Practice
Visualize yourself giving a good speech
Bring a visual aid
Tell small jokes
Move around, Keep loose
Know your topic
Know your audience
Know your speech
Know yourself
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| How can I Overcome Nervousness? | |||||||||||||
| What makes one nervouse about standing in front of an audience? Afraid of rejection? That the people won't listen? Not sure if you will do alright? | |||||||||||||
| I found a pretty good web site that tells all about how to handle nervousness - www.roch.edu/dept/spchcom/anxiety_handout.htm | |||||||||||||
| These are some of the suggestions: | |||||||||||||
| Prepare Ahead Practice Visualize yourself giving a good speech Bring a visual aid Tell small jokes Move around, Keep loose Know your topic Know your audience Know your speech Know yourself |
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| Notice how most of these suggestionss have to do with having put much preparation into a speech. If you are confident that you are going to do well, you will. As you prepare, practice, study, know what you do well, know how the audience is going to relax, you can rid yourself of much stress. Sound like a lot of work? It is, but I promise that it is worth the work when you can stand up and give a successful speech. | |||||||||||||