speaking, even before you start speaking, your body is communicating to your audience.

Actors use body language very effectively. They cannot act without body language. Every time you watch a film on television or in the cinema, you are watching actors using body language to convey a particular character, an emotion, a feeling, a situation.

·        First of all, your appearance (clothes, hair etc)

For a speaker it is very important to look good, wear good presentable suiting, hairs should be gelled and your shave should be shaved properly.

·        Smile

Smile is the very essential element of the presentation, it create friendly understanding between speaker and audience, listener feel free during speech and then they feel free to ask any question in which they feel they are not cleared, and it finished the communication barrier between speaker and audience, speaker can convey all message and can also persuade whatever speaker want to do.

·        Do not lean on the podium or table. Leaning on a support suggests to your audience that you are weak or nervous. And it creates awkwardness in the atmosphere, and a show that may be speaker is not good enough to speak or may be speaker is not speaker truth to the audience it raises many possibilities.

·        Continue to smile slightly at the beginning of your presentation. Then become gradually a little more serious as you tell your audience what you are going to talk about the topic, because excess of anything is bad, if you will smile too much during a presentation it will give bad impact, people will think that the speaker is having some issue, maybe he is not serious enough about the topic.

·        Do not point your finger at the audience. This can seem very aggressive. May be audience will feel bad, or at that point may be your finger toward some specific individual can create fight in auditorium, or can create huge communication barrier between speakers audience, and may be they will not listen to the speaker and ignore whatever he or she is conveying, so make your presence worth by acting on these tools,  If you want to use your hands, show your open palms with your hands spread wide. This is generally an appealing, positive gesture.

·        Use occasional arm movements to underline important points. If you wave your arms around all the time, you will simply distract your audience. You should use your hands gestures just to communicate or to create understanding what your are trying to say to the audience, and moving arms can show your interest and grip to the issue, that you are serious and you have all facts and can answer all the questions the occasional arm movement can be useful in stressing something important.