Public speaking for anyone in business is one of the best ways to attract clients in your community. If you want to, you can eventually be a paid speaker. But let's take public speaking for introverts and consider top three innate strengths we have for a solid foundation to make it work easily.

If you already believe introverts must be poor at public speaking because they lack the social skills, consider at least two things: first, as an introvert you already have many natural tendencies to be well-received on the platform and second, more demanding audiences today want to see evidence of this from the speakers they listen to.

-#1 - Analytical tendencies are needed to prepare and present. Know your audience, know your topic, be creative. Research of the audience and topic is naturally satisfying to introverts. Just as planning uses the front of the brain, introverts will find up front preparation adds to the success of a well-received presentation. Relax and savor your planning tendency.
-#2 - Listeners want you to say something important. Audiences don't want to hear small talk; they want to hear what is relevant for them. Yes; we might as introverts want to learn how to insert some humor, encourage participation or even handling of a few difficult participants. But in the end, if you want a presentation score of 10 and a paycheck as a paid public speaker, our advantage of innately speaking only what is important, gets us 80% there.
-#3 Be the observer, not the participant. Introverts observe and listen before commenting. Speaking in public allows you the chance to observe, listen and then make a conscious decision of how to continue or which direction to go with a well-planned presentation. With your intuition highly tuned, give yourself permission to observe the reaction of the audience to know if and when to make a presentation adjustment.

These are just a few introvert natural strengths; many extroverts have to learn these very characteristics. This means we already have a solid foundation for public speaking. Do we have to learn some other pieces? Of course; but that's no different than anyone else needing to learn what they don't have.

What do you think about bringing your strengths to the party of speaking in public? Are you willing? Because you are ready.

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