So how do you pace a speech or a presentation, the biggest problem most people have is they get a little nervous, they start speaking too quickly. And when you speak too quickly, it tends to flatten out your voice. It essentially destroys the punctuation of speaking if you're reading a book, you have certain cues to your eye, a comma means a pause a period, a longer, pause a paragraph, break a longer pause, an actual chapter and a white sheet of paper in between is an even longer break. But when you're speaking, if everything sort of comes out, well, here's my next data point. Here's my next data point. Here's my next data point.

It's like reading one big run on sentence with no punctuation. You could do it, but it's a lot of work. So you need to put in pauses. You need to catch your breath. Sometimes you can do this by walking a few feet, not saying anything. You need to look at Audience members and see, are you getting it?

Sometimes toss out a question to the audience, actually have them answer it. Sometimes you toss out a question and it's simply a rhetorical question. And you let people think about what you said. You need pauses throughout your speech, and you need variation in speed and tone. sameness is what kills a speech. Consistency is what kills a speech.

People think, Oh, I'm being very professional. Everything's even keeled. Now you don't want to be even keeled. You want to be conversational. That means sometimes faster, sometimes slower, sometimes louder, sometimes softer and sometimes a pause is what's most effective. That's how you pace your speech.