Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Worse fear number one: Public speaking

It still is the greatest fear of all times: Public speaking. Be it speaking for a smaller or larger audience.
The moment your name is called, the heart starts pumping. Usually strong voices fade away, or sound restricted.

What was clear a moment ago seems gone. Time slows to an apparent crawl. And the one person who was so friendly just a minute ago changes into a grimacing monster.
Problem is that the ability to speak publicly is increasingly important in the 21st century (as if it wasn't earlier), if you want to grow in your company. How to do?

Courses in public speaking or to enhance presentation skills don't always help (do they at all?), since every situation is different, looks different, sounds different, feels different.

Sounds familiar?

BusinessWeek Online has a couple articles that can provide help to those with fear, summarised in Room 116.

If this doesn't help (and did an article ever?), feel free to send me an e-mail for a free tip or two. Or, if you want, I can work with you to increase your confidence in a few NLP sessions. Because in the end, we are all confident. How else did we learn to walk, to read, to get a job and through the interview, marry ( :) ) or simply survive? It is all in us, insn't it?

(NLP in Asia)








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