Edit Article  Edited by Blizzerand, Lucky7, Flickety, Jack
Herrick and 22 others  Being a good speaker requires planning,
clarity of thought and a well constructed beginning, middle and
end to your speech. It is important to avoid creating confusion
or leaving your listeners feeling that you have wasted their
time. Follow these steps and people will appreciate what you
have to say.  Edit Steps    1. 1     Make eye contact. Eye
contact is very important. You can look above the people's head
because it looks like your looking right at them, but you're
really not! Don't overdo it or you'll risk looking like you're
nodding your head or you can appear stiff.   2. 2     Have a
point and stick to it. In some settings you must speak on a
certain subject. Even in casual conversation, though, it is
important to focus on a limited set of related ideas. If you
drift from one tangentially related idea to the next your speech
becomes a sort of bad poetry or misplaced filibuster that may
quickly bore the listener.   3. 3