Hi! This is Alex Brian and welcome to another free video lesson from 10publicspeakingtips.com. Today's video lesson is all about making eye contact. Now, if you are giving a presentation or a talk and you are not scanning the room and you not relating or communicating with your audience through your eyes, you making one of the biggest mistakes in public speaking.
It is essential, absolutely essential that you scan the room with your eyes and you connect with your audience. You notice a difference between good public speakers, the good ones and the bad ones. Now, you don't want to be other here. You don't want to be a bad speaking public speaker, you want to be a good one. One of the character traits of good public speakers is they scan the room very often, almost 100% of the time with their eyes. They don't look at piece of paper, they don't look at some blue print or they don't look at there seminars slides they have in PowerPoint, they look at their audience. They are communicating with the audience with their eyes. You will find that you will get a lot more positive reactions and reviews from your audience afterwards, if you make eye contact. It also gives an understanding on how many people in our audience are actually taking on the information of the content that you are giving out.
Let's say your example you are in a room with me and I am the only seminar speaker there and I am talking directly to you, what will be better, if I was talking to you and I was looking at you and relating to you and getting your feedback for your eye contact and how receptive you are to my information or if I was I looking over here? Now what will be better, if I was looking over here and I was talking and I was talking over here and avoiding you or if I was looking there and I was saying on taking in my information, what would be better to you emotionally how would you feel? Of course, you would be want to me that eye contact with you. So that's a good lesson a learn. Always make eye contact with your audience.
Now if you still want to pressure that you don't really want to impose yourself on other people, if you afraid of making eye contact to the people, pick three spots in the room, one on the left, one in the middle, one in the right, and look at those three spots, people will think you making eye contact. This is a very good public speaking tactic. Draw three spots in the room, one in the middle, one of the left, one in th right and always look at those points. That why you don't necessarily have to always make an eye contact with somebody. It is good to, but if you find at in the early stages of giving your presentation or your talk, you get nervous, just focus on those three vocal points. My name is Alex Brian, and until I have time for today, if you haven't yet gained the instant access to a free 30 minutes audio head over to 10publicspeakingtips.com. I will see you there.
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