Ice Breaking in Public Speaking - ToC Class BritZone English Club | April 9th, 2013

     Sometime in a public speaking, the speaker feels like a nervous or feels like numb to deliver the material to the audience. And a good speaker has to skillful to break the "cold" like that. Perhaps with a little bit of joke, or elses.

     That's something called as Ice Breaking. It can be do with a game, chit-chat to know each other or some warming up to break the cold situation. It did for increase the receptiveness the audience about your substantial of your presentation in a public speaking. Here's some points that i successfully noted from Visy's topic last time about Ice Breaking in a Public Speaking. Hope can be a good information for whole of the world.

1. Put yourself in the right path. Including the way you stand in the stage, your stand style, your gesture and even your opening style. Try to make something relax for the yourself and the audience. Because if you open your section with something serious, all the atmosphere later will feels like too rigid and the audience will a lil bit hard to get what you mean about your presentation / what you're talking about. Related to your performance, don't fear to play with colorful suit but don't too make hurt the audience's eye. For female, use some accessories like necklace, and for male use tie to get attention from the audience.

2. Make a joke. But remember, just a lil bit joke, don't make it too much. Because in the several cases, when the speaker say some jokes with a short time range, the audience will just can remember about your joke, not about your substantial presentation. And the important things about joke is do not ever make a joke about races, religions and gender. Those things are sensitive things to say, especially to make those as a joke. But if you still wanna make the situation being warm, try to make a joke about those things but still in the right situation, such as in the right place, in the right people or else, and don't make it too long, just a few moments. And don't forget to directly say "sorry" after you tell about those jokes.

3. You have to be able handling your nervous when you're at the stage. If you're too nervous before or along your time, just make some warming up. You can make it by yourself or you can ask the audience to make it more relax. Because if you keep stand still with your nervousness, it'll be bad, very very bad. Visy has make a parable of a chain of nervous just like this : Nervous -> Embarrassed -> Block Social Life -> Feel Lonely -> Feel Get a Mental Disorder -> Getting Older -> Despair -> Dead. Those things are dangered, right?

4. If you have an accident along your appearance, like your feet get stumbled, just make it relax, you can make it an allibi and stay cool, and of course don't be panic. Don't forget to a lil bit laugh to melt the cold situation.

5. The last, tick-tock your preparation for your performance, put an ego on yourself, make it as your show, be confidence, supple and flexible, and don't forget to say a gratitude to the audience, say thank you for everything else done.

*Has been delivered in Training of Counductor (ToC) Class BritZone English Club on Tuesday, April 9th, 2013 by Visy Yulanda as the conductor.