Developing a Wonderful Speaking Skill

Having a good speaking skill will help you a lot throughout your SSB as well as your whole life. An error free speech, with a good tone and a good pitch is not liked by whom? Speaking power will sail your boat thoroughly through the storm of Lecturette, GD, Interview Conference and a lot of more things very smoothly. Hence there are a lot many benefits of having a good speaking skill. Here are some things which are essential for a good speaking skill and you must keep these things in mind to have a winning speaking style.

• Watch Your Tone: Your tone that is the intensity of your voice plays a major role. If you are having a very loud voice then you may appear rude and if you are having a very timid voice then you might not be heard at all. Hence practice your tone well. You can ask any of your close one to listen you speaking and then tell you whether you are sounding okay, loud or weak.
• Maintain Your Posture: While giving lecturette or interview or in GD your posture plays a very important role. If you are using too much of hand gestures then it may look very dramatic. Similarly your slouchy body will reflect your laziness and lack of confidence. If you get up from your chair while arguing in GD may reflect your non-adjustable nature. Hence maintain a firm and straight posture while speaking; this will automatically enhance your speech.
• Go slow with the speed: While speaking it is very important that you go neither too slow nor very fast. Hence make it a habit to speak in a proper speed neither fast nor slow. To achieve this also you have to practice well before.
• Eye-Contact: Maintaining an eye contact while speaking is very important. Imagine when somebody is speaking to you and looking somewhere else, how will you feel? Eye-contact reflects your confidence. Make it habit to speak looking directly into the eye of the listener.
• Choice of word and content: Your choice of words should be appropriate and easy. If you are using too fancy words and nobody is able to understand they’ll lose interest. Similarly the content which you are speaking must also be appropriate and relevant. Like in GD or lecturette speak only on the thing you know well, speaking merely for the stake of speaking is not advisable. One more important thing is that if you are choosing any word to be included in what you are speaking, then be sure about the correct meaning of the word, especially in interview.
• Smile: No it is not necessary to show all your 32 teeth while speaking that will look amusingly funny, but maintain a calm and smiling face is necessary. It will raise your level of confidence and also make you look good. Promise yourself to not frown even when the whole group is against you in GD and even when the Interviewer is banging you!

Benefits of having a good speaking skill

A good speaking skill will help you in tackling GD and Lecturette very confidently. This something which is in our hand and we can practice it well before, so if you are able to express yourself nicely then it’ll give you an advantage over others. In the interview also you’ll feel confident. The best way to improve your speech is to practice lecturette daily.

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 Tashi Mishra, Editorial Team

She is a defense aspirant from Varanasi completed her BCA. She has attended SSB Interview at 1 AFSB Dehradoon and has more SSB coming up. She is confident about joining Defence Forces one day. Here, she is sharing her views and experience. Mail us to join our editorial team now.