Verbal and non-verbal communication: how to be a good speaker?
"Verbal and non-verbal communication: how to be a good speaker?" - a training session on this topic was held for students of the International Relations, Public Communications, Regional Studies study programme by Svitlana Nakonechna, an expert in public speaking.
The speaker advised the students of West Ukrainian National University on what public speaking techniques they should use. Svitlana Nakonechna noted: "A good speaker inspires trust, emotions, focuses attention, intrigues, and inspires. Among the principles that keep the audience's attention are an interesting beginning, a slow delivery, use of names, pauses, and questions to the audience. Be one step ahead of your viewer and listener, imbue the text with the emotions that listeners are meant to feel during your story."
Among the ineffective methods of public speaking, the expert highlighted the following: learning the text by heart, artificial eye contact techniques, and artificial gestures.
The training session was held in a mixed format, so students living abroad were able to join it.
The event was held as part of the course "Organisation of Public Communications". Liudmyla Kominiarska, PhD in Social Communications, moderated the event.
The meeting, which took place in the reading hall of the L. Kanishchenko Library of WUNU, was attended by Oksana Tulai, Head of the Department of International Relations and Diplomacy at West Ukrainian National University, faculty members, library director Kazymyr Voznyi, and library staff.
