Gesture, the Art of expression
You see the qualities in those speakers who have their own styles and hand-gestures. So what are you going to do? Mimic them? Please don’t. If Mr. Johnson flings his hand in the air in the midst of his sentence, and there’s another Mr. James stomping on his feet to create the impact, and yet another Mr. Jason pointing his finger to the audience repeatedly, doesn’t mean you have to do the same thing while speaking.
If enthusiasm is the seed within the speech itself, then gesture might be the fertilizer for the seed to germinate, but nonetheless, there’s never a book of rules to adhere. Gestures must be born and done naturally not built or could be mimicked in one way or another, otherwise, you might not realize you are gesturing with robotic effects.
It is not only impossible to lay down each gesturing rule but it would be silly to even attempt to. Why complicates simple things further, when humankind has invented wheels that work, there’s no need to reinvent wheel once again? so said the wise old man.
It might be easy to forecast the nation’s unemployment rates by just looking at the data itself, but you would never have expected what the speaker is going to gesture next; whether he will be stomping on his feet, or pointing his finger to create the impacts he needed.
The purpose of your gesture is to carry your message to the hearts of the listeners, and of creating the impact by expression in action. Therefore, let it be remembered that every gesture involves the whole of your physical being and not merely limited to your hands alone.
Remember this; don’t be robotic, never show any kind of gesture after you have finished speaking a sentence. Have you ever seen a speaker use such a grotesque, awkward gesticulations that you were fascinated NOT by his volume of speech he brings, but his/her frenzy of oddity? Never overdo your own gestures, any gesture that calls attention to itself more than your message is bad.