VISUAL DELIVERY OVERVIEW

Training & Coaching Objectives

  • Improve believability by enhancing one’s natural presentation style.

  • Project confidence with strong posture and purposeful movement.

  • Gain attention and maintain interest with continuous eye communication.

  • Energize presentation with gestures and facial expressions.

  • Emphasize meaning and reflect emotion with pausing and vocal variety.

  • Use positive body language when responding to questions.

Coordinated movement of body and words engages audiences

Three separate scenes of people engaged in professional conversations. In the top-left, a woman with curly hair gestures as she talks to a man in glasses. In the top-right, a woman with red hair and a striped shirt talks passionately to a man with brown hair, both sitting at a table. In the bottom-left, three people, two men and a woman, sit and have a discussion, smiling and holding notebooks.

Audiences prefer an animated delivery rather than a stiff delivery. Animation engages audiences with variety, while stiffness bores audiences to sleep. However, too much movement of one delivery skill without the natural complement of another may serve to distract more than attract audience attention. For that reason, improving animation requires coordination, not isolation.

For instance, a speaker’s stiff focus on a visual aid is not solved by an occasional looking or moving away. Such a solution leads to repetitive and distracting movement. Instead, a strategic pause is needed to focus eye contact on an audience member and then to follow eye contact by walking to a decisive location. Upon reaching location, assume open posture before delivering content.

Audiences influenced more by visual and vocal delivery

A slide titled 'Effective presentations are:' showing a pie chart with three sections labeled 'your voice,' 'non-verbal communication,' and 'your content,' with respective percentages of 38%, 55%, and 7%.

For many speakers, preparation mainly involves organizing content. Very little, if any, time is spent practicing content delivery. When delivery skills are not practiced, speakers risk delivering a message that distracts, more than attracts, audience attention. As a result, preparation time and energy produce a dismal performance.

The BOOST Method prioritizes the development of visual and vocal skills. Speakers learn how to use their body and voice to enhance their individual delivery styles. This approach emphasizes the regular practice of visual and vocal skills, so that the effective skills become habitually incorporated into their presentations, no matter the content.

Movement commanding space displays confidence

Collage of three people giving presentations on stage. The first person is a woman in a black jacket and skirt, standing alone with bright lights behind her. The second person is a woman in a gray sweater and gray pants, holding a clicker and gesturing. The third person is a man in a white shirt and glasses, pointing with one hand while standing in front of a dark curtain.

Audience members are generally more attentive when a message is delivered with confidence, as it gives an impression that what is being delivered is worth receiving. Without confidence, speakers risk revealing nervousness, failing to establish a solid connection with their audience. Furthermore, the situation worsens when nervous energy is not channeled for a healthy release.

No matter how uneasy or apprehensive they feel, speakers display confidence when they practice skills that project confidence. The practice routine begins with a certain posture, signaling openness to the audience. The features of the posture serve to launch speakers into periodic and purposeful movement, while commanding floor and air space with body and voice.