Effective Public Speaking in Business Presentations
February 1, 2010 by Doug · Leave a Comment
Effective Public Speaking in Business Presentations: Tips on how to design and deliver business presentations for your next meeting or training session
By Doug Staneart
Right or wrong, people form a perception about how competent you are by how you present yourself when you stand and speak. They also form perceptions about the company you represent based on your performance. In fact, public speaking is an easy way to set yourself apart from your competition, because when you stand up and say what you want to say, they way that you want to say it, you are doing what 95% of the people in the audience wish they could do. A person who is confident in front of a group gives off an air of competence, whereas a person who fumbles Read more
How to Reduce Public Speaking Anxiety
February 1, 2010 by Doug · Leave a Comment
How to Reduce Public Speaking Anxiety
Seven steps that you can take to better P.R.E.P.A.R.E. for your next speaking event. These are time-tested tips to reduce nervousness.
By: Richard M. Highsmith, M.S.
“I can’t believe I agreed to do this speech. Look at all those people out there! My knees are shaking, and my stomach feels like I just went over the top of a roller coaster. My heart is beating so fast and hard my tie is jumping. I just want to scream and run away!”
Speaking in public is often cited as the number one fear of adults. The Book of Lists places the fear of death in fifth place while public speaking ranks first. Jerry Seinfeld said, “That would mean at a funeral, people are five times more likely to want to be in the casket than giving the eulogy.”
Let’s look at some techniques to deal with the anxiety and give an excellent presentation. The methods are Read more
How to Scare the Gooey out of a New Public Speaker
February 1, 2010 by Doug · Leave a Comment
95% of the population has some type of fear of public speaking, and a great deal of this nervousness or anxiety comes from well-meaning friends or coworkers who offer constructive criticism as a way to help a new presenter improve his/her public speaking. Public speaking is not unlike any other new skill that is developed in that when we try to speak in front of a group for the first time, every one of us will be nervous (just like the first time you used a computer, or the first time you drove a car, or the first time you rode a bicycle.) What happens next, though Read more
