Public Speaking Skills - Reading

Effective public speaking skills requires you to give a speech in the way appropriate for the circumstances. Although reading your speech is not usually the best way to deliver it, there are times when it maybe the best - when delivering a highly technical paper or a political speech and where you need to be careful when every word will be scrutinized either by the press or lawyers or both.

To get the best from reading your speech, it is a good idea to practice the delivery of it. You want your voice to be as natural and interesting as you can. Practice also looking up from your speech to look out and up at the audience and to gesture and move also if possible. An example of a great ability to read a speech is Barack Obama's inaugural speech.