For some people, their is publicly to talk about fear so problematic, they consider it their biggest fear in life. I have wrote something to the reasons of the fear of public speaking in previous posts. In this text I would like to give practical tips you can use immediately. Here are five tips and one common sense ' ultimate secret Ninja methods just for you.
First - knowledge of the place.
You have to get used to the situation. Go, you will speak with to the space. Are in the place you are in the conversation. If it is possible to do a dress rehearsal (according to when the conditions permit, but also helps, that in your mind). This, that sample, also walking distance from the seat, which, the click on the stage seating will be. Everything as it was a real event. The point, that is, that body and mind must get used to this situation. We fear what is unknown, so is the objective to introduce this situation.
Secondly - you know the audience.
If you can make only these people, who will be the audience before the speech. Learn as much about them as you can. Ask questions which you customize your presentation, what they need and expect. If you previously cannot meet them, you eliminate early on the day of the presentation. Have a chat with one other early arrivals. During a speech you keep eye contact with them from time to time. If you had a good relationship, this will be very helpful.
Thirdly - you know your material.
Samples it loudly on a mirror. Do it several times. How to visit a real presentation were to samples. Not as an exercise only handle, you act, think of how it was a real event, there are people sitting before. Gestures would be doing here, have this vote as you were talking to a real people. If you have questions, some friends, a role of the target group for you. If you do not agree, you can use your dog for this purpose.
Fourthly - take visual notes.
Make a mental map or concept map of your speech instead of only usual linear notes. This will feel you more unprejudiced with your material, and if from a different angle to understand. People see something, is that not only repeating that you saved, however, that you really your speeches have been integrated with what. Of course if you know your material well being large, what is important to know this out, should be deep and inside and not just stored. Some mental card can help with that.
Fifthly - focus on the audience.
When you start preparing for your speaking event, and if you do a speech, you should focus on one thing. Value people to listen to you. The essential thing is to get somehow enriched you want something good to them that feeling, you should by this session. This idea should guide you through the entire process, from the date of acceptance of the German-speaking invitation to the last minutes of the presentation. This will take you in quite different position, if you your power on ' question simply me, whether they like what I say '. If you like thinking, it is the audience, something to you, and you are on the position of the dependency will be. It is not the right way. Focus on type, disappears on trying to get, and many of your fear to speak publicly. This is to speak of a kind of inner game.
6Th place - imagine a physical movement.
The last tip is less "common sense", the the previous ones. Use it if you are only two seconds before the presentation starts. Do some physical activity. If your audience is not displayed, you can submit quick knee. In other cases, clench your fists and relax them, or anything else to do, the less visible. Combine it with change in your body position make some steps. This is very likely that your change immediately emotional state.