Smile and the world smiles with you..

Public speaking success depends on using the full range of your communication skills to convey your message. As we'll discuss later in this blog, your 'message' will vary greatly. In one instance, it might be a complex set of data and your analysis of those data which you have to present (poor you!) to your clients or colleagues.

In another instance, it might be a heartfelt Toast to your best friend who's just turned 40, 50 or better still, 90. If you're really fortunate, you may have a daughter or six, and you'll be asked to deliver the most important Toast at her/their wedding. A little tangent here, if you'd like to have a great guide to everything you need to include in that speech, please visit one of my websites - Public Speaking Success e-Program. Once there, you can download for no cost at all, my blueprint for the father-of-the-Bride speech.

A genuine smile wins the day and helps win the audience
It doesn't matter one iota what your message is, where you're speaking, to how many people, if you puncutate your speech with a genuine smile your audience will respond much more positively.

I won't bore you with the psychological reasons, or alleged reasons, for that. I know intuitively that you already know how important a smile is to you in all your communications.

Remember yesterday when you were walking through the city streets and person after person rushed by in their own busy little world. Then, one person smiled at you. And moved on. It was great wasn't it? Of course, there can be times when strangers smiling at you can be a bit disconcerting but again, I am talking here about sincerity, about real smiles, about reaching out in a friendly way to others.

Even if you never have the opportunity to talk one-to-one with members of your audience, a genuine smile as part of what you're saying to them, automatically relaxes them and makes them feel more 'at-one' with you.

I found a wonderful website recently called Speechmastery (www.speechmastery.com). It's about public speaking and speechmaking generally. On that site was a very interesting article about learning how to master the art of smiling. It's here just for you http://speechmastery.com/smile.html Read, enjoy and learn about public speaking success.