I am an engineering student and I have to prepare seminars frequently. Seminars count for the marks scored and credit. I'm given a topic, I prepare it thoroughly and make a good content slide.
All my problems occur while delivering the seminar speech. I end the seminars without the audience understanding much. I just can't speak properly on stage. How can I improve my presentation skills?
(I can help my friends understand the same topics clearly.)
Public speaking is undoubtedly an interpersonal skill. There is no downside to acquiring it. Lots of practice with safe audiences is essential. If you have money to splash around you can pay people to train you, but it is cheaper and better to seek opportunities to practice, at first outside your professional career. There is a huge amount of free advice online. The more you do it, the more confident you will become, and the more confident you become, the better a public speaker you will be.
I am now a confident public speaker because I have done it lots of times. When I started I was tongue-tied and inarticulate.
