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Pace, as a Professional Conference and Event MC, I’m fortunate to see my fair share of speakers and whilst I fundamentally believe that there are times during your presentation when a fast pace serves you well (i.e. to rev the crowd up and/or get people really excited) a rapid pace is not sustainable for the duration of a presentation, especially for your audience.

Silence at events is rare but Golden. Yet integrating silence into your presentation or speech can be as simple as pausing for a second or 2. The irony is that when you’re presenting and keep quiet (not using filler words like um, or argh, more on filler words soon) the quality and balance within your presentation will sky-rocket and for you to bank this

Each and every one of us has a natural ‘tone range’ (from high to low) within which we generally operate and the bigger the Event or Conference stage, the more important your Tone of voice. Not only will the wrong tone likely convey the wrong message – but a flat or compressed tone range will make it difficult to build and maintain audience