How to have good eye contact when speaking in public

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The 1st time I gave a presentation at university I remember staring to the back of the room and not looking at anyone. This was because if I was ever in a school play I was told don't look at the audience directly. This is correct for acting but not for public speaking. A public speaker needs to engage the audience by making eye contact.

What is good eye contact?

Look at a member of the audience state one sentence and move on to someone else, and so on. If you do this right a common comment you will get from your audience is that, "I felt like they were just talking to me."

Here are some important rules on using good eye contact: * Don't just scan across the room. Look at one person for a few seconds and then move on to someone else * Make sure you move your whole head and not just your eyes. That just makes you look shifty. * Try to include as many people as you can with your eye contact. Don't just look at the same 3 people and move between them.

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• public
• speaking
• for
• kids
• children

[swirlcrop]

This guy needs furniture. 

[kush700]

don't just move your eyes, It'll just look shifty

[MrChannel5news]

Man.... i shouldve learned this when i was younger.....

[NauticTL]

Very good.

[ryaazproductions]

that is a little bit hard cuz when im looking at someone and im going to the next one im like scanning the whole class

[zymlrigor]

nice, very good

[FireminionKakashi]

Thnak you so much for this video, without it, i would of scanned the audience like a radar!!!!!

[ammasgirl]

I hate making eye contact in public speaking!