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Developing a Persuasive Delivery Style

Developing a persuasive delivery style takes a lot of practice and involves working on

your voice, body language, and eye contact with the audience. The different aspects of
your delivery may have to alter depending on the size of your audience, so ensure your
style is flexible.

Voice

Body language

Eye contact

Features of Persuasive Delivery

Most people are aware that they have certain mannerisms or modes of speech that
whilst being perfectly acceptable in conversation can become irritating when they are
making a presentation. Some of these mannerisms are the result of nerves and will

disappear naturally as you gain confidence, whereas others can only be eradicated by
conscious effort and practice.

Voice

One aspect of presentation delivery that almost everyone needs to focus on is avoiding

inappropriate verbal mannerisms. These usually take one of four forms: droning, aural
punctuation, hesitation, or verification.

Droning refers to speaking without varying the pace of delivery. This is very boring to
listen to even if the underlying subject matter is interesting. Try to speed up your
delivery when you are saying something relatively straightforward speeding up when
something is easy to understand is quite acceptable.

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