3 quick steps to better public speaking

1. Exude confidence
- Simply by showing that you are confident, the audience will be more interested in what you have to say because you appear to know what you are doing. When you sense this interest in them, you then in turn become more confident. A virtuous cycle!
(It helps of course if you have prepared a good speech.)

2. Eliminate fillers
- Kill all the 'Ahs', 'Oks', 'Erm', every single one of them. You will sound so much better.
- If you need time to think, just stop. Your pauses makes you seem sincere and serious in your task.

3. Don't read from a prepared script word-for-word
- Unless you are in parliament! but even then......
- Don't regurgitate whatever is on the slide. What's the point then of you presenting?
- Understand the concepts, use key points to remind yourself and elaborate the rest based on your understanding.

And an additional tip

4. Do not attempt to crack a joke unless you are Barack Obama or Jay Leno
- A bad joke or unappreciated joke is almost as bad as a boring speech.
- No toilet jokes, please.