Public Speaking Classes

The Art of Public Speaking
Our Public Speaking training classes are designed for both the inexperienced presenter or as a refresher for more experienced members of your company or organization. Our public speaking classes are offered in most major US cities and across Canada. Our public speaking skills training classes are small which will give the Public Speaking Class Participants up to 10 Video Taped practice exercises as well as hours of instructor face to face interaction.

Our public speaking training classes (and our one day public speaking class) will eliminate any fear which is caused by lack of experience or nervousness due to inexperience in public speaking and will dramatically improve each participants speaking skills whether they are persuading, educating, or informing their audience. Our highly interactive classes focus on professional business communication including proper preparation, structure, delivery, and strategy, the correct 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 Training Class: When Your Fear Becomes a Deterrent in Public Speaking

For some people, just the thought of public speaking is enough to make them nauseous. If your public speaking fear is keeping you from getting a raise or a promotion because of your refusal to stand at the lectern, then congratulations, your fear is winning the war! If it is preventing you from advancing your own business by speaking at various business organizations, then a fantastic networking opportunity is passing you by.

In today's business world, the avenues for public speaking are many and varied. Being unable to face a public speaking audience and deliver a public speaking message means that someone else will. And, when that happens you can watch your own career stagnate or fail.

Look at the list below and start imagining. Read through the list and then close your eyes and envision what I am asking you to do. Force yourself to smile as you think of the suggestions. No frowning nor shaking of your head allowed.

Imagine approaching the lectern or the head of the boardroom table with enthusiasm.

Imagine acknowledging those in your public speaking audience with a smile.

Imagine opening your mouth to speak and the words come out as planned.

Imagine making eye contact with your listeners.

Imagine having enough control to be able to respond to their reaction to you.

Imagine being a success, not only in your delivery, but with your message as well.

If fear is holding you back, then it is difficult to imagine any of the above conditions because your fear has the upper hand. It is in control. And it is a deterrent.

Instead of imagining what could go wrong, why not change your perspective and imagine what could go right. There are only 2 things you need to do to able to satisfy those 6 conditions:

1. Know your material inside and out, backwards and forwards, which is only possible if you practice it out loud. Reading it over in your mind is not practice. Basketball players and performers alike do not read to practice. They practice physically be it sports, acting, singing, playing an instrument or public speaking.
2. Treat your public speaking audience just as if you were sitting in your living room in conversation. When you can accomplish that, you will make eye contact with your public speaking audience. It is in that eye contact that you can then relax and actually enjoy talking to those who have come to hear you speak.

Stop wasting your time imagining what could go wrong. Know your material and talk as if in conversation; and, you will survive it and thrive in it as well. Don't let your fear keep you from the success you are seeking.

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