Body Language as the Speaker

When you are the individual that is speaking during the meeting, it is very important that you make sure to keep the attention of your audience. If the audiences attention is constantly being kept, the speaker will be able to give and absorb the most possible information. Unfortunately if you are the person that is speaking and your posture is bad, and you are hard to understand, the success of the meeting is pretty much thrown out the window. The people that are listening to the speaker will get distracted and potentially interrupt the actual speaker because of a lose of interest on the topic. Also this can result in the individuals listening not absorbing the information in the meeting properly, resulting in inaccurate feedback.

When you are the individual speaking there are many simple actions that you will want to do in order to keep your audiences attention. The following are simple guidelines that the speaker should follow in a meeting:

• If you are the person that organized the meeting, it is pretty important to be there early or on time. This automatically informs the people attending the meeting that you are organized and want to get down to business.
• Make sure that you make eye contact with your listeners. This will not only force the audience to listen to what you have to say, but it becomes much easier for the individuals listening to understand you more clearly and see that you are passionate about what your talking about.
• Speak clearly and loudly. This will allow the people in the meeting to digest all of the information that is being given to them, without you having to repeat yourself.
• Use your body to show confidence in what you are talking about. As the speaker, it is important that you keep your back straight, head up high, and talk using your body and hands. This allows the listener to get a better understanding of what the individual is referring too. Also this will show the listeners that you are into and passionate about what you are discussing.