Public Speaking Workshops

The Art of Public Speaking
Our Public Speaking training workshops are designed for both the inexperienced presenter or as a refresher for more experienced members of your company or organization. Our training workshops are offered in most major cities across the United States and Canada. All public speaking skills training workshops are small which will give you all the face to face time you need with our training team.

Our public speaking training workshops (presentation training) will eliminate your fear or inexperience in public speaking and dramatically improve your speaking skills whether you are persuading, educating, or informing. Our highly interactive workshops focus on professional business communication including preparation, structure, delivery, and strategy, use of visual aids, and handling questions & answers. Contact us today by phone at 713-627-7700 or via email: service@publicspeakingtraining.net

Public Speaking Skills Training: Public Speaking Seminars - One Life-Changing Thing You Need to Know

Public speaking has long been called one of the most powerful forms of communication. Mastering the art of public speaking can help you achieve many professional goals. Whether you work for a company or have your own business, when you learn how to speak properly in front of an audience, you can get ahead and quickly impress a room full of people.

For those who are entrepreneurs, public speaking holds an even greater benefit: allowing you to get new prospects, new clients and customers -- often immediately following a presentation. But what can you do if you feel that fear of public speaking so many people face? What can you do if you'd rather do anything but stand up in front of a room?

If you would rather be in the audience than in front of the audience because you feel nervous in front of a crowd, you're not alone. In fact fear of speaking, known as communication apprehension or public speaking anxiety has long been studied by researchers. As far back as 1971, The Bruskin Report called public speaking the number one fear of most Americans.

How do your feelings of anxiety manifest themselves? Here is a list of the most popular physical manifestations of the anxiety some people feel around getting up in front of an audience:

Dry mouth
Heart racing
Shaking knees, hands, or voice
Breaking out in red patches on your face, neck and chest
Hands sweating
Racing thoughts
Too much movement
Adding filler or useless words and sounds

More?

What it is that is life-changing about this fear? It’s understood that this anxiety is completely normal and natural, at least to a certain extent.

What about knowing the fear of public speaking is normal can be life-changing? It helps to change your perspective.

When you realize something you are feeling is normal and natural you can then learn how to deal with it and get past it. As a professional speaker, I have been getting up in front of audiences since age seven. Even I, with all my 30-plus years' experience, background, and training feel some of those same physical "symptoms" (my mouth gets dry and my hands will shake) whenever I am delivering a new speech for the first time.

Where does it come from? Put simply it's your body's normal fight or flight response kicking in. Your brain knows this is something out of the ordinary and your body reacts.

Realize those symptoms are a form of energy. Take that energy and re-direct it to your audience. Use that energy to create excitement and enthusiasm for your topic and presentation. Be ready for it. I always keep a glass of water with me on stage so if my lips start to stick to my teeth from the dry mouth, I take a sip. And it's fine.

But whatever you do, find a way to get past that fear of public speaking and get out there and do it. The more you have the opportunity to speak to audiences, the more confident you will feel about public speaking.

Source: Felicia J. Slattery link

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