What to Do with Your Hands | Public Speaking Video Lecture | Public Speaking: Learn and Boost your Confidence (English) - Communication

one of the first things people ask me
about public speaking is teaching what
do I do with my hands when I'm giving a
speech
it's as if they had no longer have
control it's like these things have been
stapled to their shoulders and they no
longer have control do with your hand
what you do all day long with your hands
when you're speaking you move your hands
it's that simple all human beings are
wired that way it's a huge huge myth
that somehow it's wrong to move your
hands or that somehow professional
speakers are supposed to grab the
lectern or do this or the hand in a
pocket like that that's all a bunch of
nonsense what you want to do with your
hands is move them in a natural normal
way now I can tell you I had secretly
videotaped people in my public speaking
classes for years all human beings not
just once from Italy not just once from
certain continents or countries all
human beings move their hands when they
speak now in theory it's possible to be
moving your hands and gesturing so
wildly that you're distracting in theory
all I can tell you is I have trained
tens of thousands of clients from six
continents for nearly 30 years I have
never yet had a client who moved and
gestured way too much and yet every week
sometimes every day in a week I have
people do this
hi I'm very happy and relaxed and
comfortable to be here today or
something like this or this and they
look scared and stiff and uncomfortable
you don't want people focusing on
looking uncomfortable you want them
focused on your message and you want
them in their gut to have the impression
that you're comfortable relaxed and
authoritative no one's gonna come up to
you after a speech and say wow I really
liked the way you moved your hands in
that speech it's not going to be
something that they process at the
intellectual level but at the gut level
they will perceive you as more
comfortable
and relaxed simply by you moving your
hands