How to speak naturally from memory as it would beFrom heart?

Every speech, presentation, conversation, or media appearance is a public performance—and persuading listeners is about much more than conveying information. When you present, you must convey your ideas with passion, reaching out to your audience with purpose and power. Your tools of performance, including body language and vocal expressiveness, are critical to your success.

Hi there - I present a lot - I love it.

Here is how I achieve what you are describing.

Write your presentation in detail - it does not have to be word for word - as long as it is detailed. DO NOT LEARN IT.

Then go back through and make bullet points for yourself of the key 'headings' but make them a bit more than just a heading, include the important points you want to impart.

LEARN THOSE.

Then you have a perfectly learned structure (plus of course the slides to remind you of the flow), and you know your topic because you wrote it in detail. When you present, talk about and around each of your private bullet points - as this is not learned it will sound more real and more passionate, without sacrificing structure or performance. Give it a try and adapt it to your own needs and style - it has worked well for those I have suggested it to in the past.

And don't forget to believe in yourself - ultimately that is the key ingredient - and the thing people will react to the most.

You have to develop this and it is by constant practise.You can use the aid of laptops for your presentations.Thanks

Here are six steps to get you started:

1. Set goals

What do you want to achieve? Do you want to get coverage in the media, generate X number of leads or ingratiate yourself with an important organization?

2. Target your audience

Based on your goals, pinpoint the audience you’re trying to reach and research groups or organizations in your local area that attract that type of person. For instance, if you’re trying to market your accounting services to local small businesses, you might want to speak at at Chamber of Commerce, lead generation groups or volunteer for small business organizations like SCORE.

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What topics can you talk about that will enhance your image as an expert, be relevant to your audience and help “sell” your services? You’re not doing a hard sell, but your topic does need to relate to your product or service. Using the example above, an accountant seeking to land new tax preparation clients could talk about year-end tax planning, how recent changes in the tax code affect small businesses, or how to reduce your chances of being audited. Whatever you offer to talk about, be sure it’s something of real value to your listeners.

4. Be prepared

Although your speech shouldn’t be a sales pitch, be sure to bring business cards, fliers or brochures you can give to interested prospects. You might also want to place a sign-up sheet at the registration table where attendees can leave their names, addresses and/or e-mail addresses and sign up to get something from you—an e-mail newsletter, discount offer or free information.

5. Start small

I mentioned local groups, because if you’re at all unsure of your speaking abilities, you’ll want to start small. Practice with small groups and gradually build up your confidence before you try to add bigger venues. Have family members or trusted friends watch you practice your talk and give honest feedback, or videotape yourself and watch the tape so you’ll know what you need to improve.

6. Follow up

If you’re shy, your first instinct after your talk is over may be to scurry off as quickly as you can. But after your speech is precisely when you need to be friendly, open and available to opportunities. So hang around, talk to people and get to know the audience.

Once you get confident speaking in front of small groups, try offering to speak at industry events such as trade shows, conferences and panels. The more you speak, the more comfortable you’ll be in front of an audience—and the more your business will grow.

Try speaking in front of mirror. Record while speaking and rehearse it 4 or 5 times, it will help. Preparation is very important.

Thanks all this ideas are great.
I think that it would be also helpful to find what is the difference between speaking from heart and speaking from memory.

There has to be some difference, because almost everybody can say if he is speaking from memory or if he is speaking from heart.

But what makes this difference, exactly what, more spaces?
different voice tone?
tempo?

Finding this difference would allow to put attention on it, to add some characteristics to this speech. It would be completion of all posts and methods mentioned here...

yes it will be always ....

As a public speaking/presentation skills trainer, I echo what gonnastop says. Plan your presentation, write a structure and use bullet points to remind you. Rehearse what you want to say around each bullet point, but don't learn it word for word as this comes across as un-natural. You can either learn the bullet points, or you can use index cards with each bullet as the heading and a few prompts.

Ok, all yours ideas are great and helpful.

But there is one thing -
if i do it this way - not from memory but around bullet points, i will have to let my mind to connect ideas with words.

And i will loose high power.
Because if speaking from memory i am not natural but i can speak with power.
I can close my people to into some kind of bubble where nor them nor theirs minds can go into left or into right, when speaking from memory i can use so high emotional level that they can not concentrate on anything else other than my voice.

But when speaking not from memory, but naturally, i will have to allow my mind to search for words. So there will be something like yyyy, aaa,eeee...so this speaking will have small breaks and these spaces,breaks will allow users to go somewhere else for the moment.
But i dont want it.
I want to have them for few minutes only to my voice.

This way audience are taking a interest in listing rather than boring presentations..

My advice, righto out the main points of your presentation on a piece of paper once. This will help you get your thoughts on paper and in essence it will be stored in your memory.

Practice your presentation around the key points you have written down. Elaborate on each point for the presentation. Practice, practice and practice more! Everytime you do, your presentation might be different but the key points you want to convey will remain consistent.

But when someone will do only main points and talk basing on these points, than he will need time for thinking.
And it will create spaces in speech, every unnecessary space, every fill word like yyyyy aaaa, will result in losing attention.
But when speaking from memory i can catch peoples attention and force them to focus only on my voice.
I can speak with expression. I couldnt do that if i would have to think what to say.

When i was watching some of toastmasters best speech they were talking like from memory.
But they were also natural.

So finding this difference - how it is possible to see if someone is speaking from heart or from memory would allow me to do that.

Almost everybody can spot it, when someone is speaking from memory and when is speaking from heart.
But i have no idea HOW i know it, how anybody knows it, what makes this difference, what factors are deciding?

Hi! I think this is a great question because it's something all of us face when we speak in public.

Part of the issue is that when we speak conversationally the brain constructs speech 'on the hoof' or almost spontaneously, whereas when we speak any sort of prepared 'script' ( whether it's a verbatim script or just bullet points) we're working from prepared ideas.

I totally agree with gonnastop's points and would say that for me at least, the fluency and naturalness comes with practice and more practice so that you become liek a good actor who is using a script but appears to be speaking spontaneously.

Another method I use is responding to the audience through little things like eye-contact to responding to comments or with humour.

The more familiar you are with your material, the better, because you can then appear more natural.

I agree with practicing in front of the mirror and also recording or videoing yourself. You might feel crazy the first time but it really helps to identify and fine tune your presentation style. It also helps you to hear yourself from the audience's perspective.

And observe people speaking (I know you already do that!) so you can identify the subtleties that create the illusion of spontaneous speech.

yeah, idea of all here, and especially gonnastop are awesome, i will try that, but please if oyu or anyone else have more ideas - please write here. thanks.