Improve your Speech skills

Everybody might be wondering on how to improve your speech skills? Let me introduce some ways which you can practice daily to improve your communication as well as vocabulary skills which will be helpful to you in the future.

1) Take a word which you don't use normally and try to use that word as much as you can in your speech on a random topic which will gain you confidence in using that word in a crowd. This helps in improving your vocabulary.

2) Crack a joke by a narration of an incident. This will help in improving your expressions, gestures and eye contact while giving a speech or trying to convey something to a crowd.

3) This one is familiar to everyone, Story telling which one person starts with some topic and the next person should continue where the last person has left. You can tell whatever you want. This will mainly improve your creativity and also on the spot speaking talent.

4) Take a topic and have a group discussion on that which will help you on how to talk in a meeting, it will also bring table manners which will be very useful when you are especially attending meetings with your colleagues.

5) The main important thing is try to avoid using words like "but", "you know", "so", "like" unless it is appropriate to the context. These are called filler words which are usually used by many of us to avoid passes in between our speech. One whitespace is fine instead of repeatedly using the filler words and annoying the people who are hearing you. Even I used to count how many "I hope I believe" my faculty says in his/her class which will entirely divert the listening of your audience. Many of you would have also done this!! :).

The main important thing is try to use the word which you have selected initially in all your speeches to know more about the usage of that word and call that as "Word of the day". A group of 3 or more people sit together and try this then you will definitely see a difference in your way of speaking and improvement in your speech skills.

I hope this helps you to be more "eclectic" in terms of communication, I used my Word of the day and also hoping others to do the same.