What is public speaking?
Public speaking is the ability to deliver a clear, audience-relevant message while managing attention, timing, and the normal activation that comes with being observed.
Explore how well you prepare a message, connect with an audience, and stay useful when speaking pressure rises.
Answer as you are today
Choose the answer that best describes your recent behaviour at work. No email required.
What does public speaking mean?
Public speaking is the ability to deliver a clear, audience-relevant message while managing attention, timing, and the normal activation that comes with being observed.
Why it matters at work
Speaking well helps leaders make priorities understandable and decisions memorable. Confidence often follows preparation and repeated exposure; it does not require eliminating every sign of nerves.
What this assessment measures
Message preparation
Choosing one outcome and building a simple path to it.
Delivery under pressure
Using pace, voice, and body deliberately despite nerves.
Audience connection
Making the message relevant and reading the room.
How to interpret your score
Your overall result is normalised to a 0–100 scale. Use it to choose a practice area, not to compare your worth with somebody else.
Build your public speaking foundation
Your answers point to a few recurring situations where a simple routine could make your response more reliable.
A useful public speaking base
You already use this skill in some situations. The opportunity is to make it more dependable when pressure or ambiguity rises.
A strong public speaking pattern
Your answers suggest a reliable pattern. Keep testing it in harder situations and watch for the dimension that trails the others.
Designed for reflection, not diagnosis
The ten behaviour-based statements cover 3 practical dimensions. Responses run from “Never” to “Almost always”; negatively worded items are reverse-scored. Overall and dimension results are converted to a 0–100 scale. The assessment is educational and has not been psychometrically validated.
Read the full assessment methodology and editorial standards.
Research that informed this page
Graham D. Bodie (2010), “A Racing Heart, Rattling Knees, and Ruminative Thoughts: Defining, Explaining, and Treating Public Speaking Anxiety”, Communication Education.