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Wanna know why public speaking skills are important?

Hopefully you do.

They’re huge assets to anybody on any team.

I’m excited to dive in on this topic with you.

Why Are Public Speaking Skills Important?

They develop leadership skills, as well as a few other career benefits. The most effective public speakers carry the power of influence with their voice.

What type of leadership skills develop from public speaking?

Communicate effectively, influence, inspire and connect.

Shows your team what you’re thinking and the direction you want to go.

Leadership success confirms this necessity to communicate effectively.

Go ahead and check every seminar or book on public speaking and you’ll see that leadership skills are mentioned almost without fail.

If you break down all of the benefits public speakers provide the audience they’re all applicable to being better leaders.

• Listening
• preparation
• practice
• passion
• confidence
• conversation

These are only a few of the public speaking skills you’ll need to improve in if you aspire to be a better leader.

Apply it what you would do to improve the results of a business team you manage.

If you’re a solid public speaker then you’ll be able to communicate with your teammates better and possibly improve results if necessary.

What career benefits come from public speaking?

Improved communication skills.

How does public speaking improve communication?

It’ll teach you to articulate things clearly, engage with your audience effectively, and become an active listener.

This connects you better with whoever you talk to.

Most of the time you’ll be rehearsing and presenting information to your audience.

It’s usually first on the list of people who seek career advancement.

On top of it all you also get a huge boost in confidence as a result.

Every time you speak the more confident that you’ll be able to do it again.

That can be crucial if you’re looking for distinction in a competitive job market.

From the ability to connect, influence decisions potentially and motivate change it makes seeing how public speaking is valuable.

There was a deep explanation that I found on Quora on ‘How to improve your public speaking skills’.

I found the story more inspiring if anything because it’s a Ted Talk speaker that shares a story of them continuing to speak despite reasons to stop.

It actually meshes well with my point earlier on doing more speaking builds confidence.

What makes public speakers so influential?

They motivate people.

They’re seen as credible, and qualified to be able to speak on the topic.

Their confidence becomes attractive to everybody listening.

Magnetic Speaking shares 9 Characteristics of Effective Public Speakers that I think you’ll find interesting.

You’ll find that professionals in their field will convincingly express gratitude for taking the time to better their public speaking skills.

One of the best I found was a Reddit user arguing the importance of public speaking skills for engineers.

You can find the discussion here.

Making social connections

Your social connections come with knowing your audience as a speaker.

It develops into more genuine relationships because you’re defining your purpose.

The reward is getting authentic and meaningful friendships with your associates.

You can have thoughts as a leader that gets engaged with at a desirable rate.

It’s dependent on your ability to continually push out quality content.

There’s announcements that get made and your audience witnesses your actions match what you say.

Accurate thoughts

Most effective public speakers have the exceptional talent of being precise.

It gets shown through gestures and mainly other non verbal cues that make the conversation more interactive.

Personal relationships

Personal relationships get formed in public speaking through the stories presenters share.

There’s transparency that’s inevitable when you continue speaking to an audience and it continues to grow.

Personal satisfaction

I get a personal satisfaction and probably greater than average appreciation for public speaking ability because of the importance of communication.

When you know that you communicated a thought well it feels complete.

Final thoughts

Public speaking skills are important because it develops:

• Leadership skills
• Boosts confidence
• Making social connections
• Accurate thought
• Personal relationships
• Personal satisfaction

This was inspired from an earlier post on what philosophers do.

Public speaking expands further than just that one profession.

If it’s prioritized you’ll see the benefits spill over into other areas of your life.