Improving Your Public Speaking Skills. We’ll start with 9 specific tips that’ll help you improve your skills as a speaker! 1. Slow Down Most inexperienced speakers talk faster on stage than they realize – and it’s completely understandable. When you’re giving your talk, you’re nervous, anxious, and you’re trying to hold all the information you need to present in your head. All you want to do is get through your speech so you can get off the stage and go someplace where people can’t judge you. Unfortunately, this can cause you to rush through your speech far too quickly, which make the information you’re presenting hard to understand. Some people will say, “Speak half as fast as you think you need to,” – either way, just be conscious that you probably need to slow down. 2. Pay Attention to Your Body Language If you paid close attention to that fake TED talk, you probably also noticed that Guy Pearce’s character employs excellent body language during his speech. ...