Benefits of Public Speaking and How to Learn it for Beginners

Translated by: Harits Arba Amrullah

Editor by: Risa Amalia

Benefits of Public Speaking and How to Learn it for Beginners

Some people are so proficient at public speaking and are good at capturing the audience's attention. Skills aka abilities like this are usually often used in the world of work. The ability to appear perfectly in public and speak in front of many people is called Public Speaking.

This ability is often used when bringing material, moderating, presenting or leading meetings.

Definition of Public Speaking

The meaning of public speaking, quoting from the Public Speaking Module written by Nieke Monika from the National University of Jakarta, public speaking is the ability to speak in front of many people, convey messages that can be understood and trusted by the public listeners.

This one way of communication requires the perpetrator to convey information in a structured, easy to understand and straightforward manner.

A public speaker requires high self-confidence, mastery of material and able to communicate well. Therefore, people who master this skill are generally considered experts in conveying information to the general public.

In the world of work, public speaking will make people look more professional. This will certainly have a positive impact, both from superiors, clients and colleagues.

Benefits of Public Speaking 

Here are some of the benefits you get if you master public speaking skills

1. Increase Confidence

Public speaking will help increase self-confidence. Where, excellent self-confidence is not only needed to speak in front of a general audience. Confidence is also very necessary when you are talking to only one person.

For example, you may need to meet a potential investor or manager who can help your business or career. At that time, self-confidence was the main thing in public speaking. The more often you study it, you can cultivate self-confidence.

2. Growing Leadership

For a manager, one of his main tasks is to speak in front of his subordinates, whether it's during meetings, project presentations, or other things.

Public speaking plays an important role in helping a manager to control himself and convey material or information clearly to his subordinates.

On the other hand, this ability also helps protect your subordinates. This of course will slowly cultivate leadership traits in a person.

4. Mastering Audience Attention

Another thing that is no less important that is also needed in public speaking is the ability to speak or communicate well. Things that include this ability to communicate are the way of speaking, choosing the right words or sentences, to using appropriate body language.

If we talk to people like that, of course we will also be happy to listen to them. Style of speech and choosing the right words can help yourself to move forward.

5. Add Value

A Steve Jobs would not become popular and his products would not be as global as they are now, if during his lifetime he did not have public speaking skills. Armed with this ability, Jobs can present his products very well, so that people feel the need to own them.

6. Help More Critical

Choosing the right word or sentence to say is not easy. It will make our brain work more actively. Indirectly, it will stimulate our brains to think more critically.

If we are able to think critically, we certainly will not be easily influenced by things that can harm ourselves. In fact, we can think to be a better person.

How to Public Speaking

Learning public speaking from scratch is not difficult. If you are a beginner who wants to learn about public speaking, here's how to learn public speaking.

1. Master the Material

When going to speak in public make sure you master the material to be discussed. Mastering the material is the most basic thing if you don't master the material it is tantamount to embarrassing yourself.

2. Easy to understand language

Using language that is easy to understand is not only useful for the speaker but also for the listener. So it's best to avoid using language that is difficult to understand, so that listeners can understand it well.

3. Practice in front of a mirror

The most effective way is to practice speaking in front of a mirror by looking at yourself while speaking, so you will know where our mistakes are when speaking. This method can also make our self-confidence higher.

4. Reduce the Pause Sound

To be a good public speaker, you need to speak fluently and not pause too much. Pausing sounds like "em, eee," and others will distract listeners and break their concentration.

5. Regular voice intonation

Good and perfect public speaking is dynamic public speaking; namely making speech with attention to intonation.

Correct and regular tone of voice and in accordance with what is being discussed will show naturalness in making presentations in front of the public or clients.

Why is that?

Because if you don't manage and pay attention to intonation and use the intonation that comes in making a presentation, it will make the presentation monotonous. It is very bad for the impression and result of our presentation.

The bad effect is that the audience will think that the discussion of your presentation is not important even though it is actually very important and good. But because of the wrong use of intonation, making presentations has unwanted results.

6. Body Language

Moving your body can make you more relaxed and your nervousness can dissipate a bit, using body language also gives the impression to listeners that you not only memorize the material you want to convey but also understand it well.

7. Maintain Eye Contact

Eye contact is making eye contact with the audience when making a presentation. This is very important.

When making eye contact with each audience present in turn it will make them psychologically that the speaker is directly interacting with them.

This will make them listen carefully to what is being said and will have a good impact on every audience present.

Also we will get the goal of our goal of making a presentation at that place, be it the goal of the goal of public speaking, or even the results of approval from the client.