If you are a public speaker, you know how important it is to win over your audience from the get go. This means speaking in such a way to force your audience to look at you, especially when you begin speaking. Public speaking is not an attribute or event that anyone can do. It takes many skills including perseverance, patience, a positive attitude, and the ability to motivate a crowd.

If you want to be a great public speaker, from the very beginning you have to impress your audience. This means you need to produce a great speech introduction. To be able to do that, you have to know your material extremely well, and then be able to deliver it in a way that does not bore you audience. A great way to start off your speech is to grab your audience right in the introduction There are a number of ways this can be achieved. You could maybe look at your audience as you are heading up to the front and yell some kind of message or instruction requiring a response. Or as you made your way from the back of the room you could walk across a chair or two, or maybe even a desk. That would surely grab your audience's attention.

Other examples of speech introduction may be when you tell your audience to take out a piece of paper and prepare to write down a list of the most important topics you will give in the speech. This will raise their anticipation level, knowing to expect something valuable to be told to them. Or, you can start off your speech by telling a spellbinding story. That will really captivate your audience in a hurry and hold their attention. This is especially true if you are an enthusiastic speaker.

Listen to the experts around you to help learn how to start a speech, especially if you are new to public speaking. Paying attention to those who have been public speaking for years will give you a trick or two and also improve your own delivery.

The key to presenting your speech is by having a great speech introduction, and then go forward with your audience in mind and give them a reason to react to you and listen to what you have to say. If you do this, you will find your ability at public speaking will increase and you'll gain more speaking opportunities.