You can be extremely nervous and still give a great speech. That one sentence often resonates more with the people I work with than anything else I share. Most arrive thinking they need to get rid of their nerves first and that confidence will follow, but it doesn’t work that way. Waiting for nerves to[…]
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You Can Be Nervous and Still Give a Great Speech
Anxiety, Leadership, Mindfulness, nervous, Presentation Skills, Public Speaking, Storytelling Aug 04, 2014
How to Overcome Public Speaking Anxiety
Anxiety, Leadership, Presentation Skills, Public Speaking, Storytelling Jul 30, 2014
Search for public speaking anxiety, and you will be buried in advice, most of it variations on the same few tricks: imagine them naked, fix your gaze on a spot at the back of the room and talk to that instead, tell yourself that nobody is really looking at you anyway. None of it works[…]
The M Point: Your Moment of Truth Before You Speak
Leadership, Presentation Skills, Public Speaking Jul 24, 2014
It usually arrives as a line in an email, or as someone catching you on the way out of a meeting: can you take ten minutes at the leadership session on the fourteenth and tell everyone where the project has got to? You say yes, the date goes in the diary, and something starts[…]
