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A survey of America revealed that people are more frightened of speaking in public than of dying!

How incredible is that? To be more frightened of talking to a few people than of having your life ended.

It’s particularly surprising when you realise just how easily you can overcome your fear of public speaking. Using a program such as Unlimited Confidence can teach you tools to overcome this fear and be able to speak out when you need to.

When you talk about public speaking, people instantly think of standing on a stage in front of a huge audience presenting a lecture. However, public speaking is much more than just that. It could giving a speech at a wedding, doing a presentation at work, speaking out in a meeting, or for a club or society you belong to.

Being able to speak in public will help you to feel better about yourself and can help you get ahead in your career too. If you think about it, as you get higher up the ladder in your career, so you find you have to talk to more people and present; so this level of confidence becomes even more important.

This fear manifests physically before having to speak. It starts off as an anxiety, and then becomes a dry mouth, trembling muscles, rapid breathing, and a need to run to the bathroom. In worst cases it can involve sheer panic and the desire to run away.

So how can you get rid of this fear and feel more comfortable with speaking in front of people?

Firstly, you can practise. The more you do something the more confidence and comfortable you become doing it. You can join a group such as Toastmasters International which allows you to develop your communication and leadership skills. You can also volunteer to speak in front of any group of people too.

The Unlimited Confidence course teaches you some valuable tools to help you become more confident not only speaking in public, but in any situation. You will learn how to

* Instantly boost your confidence in seconds without anyone knowing what you are doing * Learn how to use body language to convey confidence * Discover how you can attach confidence to absolutely anything * And many more practical and effective techniques

You will also learn in this course how to use mental rehearsal to program yourself for more confidence, and this can be applied very easily to public speaking. You probably currently run a mental movie of you falling on your face and embarrassing yourself when you speak in front of a group. If instead of running that movie you saw yourself speaking really well, the audience enjoying it and you get applauded at the end, what do you think would happen?

Of course, I am sure you could think of a number of different areas of your life you could apply this technique to, couldn’t you?

Speaking in front of people is actually extremely easy with just a few small changes to the way you think – and you never know, you might even enjoy it!

Jason E. Johns is a personal success coach specializing in helping you become more confident through an innovative and compassionate approach. Discover how you can become full of confidence at his self confidence website, UnlimitedConfidence.com

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We all know that people, when they first meet us, form an opinion of us within the first few seconds. How you look and sound at the start of a presentation is vital. Your impact dictates how the audience will interpret your messages. If you have a low impact, the audience will tend to question everything you say. If you start with high impact, the audience will tend to ‘hear you out’.

Clearly when we are presenting to someone, we are communicating with them. So let’s remind ourselves of the way human beings communicate with each other.

Words 7% Tone 38% Body language 55%

So what does that tell us as far as presenting is concerned? If ‘words’ are only 7% of our ability to communicate, then we had better not rely on them! We have all seen presentations where the presenter did little but talk words at us, whether they read them from notes or from their visual aids, and we will remember how boring it was, how quickly we lost interest. Presentations like this don’t work. The speaker fails to get his message across. (We call these ’survival specials’, the speaker’s only objective being to ’survive’ the presentation and sit down when it’s over. There’s no attempt to achieve anything.)

For our presentations to have impact, therefore, we need to do more than just speak the words, we need to bring some variety into our tone of voice and use our body language positively. Why is body language so vital? To understand this we need to be aware of the power of the senses in receiving information during face-to-face communication:

Eyes 83% Ears 11% Touch 3% Taste 2% Smell 1%

So the body language we are using is hitting our audience’s most powerful and most used sense, the eyes. It is vital that we use our body language positively.

Nerves are a problem for all presenters. Everyone is nervous when they present, at least for a time. (We reckon if you’re not feeling nervous when you present then you need psychiatric help!). How nervous? Well it varies from person to person and from occasion to occasion. Even experienced presenters are nervous at the start of a presentation but what they know is that they will quickly calm down as they get into their talk. Inexperienced presenters think that nerves only happen to them. (I like surveys and this is one of my favourites – what makes people frightened? However many surveys are done on people’s fears, public speaking always comes out as number one. Death is usually third or fourth! Logically, people would rather die than stand up in front of an audience! I have learned never to run presentation skills courses in high buildings. If I have to, I make the participants pay in advance!)

Nerves affect the way we look on stage. We tend to loose control of our legs and our hands. We are so full of adrenaline that we can’t stand still. We ‘dance’ around stage; we fidget. Train yourself to stand still at the start of your talks, feet about shoulder width apart. And get your hands under control by holding hands with yourself at around navel height. By placing your hands there, they are in the best position for gestures to get going.

So how do we control these nerves? In the long run by doing lots of presenting. Experience teaches us to live with our nerves and teaches us that we do get over them a few seconds or minutes into our talks. In the short term, the secret is good preparation and understanding that you never look as nervous as you feel.

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Public speaking can be a rewarding experience that allows individuals to showcase their skills or knowledge in a public forum. Public speaking opportunities can allow an individual to help enrich the lives of anyone in the audience by impressing experiences or information that can have life changing qualities.

That being said, many individuals suffer extreme shyness or nervousness when faced with public speaking situations. These situations can range from large audiences of hundreds or thousands of participants to rooms with a few people present. Regardless of the situation, ensuring you have the proper level of public speaking self confidence will aid you remarkably in this foray.

When it comes to public speaking, possessing self confidence is a must. If you find your self confidence low or nonexistent, the best way to boost it up is to practice, practice, practice. Individuals with high self confidence have an ingrained sense that they can handle any and all situations, regardless who is watching or listening. These individuals are well versed in their specific subject matter and have a good idea of how they are going to present the information so that the audience will have the greatest understanding. Additionally, these individuals are capable of fielding questions on their particular subject and can explain the topic on several different levels.

If you find yourself unable to do this, begin preparing for your public speaking opportunity at once. Ensure your knowledge in the topic is high and seek out to learn as much as you can. This knowledge will help you indefinitely in both planning your speech and delivering the speech to an audience of individuals who may or may not be familiar with it.

Furthermore, in depth knowledge of your subject will aid you immensely when dealing with question and answer sessions that most likely will follow any public speaking opportunity. If necessary, ask other individuals about your topic and be able to explain the topic to individuals of all levels.

When writing your speech, take care to analyze your audience. If you are speaking to individuals who have a great understanding of the topic, you can clearly use a more in depth approach, more acronyms, and more jargon than if speaking to an audience unfamiliar with the subject.

Furthermore, know the average age and educational extent of your audience in order to create a speech that will speak directly to these individuals. After you have written your speech, being making notes and prompts to that use can use when giving your speech in public. Knowing your speech is written to the best of your ability will boost your self confidence, as will having the necessary notes and prompts that you can rely on while giving your speech.

When preparing for your speech, take care to not memorize the content. This may seem like a good idea, but can lead to disasterous results. If you find yourself to be nervous before you present any project or speech to a public audience, you might forget the content of your speech and be forced to pull it together from memory. Additionally, if you leave out a specific idea or topic from your speech, your audience may not clearly understand the topic of point of your presentation.

The best way to prepare for your speech is to make notes that allow cues or special points you should make in your speech. Have a general idea of what you plan to say and ensure the content covers these points. Also, have any visual materials carefully arranged in the order of presentation so that you will remember to include all items seamlessly in your presentation. Public speaking should not produce a crisis, and ensuring your self confidence is high in yourself and your capabilities will make all the difference in the quality of your presentation.

 

 

Tony Robinson spent many years as a School Teacher and Administrator. Always of concern was low self esteem and a lack of confidence with some students. For more information visit http://www.better-self-esteem.com

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