Here's how you can give targeted and practical feedback to enhance someone's public speaking skills.

To provide targeted and practical feedback for improving someone's public speaking skills, observe their delivery closely. Identify specific areas for improvement, such as vocal variety, body language, or content organization. For example, if you notice that the speaker's voice lacks modulation and energy, you can suggest exercises to practice varying pitch and tone to engage the audience effectively. By focusing on observable behaviors and offering actionable suggestions, you empower the speaker to make tangible improvements in their public speaking abilities.

To give targeted and practical feedback, you need to be deliberate in seeing the details. You need to pay attention to their voice, body movements, facial expressions, and many more. An example of this is when I give targeted and practical feedback, which is that I listen intently to their pace of speaking if they use pauses, and if they use their hands to complement what they are saying. These are the things I can mention as feedback as something that can help the person level up.

Give feedback using the 3 V's of public speaking: 1) Verbal: what they said. Did they answer the question? Was it structured well? 2) Vocal: how it sounded. What was their tone and does it match their words? Do they sound confident? 3) Visual: how they looked. Do they have a confident presence? What about their facial expression or gestures conveys confidence or nervousness? This allows you to move from "that was good" to "you specifically sounded like an expert in your topic."

One of the pitfalls of asking for feedback from some random person is normally they will just say, "Good job!" Look for someone who can give technical and specific feedback. By being specific in the feedback, the person can actually know where they can improve and what to practice in the days moving forward.

Giving feedback to public speaking focuses on the message, the audience & where 'intentionality' is placed in the the messaging (descriptive, figurative language) * how to augment it with messaging with use of the body. For example, 'I saved a client '$10,000' delivered standing in one place with no vocal variety or body movement or body gestures is a lost opportunity in public speaking of the results achieved working with the public speaker'. Rather, 'working with us and the framework in our accounting agency saved a client'..$10,000 dollars' And delivering the phrase with arms raised, body movement towards the audience, & a deliberate, paced delivery of this sentence coupled with intentional voice volume increase- to a point of a 'cheer'.

Practice stage presence and body movements by researching or obtaining an image of the 'stage' area you will be presenting on. This allows your practice 'physically' to map out and plan your 'stage presences' for audience connection and impact/

Once you give the targeted and practical feedback, they need to practice and do it consistently. It takes time and practice to master a skill. They can practice on their own and also practice it with you. Be the person who believes in people that they can improve through consistent practice.

Following up with coaching colleagues or clients to their delivery, recommend a videographer for a public speech, or someone you know or can ask, to record your speech with a mobile phone. As a coach, I like to review the video before my meeting with a client and colleague and identify 'what is superb and great', and opportunities for improvement, or 'advanced level moves'. During the meeting, I share my overall thoughts at the beginning to build confidence, and then ask what they thought of their speech and work through all points discussed above. The critical point is balanced, supportive feedback with encouragement for their next speech. I prefer to attend the speeches 'live', to be a supportive face in the crowd, to build confidence.

Whenever you 'lose track' or 'freeze' on what to say next, take mental note 'what happened, and how you felt'. Journal these instances. Typically, it is because you looked at someone, who brought a negative feeling thought to your mind (e.g., they don't like me). These situations can be prevented by 'practicing' interrupts during your practice sessions with friends, colleagues or your public speaking coach. And, the actions 'to take' when this does happen (e.g., pause, looking at a few audience members intentionally, ask the audience to turn to someone next to them and ask' with what I just said - what resonates with you the most') for audience interaction and the ability to have to think and use audience answers to get on track.)