If you want something very evidence based you might take the feeling good handbook and do CBT written exercises 15 minutes per day.
Doing meditation is another way.
Nassim Taleb who’s one of the people who aren’t ex-politicians who can charge very high speaking fees made the point of not doing any public speaking training to the point of changing his publisher when the first publisher suggest he take a training.
I did spent 4 years at toastmasters and don’t consider that time to have been worthless but having control of your emotional state and being able to go into emotions that deeply move you turned out to be more important for me than trying to reduce the amount of ah’s, consciously trying to look at the audience and consciously making controlled body movement.
Those tactics have effects but if you are in the right emotional state you automatically look at your audience and you automatically use your body to illustrate what you are saying.
The professor most popular among the students in the department of computer science of my university did a lot of personal development and dealing with his own deep issues. That makes him better a better speaker at lectures than his colleagues and it also makes him a person who finishes papers for conferences weeks before the deadline with most of his colleagues don’t do according to him.
Don’t spent all your time on learning tactics but engage yourself at a deep level.
I think you are missing emotional management.
If you want something very evidence based you might take the feeling good handbook and do CBT written exercises 15 minutes per day. Doing meditation is another way.
Nassim Taleb who’s one of the people who aren’t ex-politicians who can charge very high speaking fees made the point of not doing any public speaking training to the point of changing his publisher when the first publisher suggest he take a training.
I did spent 4 years at toastmasters and don’t consider that time to have been worthless but having control of your emotional state and being able to go into emotions that deeply move you turned out to be more important for me than trying to reduce the amount of ah’s, consciously trying to look at the audience and consciously making controlled body movement.
Those tactics have effects but if you are in the right emotional state you automatically look at your audience and you automatically use your body to illustrate what you are saying.
The professor most popular among the students in the department of computer science of my university did a lot of personal development and dealing with his own deep issues. That makes him better a better speaker at lectures than his colleagues and it also makes him a person who finishes papers for conferences weeks before the deadline with most of his colleagues don’t do according to him.
Don’t spent all your time on learning tactics but engage yourself at a deep level.