In a post published by Abhimanyu Das on ideas.ted.com, he summarises how we can improve our public speaking through some easy tweaks of our body language not limited only to our hands and arm gestures.

Here are the 7 ways listed by the author:

1) Lean towards your audience

2) Match your gestures to your words

3) Give your hands a rest

4) Tilt your head

5) Smile like you mean it

6) When you slip up, don’t panic

7) Practice — even when you’re not in front of a crowd

8) Watch this TEDxZagreb talk now

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