Timing is everything

The meter or speed of your delivery can make a big difference in the impact of what you say.   Dynamic speakers have a very slow delivery then vary to very fast depending on the reception of the audience.   Generally if you start off in the beginning very slowly, you can speed up your delivery as you warm and your audience warms to your subject.   You can project your intensity by either slowing up at the right time or speeding up your delivery.   In the case where you want to speed up when excited and slow down when you want to project intensity.   Build effective pauses in to your presentation.   Quite often if you pause and wait for your audience to react you will get applause.   Keep your words separate do not run them together, this keeps them more understandable and distinct.   With practice you will be able to read your audience and your timing will become exact.   In the meantime speak as you feel, don't be afraid to pause for effect and to speed up when you're excited.

Get in touch with your audience

When you are in touch with your audience you can lead your audience and have them move with you.   The other concern is to deliver slowly enough to be easily understood.   Keep In mind that everybody in the audience has a different clock speed, they think and assimilate information at a different rate of speed.   The detailed person tends to think a little slower and methodically, others may think faster and have a shorter attention span.   Keeping that in mind, pick the middle ground but always the slower pace.   Your words will have more impact and you'll appear to be thinking while your speaking.   Your sensitivity to your audience's moods and needs will increase with your ability to be relaxed and in a state of grace when you are making your presentation.   A relaxed comfortable speaker can sense the tension or lack of tension in the audience as a whole;   adjustments in the tone of your speech and your body language will take place automatically.   When in that relaxed state your timing will be perfect, you will often achieve the much sought after synergy with those you speak with.   Great communicators spend many years of practice to achieve this goal;   YOU CAN, if you follow a few simple rules and your own common sense.   When I say common sense I mean you must LIKE YOUR AUDIENCE, it is a truism that all the effort and love you devote to your audience will come back to you tenfold in the response you will experience from them.   REMEMBER Its SHOW BUSINESS, have a good time and enjoy the experience, there is no fear when you're having a good time!   NEWSPEAK'S next topic "Strategies for Effective Audience Management ... Keeping your audience".