Early on, although working in radio stations, I studied that ‘dead air’ is a bad thing.

Dead air means silence, inadvertent silence, that is. So, whenever I happened to be standing in the hall, for instance, & heard no music or voice for more than a couple of seconds, I would quickly control to watch what had happened in the announcer’s booth or the news booth.

Speakers & presenters, too, often conveive of silence as a bad thing. But, they ought not. In fact, silence, as in a long pause, may be wonderfully powerful.

Pause for a moment earlier you start speaking, & you will almost immediately have the tending & respect of everybody in the audience. Any whispering that had gone on will stop, as will the shuffling of feet & papers, & the beginning & closing of briefcases & purses.

The same holds whenever you lose the tending of the consultation department path through your speech or presentation. Pause, appear systematically around the room at everybody in the audience, & you will have them back with you again.

Pause for a long moment whenever you need to accent a point. When you pause, you not only get the tending of the audience, but you produce a counterpoint between the silence & the audio of your voice.

You’ll as well find pauses helpful when you alter from one matter to different within your presentation. In this case, the pause signals that something’s about to change, peculiarly whenever you foreshadowed the new matter as you wrapped up the preceding section.

Of course, you may as well pause when you lose track of wherever you are in your presentation. Deliberately stop, appear at the consultation as whenever you had planned to cease at this point, compile your thoughts, & then start again.

In summary, do not be afraid of pauses or long moments of silence in a introduction or speech. They may get & hold tending finer than almost something you may say.

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