Enthusiasm

Your enthusiasm is your key to a Great Presentation.

You can: Tailor Your Presentation; Be Organized; Be Prepared - BUT, if you don't deliver the goods with enthusiasm they will not listen.

Enthusiasm for public speaking is displaying the proper emotions for your presentation.  It cannot be excitement.  If you were talking about 'death' you would have to talk about it in an exciting way then.

Your use of words will be important in communicating your enthusiasm.
Simplicity is a great rule of thumb.
Being specific
Use vivid or concrete terms – get them to see it, touch it, smell it,
Get them to experience it or feel it emotionally
Use similes, metaphors, analogies
Alliterations

Your nonverbal communication is the most important element to communicate your enthusiasm.
Your physical movement and interaction with your visuals and the audience will create the energy to keep the audience involved in your presentation.
Proxemics – distance between you (the speaker) and your audience and your visual
Body orientation – shoulders squared up with the audience – moving the torso – span the audience
Posture – watch leaning on lecterns, podiums, dry/chalkboards, and counters or sitting on tables.  Consider the nature of your content and situation.
Hand/arm Gestures – General, Expressive, and Descriptive
Appearance
Facial Expressions
Eye Contact – strong 90% and up; good 80-89%; improve 70-79%; poor 69-less; reading
3 – C’s of eye contact: Control, Confidence, and Credibility
F-word: Feedback – Understanding, Confusion, Agreement, and Disagreement. (there are others)
You are not looking to see if they like/dislike you or your topic. That does not matter – your message is the most important.
Vocal Quality is known as paralinguistic. Para – beyond: linguistic – word. So, beyond the word. Your vocal quality influences every single word you utter.
Pitch
Rate
Volume
Fluency / Disfluencies – pause, silence part of vocal. Um’s, errr's and other sounds we make.

SPICE

Here are some elements of spice that you could add to your speech.

Humor

Acitivity

Bring it Home - Bring the info closer to home. Example: national stats are nice but, what is the local information. The international story is good but, the local story has better impact.  

Importance

Demostration / Role Play

Your visuals can be a form of spice

Music / videos

YOU are the number one piece of spice. The topic you choose

No such thing as an exciting topic. You make it so. If topics were exciting – no matter how you presented them they would always be exciting. Could you imagine Ben Stein giving you a passionate talk about sex!

You are in charge of the level of enthusiasm in your presentation.  From your topic selection, to your organization and preperation, to your final delivery you are in charge.