Public Speaking Taboos
Public Speaking Taboos
In line with the 5 Dont’s in Public Speaking I have posted few weeks ago, here is another post similar to it — Public Speaking Taboos.
It is crucial to take note of the things you need to avoid in order to stay away from mistakes that would cost you a lot.
1. Do not take long pauses. Long pauses could imply uncertainty, mental block, or disorganized thoughts. Whatever your purpose be in taking pauses, make sure it is not too long for your audience to think that you have reached a point where you do not know or forgot what you will say. But there are some exceptions for taking long pauses, and this depends on the kind of public speaking task you have. In an interactive public speaking setting, you may take long pauses to make your audience think or ponder about something. If you think your long pauses are valid, communicate it to your audience properly
2. Do not talk too fast or too slowly. Talking too fast is an implication of nervousness. If you are feeling nervous, this is one negative tendency. Try to relax and utter your words clearly with a proper pace. While, talking too slow could make you to annoying and silly, robotic that is. It is also one manifestation of timidity, since you are too careful in every word you utter, you tend to speak too slowly. One exception to these two public speaking taboos is when you need to
3. Do not act superior than your audience. Acting, looking, or sounding superior than your audience whether it is intentionally of not will shun away your audience. They may resist, avoid, or reject you and your message even before you begin your speech. Therefore, do act or be superior than the people who are about to hear your message, instead be confident enough. Just the right level of confidence will do. Establish credibility and evoke proper strength as a speaker without intimidating your audience.
4. Do not act inferior than your audience. Acting, looking, or sounding inferior than your audience is a direct message to them that you are not a credible, reliable, and believable speaker. Inferiority is a close cousin of timidity, which is likewise one of the public speaking taboos. You could be misled that inferiority is another face for showing humility. They are not the same. You could be a humble public speaker without looking down to your self, or considering your self lower than your audience. Therefore radiate humility instead of inferiority.
Among these public speaking taboos, numbers 3 and 4 are the most challenging to avoid, because inferiority and superiority complex may be embedded into one’s character or personality; and that makes it tough to change or eradicate all at once. Besides, being humble and confident enough could not be learned all at once either.
Take into consideration these public speaking taboos and you will be close in delivering an effective speech!
Public Speaking Secrets
Public Speaking Secrets
You have read it right! There are public speaking secrets. Just how chefs and businessmen have secret ingredients and trade secrets. The difference is that they will never unfold them to anyone.
But here are public speaking secrets ready to be revealed.
1. Have a passion in public speaking. Just like in writing and in any endeavor one takes, passion is an indisputable element. You need this when things get tough in preparing for and delivering your speech. This will be the essential push specially when you do not “feel like” delivering a speech but you are obliged to. If at the moment you are not yet on the level of possessing such passion for public speaking, try “liking” it. If, again you are not yet ready to “like” it, try to “appreciate” it and the good things that come out from it.
2. Be true with your intention or purpose. Initially, your speech should be based on reality, except of course with fictional stories and rhetorical situations you choose to include in your speech. No fabricating or sensationalism with the purpose of winning your audience and attaining success and effectiveness as a public speaker. You will actually be defeating that purpose if you tell less than the truth.
If your purpose is to educate show and make your audience feel you really want them to learn. Do not intend to or imply a selfish purpose of making a name to yourself as this ever-intelligent and wise person (even if you were).
You will get what you desire the most if your intentions are pure and you couple it with faith and hard work.
3. Be sincere. Nothing penetrates the hearts and minds of your audience perfectly than sincere words. Mean every thing that you say. Even though you are dwelling with and relating facts and realities, you need to make sure you deliver them with sincerity.
Among these public speaking secrets, this one is the toughest one, because you shouldn’t be putting any effort on this on the first place. Sincerity should come naturally and effortlessly. It could be learned and developed in time but it shouldn’t be forced in any way.
4. Maintain humility. People have the tendency to block off cockiness. Once they have sensed “freshness,” you will be eliciting raised eyebrows instead of attentive eyes and ears. Even if you feel you are in the position to brag, don’t. Public speaking puts you in a position where you are supposed to get a lot of attention, be the center of attraction, be the talk of a group pf people, and be a star for a length of time; but do not act like a “diva.” Be truly humble to have been given such rare and wonderful opportunity to educate, enlighten, persuade, convince, inform, or entertain a group of people. Just like what I have mentioned in my previous posts, it’s not everyday you’ll get to speak and be heard.
Among these public speaking secrets this one requires more than your being a public speaker. Humility should be enveloped in your whole personality whether you are on the stage or not. Because humility does not come in an instant. It’s not like you will push a button just before you grab the microphone and then…just like magic, you are humble at once! Just as being sincere, you can not fake this. You need to carry humility wherever you are, in whatever you do so by the time it’s your time to speak, people would welcome you then they would listen to you and eventually treasure and apply your messages for them.
There are more than just public speaking secrets in order to deliver an effective speech so keep on browsing and learning how to prepare for that public speaking assignment!
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How to Deliver a Speech with Confidence
How to Deliver a Speech with Confidence
To be able to deliver a speech with confidence, you need to do a bunch of things.
1. Rehearse and Practice. The mere fact that you have given your self ample amount of time in practicing and rehearsing your speech will add up to your level of confidence in an instant. The mind set that you have put enough effort in preparing for your public speaking assignment will likewise make you more confident than impulsively jumping on the stage unprepared or “under-prepared.”
2. Like your speech. Basically, if you do not “like” the words or messages you will utter or give, you will not be enthusiastic in delivering your speech, and therefore sound less confident. If possible “love” your speech, and the confidence will naturally radiate from you.
3. Look at a friendly face. When you feel very low of yourself to successfully carry out a public speaking task, search for a friendly or smiling face amidst the audience and you will feel a boost of confidence like magic!
This actually happened to me when I was presenting my senior thesis paper in front of my college professors and dean. I was not that confident about my self and about my thesis. I started out very shy and reserved. I wanted to deliver a speech with confidence but I just felt so intimidated and insecure because I am in front of big-names in my college, and that my classmates’ presentations were very good.
At the middle of my presentation, I had a quick look at my dean who surprisingly gave a very friendly smile and a nodding head. Just like magic, my confidence boosted! All the while I thought I was doing a terrible job but that simple smile and calm look assured me that I am actually doing fine. That helped me go on with my presentation and finish with confidence.
4. Save enough confidence before speaking. Confidence either levels up or down. You could have it but it may not be enough; or have it and go way beyond the line. “Just enough” self confidence is achieved through equally enough time and enough work and effort. So, elicit enough of it from within you and maintain it until you finish your speech. Remember, you could lose that confidence in an instant by discouragement around you and negative thinking lingering in your head. Try to numb and rid your self of those negative vibes.
5. Expect that “you ca not please everyone.” When you expect something quite unfeasible like generalizing, you might end up disappointed which could automatically lower down your self-confidence.Success does not necessarily mean making a difference to everyone.
I remember “The Star Fish Story” by Loren Eiseley:
Once upon a time, there was a wise man who used to go to the ocean to do his writing. He had a habit of walking on the beach before he began his work.
One day, as he was walking along the shore, he looked down the beach and saw a human figure moving like a dancer. He smiled to himself at the thought of someone who would dance to the day, and so, he walked faster to catch up.
As he got closer, he noticed that the figure was that of a young man, and that what he was doing was not dancing at all. The young man was reaching down to the shore, picking up small objects, and throwing them into the ocean.
He came closer still and called out ‘Good morning! May I ask what it is that you are doing?’
The young man paused, looked up, and replied ‘Throwing starfish into the ocean.’
‘I must ask, then, why are you throwing starfish into the ocean?’ asked the somewhat startled wise man.
To this, the young man replied, ‘The sun is up and the tide is going out. If I don’t throw them in, they’ll die.’
Upon hearing this, the wise man commented, ‘But, young man, do you not realize that there are miles and miles of beach and there are starfish all along every mile? You can’t possibly make a difference!’
At this, the young man bent down, picked up yet another starfish, and threw it into the ocean. As it met the water, he said, ‘It made a difference for that one.’
Remember these helpful tips and you will surely deliver a speech with confidence!
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Public Speaking Skills
Public Speaking Skills
Public speaking skills just like any other skills are gained and polished through determination, persistence, patience, practice, and a lot of work and experience.
To be an effective speaker, you need to posses and hone the following public speaking skills.
1. Focused. “You get what you focused on.” In public speaking, your goal is to have a successful presentation, and to attain such success you should be an effective speaker, and to be so, you need to be focused. You need to put your mind, attention, body, and spirit into your speaking task. Do not be caught up by anything that goes outside your speech, anything that may disrupt you. You may have personal problems at the moment but just like what my choir teacher taught me, “you can not do anything about it right now, so focus on what you’re supposed to do and leave all distractions aside.”
2. Fluent in the language used. The word fluent is defined as: able to speak or write smoothly, easily, or readily. The smoothness, easiness, and readiness when speaking is a must. You should have a good command of the language you are to use in public speaking. Use the language you are most comfortable with. But this still depends on the setting or of your public speaking task. If it is an English class, of course you need to present your speech in English.
3. Powerful. You should be a powerful speaker, powerful in speech and in appearance for you to be able to create an impact or good effect on your audience. A speaker with not enough force is like a physically weak carpenter banging a nail with a hammer. Your message will not sink in like the nail which failed to be drilled into concrete. Sometimes your audience could be as ‘hard” as such concrete.
4. Convictional. This public speaking skill is the twin sister of “powerful.” They should go together. Even if you are powerful and display an agreeable force or strength if your audience sees a loop hole because you are lacking something — the appearance of being convinced, you are still half effective. If you want your audience to believe in your message, you should initially evoke a sense of conviction. Among these public speaking skills, this is the most difficult to possess and enhance, because you can not fake this, unlike being powerful. In a way you can sound and look powerful without much effort.
5. Prepared. This public speaking skill should come in handy before and during your public speaking assignment. Way before your presentation, prepare. And prepare well. During your speech, you should likewise be prepared specially for unexpected circumstances. Be prepared to answer questions to be thrown at you, if it was an interactive presentation. Be prepared in handling technical disruptions. Some speakers are too caught up by this kind of interruption that it triggers nervousness. Sometimes they can even be “lost” in their speech specially if it was a memorized speech. Be prepared in instances your memory may fail you. Be prepared to adlib; and make sure your audience do not notice you were startled. It is ok to be alarmed by such untoward happening, but make sure your audience could not tell. But the best thing to do is to expect the unexpected so you will not be caught unaware. Be prepared.
(Aside from these public speaking skills, use also some public speaking tools that would better your speech delivery)
You can not just go up the stage, grab the microphone, and deliver a speech, you need to have public speaking skills. Otherwise you will most probably make a huge mess or fail to accomplish your purpose of speaking.
You will have much of an advantage if you first work hard to gain and develop these public speaking skills.
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How to Deliver a Speech Effectively
How to Deliver a Speech Effectively
How to deliver a speech effectively is way too different from merely delivering a speech. You could just read or present your speech but was it effective? Was the message you wanted to impart to your audience sunk deep in their minds and hearts? Did your audience remember anything you said in your speech? Was your speech strong enough that it brought about change and made a difference at least to the lives of the ones who have heard it? Was your speech delivered effectively?
It takes a lot of preparation and work in order to deliver a speech effectively.
One of the challenging things to accomplish in delivering a speech is to be of good influence to other people, to persuade them, educate them, enlighten, and motivate them , urge them to act on or change something. Once you have accomplished these, you have delivered an effective speech.
To deliver a speech effectively is indeed a tough job, but here are some simple tips that will help you.
1. An effective speech delivery first depends on an equally effective and well-written speech. When writing your speech, make sure you take note of the things an effective writer would consider.
2. Before going into your speaking engagement, be sure you “look effective” as a speaker. Dress appropriately, not under-dressed or over-dressed. Radiate the essence of effectiveness initially by your over-all look.
3. Prioritize your audience. Your speech is mainly about them, about educating them, inspiring them, motivating them, satisfying them. Your speech is basically for their welfare.
4. Use public speaking tools appropriately: gestures, body movements, volume of voice, tone of voice, and facial expressions.
5. Speak with conviction. If you want your audience to believe in what you are speaking about, you need to sincerely sound convincing and believable.
Why put much emphasis on effectiveness? It is because the effect or the impact of your speech is critically important. You’d better not deliver a speech if it will not have any good effect to your audience.
That is why it is important that before your public speaking engagement, you study and learn how to deliver a speech effectively.
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Public Speaking Tools
Public Speaking Tools
Public speaking tools are necessary in order to effectively deliver a well-written speech. It is not enough that you have written a perfect speech. It is more like eating just the patty without the buns. No matter how juicy and tender your patty is when you eat it alone, it would not still be pleasing to the taste buds since one important thing is missing, something that balances the taste.
A nicely written speech plus some ideal public speaking tools equals successful presentation.
a. Gestures. Gestures are important but do not overdo these. Otherwise your gestures might turn into annoying and disrupting mannerisms, which are a taboo. These are used to emphasize a thought and should be used always with a purpose and good timing.
b. Body Movements. These are likewise an effective tool to improve your speech delivery if used wisely. These also highlight a point or idea. Just make sure your body movements are not intimidating or lousy. Avoid being too jerky. It is a manifestation of nervousness and timidity.
c. Volume of Voice. You do not need to speak with a loud voice the whole time, or speak in a soft voice. A loud voice emphasizes a strong point, while a soft voice suggests thoughts that depict mellowness, subtlety, peace, quietness, even sadness. Or it is simply used in words that do not need emphasis.
d. Tone of Voice. The tone of your voice should likewise change with a purpose. It should match the emotion your words suggest. If you are uttering a happy line, make your voice sound happy. If it is a sad line, make your voice sound sad. It’s that simple. But do not overdo it, or you will sound like a theater actor.
It should vary or else you will sound monotonous which is an absolute no-no. No matter how well-written and effective your speech is if you are monotonous, you will just bore your audience and your message will not sink in.
e. Facial Expressions: Do not display a blank or a poker face the whole time or majority of the time. A face like such communicates nothing but nonchalance or disinterest. If you bring across such message, do not expect your audience to be interested or excitement about you and about your speech also.
f. Eye-to-eye Contact: Rapport-building is a canon in public speaking. You need to connect with your audience, and the eye-to-eye contact is the most popular way. Do not bow your head majority of the time.It is okay to glance at your paper, but not too often.
Stooping likewise evokes timidity and shyness. Face your audience, look at them in the eye. Have talking eyes. Communicate with them not just with words.
Take into consideration these simple but essential public speaking tools and be successful in delivering an effective speech. Rehearse so you can master them. But do not over practice so it would still come out naturally.
Remember to use these public speaking tools properly so it will serve to your advantage because the absence or improper usage of these public speaking tools will make your speech less than effective, persuasive, or believable.
Do more browsing and find out more public speaking tools in our website!
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How to overcome the fear of Public Speaking
How to overcome the fear of Public Speaking
The fear of public speaking is one of the things many of us have yet to overcome. Since fear is an emotional element, we will try to overcome it emotionally and psychologically. To do so, we may need to change the way we feel and think about public speaking. The following tips will help you overcome your fear of public speaking.
- Know that your “will” is stronger than “fear.”
Remember the movie “Green Lantern” where “fear “represented by a yellow colored monster succumbed to a bright green light which represents “will?” It is your heart and mind’s will or desire that will eventually triumph. What is your will in public speaking anyway? Perhaps to have a successful, effective, and meaningful moment on stage. You will achieve it if your desire is more vibrant and strong than your fear of public speaking. Otherwise your fear will spoil everything.
- Consider public speaking as something opposite of scary.
Come up with other adjectives that would describe public speaking other than frightening, terrifying, and the like. Try exciting, or fulfilling. This may sound like fooling yourself, like telling your self that fire is cold when it’s not. Remember that you control your thoughts, feelings, and emotions more than anyone or any element in existence. It is better to think public speaking as a wonderful thing and enjoy its rewards; rather than think of it as a scary or a frightening obstacle and suffer the consequences. Another way is not considering your self having a “fear of public speaking.” Do not be a self acclaimed fearful public speaker.
- Think of public speaking as an opportunity or a rare privilege.
One thing people are deprived from is their right to be heard. Many are deprived from their freedom of speech where much power could be drawn from. It’s not everyday you get a chance to be heard, not just by one but by a number of people. It’s not everyday you get a chance to educate, enlighten, or inform through public speaking. Once you’ve realized it is an honoring experience rather than a horrifying one, you’ll be itching to grab the microphone and hop on the stage. Once you consider it a rare privilege and an honoring task, your fear of public speaking will one way or another decelerate.
- Know that it is ok to commit mistakes when speaking in public.
One factor that gives a person the fear in public speaking is the unpleasant chance of committing mistakes. Worst case scenario – having hundreds of people laughing on your face. Bear in mind that we all commit mistakes. “No body’s perfect”` is a worn out phrase but indeed true in all angles. Admitting that you could one way or another make an error at some point of your speech would make the damage less painful. But let not this be a reason to be sloppy and to be justified by saying “well, I’m not perfect,” instead let it be a reminder not to make a lot of careless mistakes and to do your best avoiding intolerable mistakes.
- Before your public speaking engagement, seek for help and gather encouragement.
Sometimes overcoming something, just like your fear of public speaking, is easier, faster, and more enjoyable when you have other hands willing to help. This may sound cheesy or irritably traditional but nothing beats a simple “you can do it” from someone who cares and who you care about. If you believe in a Supreme Being that is All-powerful, then pray and ask for help and Divine Guidance.
- To beat the fear of public speaking, you should have courage.
Do not be misled that you should replace your fear in public speaking with courage. Remember the quote from Ambrose Redmoon, “courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” So weigh what’s more important — accommodating and nurturing that fear OR overcoming your fear of public speaking and have the courage to successfully finish that rare opportunity.
5 Don’ts in Public Speaking
Here are some things you need to avoid in public speaking.
1.Don’t be timid.
Wilma Cruz-Tapalla in her book Public Speaking and Personality Development says it perfectly: “The timid individual always suffers from the illusion that everyone is seeking to criticize his faults. Timidity makes him self-conscious and awkward – awkward in carriage, awkward in speech, awkward in expression.” Do not be too conscious that your every action comes crazily calculated. Granted, you are afraid to commit mistakes but the irony is, the more you act too carefully the more you tend to make errors. An antidote to this is the mind set that everyone stumbles in their speeches once in awhile and that it is ok to make tolerable mistakes.
2.Don’t laugh at your mistakes.
In public speaking, giggling at your mistakes is like a self-destructing act. My choir teacher back in college told us that when you laugh at your mistake in the middle of a presentation, it is like announcing to the crowd: “I messed up!” It is like putting your own index finger and thumb resembling the shape of the letter “L” on your forehead. It does nothing but worsen the harm done. One good thing to do is maintain your composure and your confidence and go on with your speech. Apologizing for mistakes that are tiny enough for your audience to understand is unnecessary. Except perhaps for mispronouncing a name of, let’s say, a very important guest.
3. Don’t talk monotonously.
When the tone and volume of your voice barely changes, you are in monotone and are therefore boring. In public speaking, the volume of your voice should be changing; amplified to convey strong points; softened to evoke ideas of calmness, peace, subtleness, gentleness, aloneness or the like. It is unnecessary to talk with a loud voice the whole duration of your public speaking engagement. You will just come out annoying. Your voice should be loud enough for the last person sitting or standing at the last row to hear you properly and clearly. There should also be an attitude in your voice. This is where tone gets in. If a line in your speech suggests emotions like sadness, depression, anger, sympathy, disappointment, joy or any humanly feelings, then your audience should know it basically by the tone of your voice. Your tone should match that what you are actually saying.
4. Don’t over do your gestures.
Gestures are done for emphasis. Do not try to put a designated motion to every idea in your speech. Overdoing is not emphasis at all.
Arsenia B. Tan in his book Public Speaking and Speech Improvement said:
…every gesture should be a part of the whole body reaction to the thought presented: hence, every gesture and thought should be one only…gestures spontaneously created must be an integral part of communication. Otherwise, if the gesture represents one thing and the voice says another, then no meaning is seen by the audience and the purpose is lost.
If gestures are not needed for a certain moment then put your hands in a rest on your side.
5. Don’t be stationary.
You need to move, unless you are speaking in an intensely formal setting and supposed to stand behind a fixed podium. Being still majority of the time, worse, the whole time, could suggests timidity which was earlier expressed as a no-no. Moving around while speaking is a good exercise for your audience’s eyes. One way also to regain their attention – when you move, their eyes follow you. When you notice a certain area in the crowd is becoming inattentive or noisy, slowly move towards that area and be surprised with the result. Make sure your move is not so intimidating. Remember that public speaking is more on pleasing and satisfying your audience, not making them uncomfortable in anyway.
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Tips in overcoming nervousness in Public Speaking
Tips in overcoming nervousness in Public Speaking
Overcoming nervousness in public speaking is not easy but it is a little comforting to know that it is but normal to feel nervous when speaking in front of a crowd or an audience. Even those who’ve mastered the art of public speaking could still, one way or another, feel those romping butterflies in their stomachs. The irony though is not to avoid the nervousness, since it is inevitable, but how to overcome it before it gets the best out of you, swallow you whole, and ruin your speech before you could even begin speaking.
Nervousness in public speaking could be triggered by a huge crowd like this
The following tips will help you overcome nervousness in public speaking.
1. Know and understand that it is normal to feel nervous. It is a natural occurrence in one’s body. It is ok. Everyone gets that nerve-wracking feeling. Though it sounds selfish and a little cruel, it’s a good feeling knowing you’re not the only one feeling terrible. That is one witty and tricky way in overcoming nervousness in public speaking.
2. Calm yourself through some simple relaxation routines or techniques before your speech or public encounter.
The breathe-in-breathe-out exercise is the most popular. It calms down the body and mind, and at some point, the spirit. Stretching those muscles, especially face muscles will help. Since it’s your face your audience see most often in duration of a speech, relax it. Example: exaggerate the sounds of the five vowel sounds – A, E, I, O, U. You could also try placing your palms on your cheeks and moving them in a circular motion. Try squeezing stress balls, or walking back and forth at the backstage, visiting the comfort room (it might help in giving you “comfort”.) But remember, some relaxation routines may not work for everyone. Some may work for you; some may not, so study yourself and know those that will relax you. It may be as cheesy as a smile from your girlfriend or boyfriend, a text message from your mother, or a tap on the shoulder from your bestfriend. Try anything possible; that is if it will bring you to a point of relaxation.
3. Convert the nervousness into a positive energy.
Almost always, nervousness ruins everything, and since it will always linger, why not turn it into something useful. As the saying goes, “If you can’t beat them, join them.” Why not make that nervous feeling into something that would make you feel excited, something that will keep you going, keep your blood and adrenalin rushing. Example: excitement is a good conversion of nervousness. Without excitement, your speech will most probably be a boredom. So instead of bearing with your shaky cold hands, trembling knees and cheeks which will definitely spoil your moment, convert those into jerky gestures that convey excitement.
4. Never tell your audience “I’m feeling nervous right now.”
Though it’s true, admitting and announcing it will not do any help; it will just make matters worse. Your honesty in this part will work against you. There’s no need of such confession. It will also crush down your credibility as a speaker. If you are determined in overcoming nervousness in public speaking,
5. Consider your audience irrelevant.
Though there is a general rule to have a good rapport with your audience, in this case of overcoming nervousness, they should be considered nonexistent. Sometimes people feel calm when alone. Have you ever heard of this mind set: Consider your audience as just a bunch of coconut husks. Sounds silly but it will serve you well if you have a good imagination. You will feel more nervous if you keep on thinking that your audience is a bunch of, say, highly educated, very critical professionals waiting for you to commit mistakes, or who are actually counting your mistakes. The term there that would trigger nervousness is insecurity. So to eradicate this insecurity, consider them not in existence.
6. Don’t look directly into your audience’s eyes.
Again, this may sound ironic since building a connection with your audience is vital, but if you want to beat that ugly feeling that kills you on stage, then don’t. Looking straight into someone else’s eyes creates this uncomfortable feeling which may eventually lead to nervousness. Look at the space in between the eyes instead, it makes the same effect of good audience connection but without the uneasiness. Try this witty trick, your audience will not notice it, nor see the difference.
7. Be confident in yourself and in your speech.
We could consider self confidence as an antidote to nervousness. Another word synonymous to self confidence is courage. It takes enough courage to stand in front of a thousand, hard-to-please people, more so, to deliver a speech to them. So before grabbing the microphone, save as much self confidence and courage as you can. Think uplifting thoughts. Think positive thoughts. Even happy thoughts. That does the trick when Tinker Bell wants a human to fly with her. But thinking alone is not enough, it should be coupled with actions, and the important action you should do to extract such confidence to get you going on that stage or pulpit is tip No.8.
8. Prepare and prepare well.
It has always been said: If ye are prepared ye shall not fear. And take note, fear is the closest cousin of nervousness. They go along pretty well. So prepare weeks or even months before your public speaking engagement. Read your piece out loud in front of a mirror or with someone who could bring out constructive criticisms and encouragement.
If you follow these simple tips, for sure you will be successful in overcoming nervousness in public speaking!
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What is Public Speaking and the Art of Public Speaking
What is Public Speaking?
Public Speaking is a direct oral communication with an audience. It is the creation of an idea in other minds through the stimuli of words, facial expressions, and movements.
Public Speaking is a process of communicating orally to a group of people in a structured, deliberate manner intended to inform, influence, or entertain the listeners.
Public Speaking is the art of conveying ideas, sharing experiences or opinions in front of a group or audience.
What is Art?
Art is a high quality of conception or execution as found in the works of beauty; aesthetic value
Art is a system of principles and methods employed in the performance of a set of activities.
Art is a skill that is attained by study,practice, or observation
The Art of Public Speaking
The Art of Public Speaking involves understanding a set of principles on how to obtain or develop certain skills in speech preparation and speech delivery
It includes how to become an effective speaker or a highly persuasive speaker
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