Any speech trainer will remind you often of the need for effective gestures, including facial expression and other body language, to add visual and emotional emphasis and clarity to your presentation. Or just to help people understand how something looks or works.
But what is the best way to develop this skill? Watch how veteran presenters in live situations or on television combine ideas and feelings -- how they help their audience to appreciate the significance of something through facial expressions or emphatic gestures or how something looks or works with descriptive gestures
You'll see many many good examples of this on television or in the movies of course. Nancy Grace of HLN, is one who comes to mind. Her facial expressions are a mirror of her inner feelings about the the different criminal investigations and court cases she covers.
And those inner feelings are where your most natural and effective facial expressions and gestures come from. Study your material. Know it well. Think about what the information means to you. How it affects you. Feel it, visualize it. Then your voice, your hands, and your face will help your audience to appreciate and understand it the same way that you do.
In other words, get lost in your material just like a good actor does and you do when you are trying to explain something that has really touched you to a friend or friends.
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