D is for Delivery
There are dozens of components to a speaker’s Delivery, but they can be collected into three basic categories:
- Vocal cues (volume, pitch, rate, and pauses)
- Visual cues (gestures, movements, facial expressions, and the use of visual aids)
- Integration of the visuals and vocals with other rhetorical techniques (such as storytelling, examples, and metaphors)
The tips below will help novice and advanced speakers improve practice sessions and focus on the most important components of speech delivery.
“It is delivery that makes the orator’s success.”
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe