Eye Communication. As you move about your audience, make direct eye contact with different individuals. Hold that eye contact for four to six seconds. That connection brings intimacy to your presentation and everyone feels your sincerity.

Voice Communication. You want to display a roller coaster of energy. Use a combination of varied pace, pitch and pauses.
Gestures. Novice speakers have a hard time making expansive gestures with their arms or body, and they restrict their movement in the audience. They stand like beanpoles in one spot. When you practice, practice with movement. Here is a challenge. Practice your speech without words. Just practice your body language.

Touch Their Hearts. Our speaking philosophy is simple. If you touch my mind, I will be grateful, but if you touch my heart, I will never forget you. Capture your audience with stories from the human experience: comedy, tragedy, romance, family, friends, living, dying, career success, or career failure. Your audience will always identify with the human experience. You will have touched their hearts. You will have given a powerful presentation.

Introductions with Pizzazz. Get your speech off to a great start by telling a story from the human experience. But other introductions can also be powerful including the following: ask provocative questions, present a startling fact, use relevant quotations.

Conclusions That Leave Them Begging For More. Here is a common mistake made by almost every speaker. At the conclusion of the speech, he/she takes questions. Guaranteed the presentation will end on a flat note. Rather, you should indicate at the beginning of your speech, you will take questions, but then after the questions you will have some closing remarks. These closing remarks will be your opportunity to WOW your audience.

a) Establish self-esteem. Give them a reason to feel good about themselves.

b) A call for action. Challenge them to achieve an attainable goal.

c) Bridge over troubled water. Be a catalyst of ideas that helps overcome problems, deal with crises, or reach out to others.

d) Involvement in their cause. Encourage them to become involved in their passions: to join, to write, to promote, or to sponsor.