Common Mistakes Public Speakers Make, Part I

A good public speaking training will help you to clean up the mistakes you're making.

This public speaking training article is going to focus on a mistake most public speakers make and don't even know it.

You ready?

Here's the mistake: your face!

Okay, don't get mad - I'm not saying your face is a mistake.

I'm saying that you're not paying attention to what your face is doing and that's a huge mistake!

Public speakers just let their face do whatever it wants to do, random expressions cross their face as they speak.

Most public speakers even make weak excuses for not paying attention to or controlling their facial expressions.

They give limp arguments like they're "being natural" or "instinctive".

Those public speakers, in reality, are lazy! L-A-Z-Y!

They don't want to improve, they can't handle criticism, and they think they're doing "good enough".

But the best public speakers, the most successful public speakers - the ones who don't settle for "good enough" - use every tool at their disposal to be a success.

And your face is an important tool that most public speakers completely ignore - and it's right there, well, in plain sight!

Everyone in your group, everyone in your audience, everyone hearing you speak is watching your face.

So how are you leveraging your facial expressions to accentuate your message?

How are you using your facial expressions to drive home a point?

How are you using your facial expressions to get bigger laughs when you're using humor?

Admit it: you're not.

You just plain are not - you're letting one of your most important assets go completely underutilized.

Your face is a super-important communication tool as a speaker.

Did you know you can control the mood and emotions of an audience with your face?

Don't just gloss over that super-important fact: you can control the mood and emotions of your audience with your face.

Oh, and by the way, have you stopped to consider whether your facial expressions are matching your message?

Admit it: either you've never thought of these things or if you have, you're not doing anything about it.

Look, you can just be like those public speakers that make excuses, or you can be better than them and consciously use your facial expressions to your advantage.

So what's it going to be? Are you going to join the ranks of the best public speakers, or are you going to make lame excuses for not improving your ability and skill?

It's up to you! If you want to really improve - if you're truly serious - then get public speaking training where using facial expressions will be part of the training. I teach people techniques of using facial expressions that I've never seen anyone else teach and I hope one day to show you those techniques too.

Now that you know the importance of your facial expressions to accentuate your message, get laughs, drive a point home, or control your audience, what are you going to do about it?