Public Speaking Seminars

The Art of Public Speaking Seminars
Our Public Speaking training seminars are designed for both the inexperienced presenter or as a refresher for more experienced members of your company or organization. Our public speaking training seminars (seminar) are offered in most major cities across the United States and Canada. All public speaking skills training classes are small which assures each training seminar participant that they will be allotted an extensive amount of time with each of the two senior level public speaking seminar administrators.

Our public speaking training seminars (presentation training) will eliminate all participants fears or inexperience in public speaking and dramatically improve public speaking skills whether you are persuading, educating, or informing. Our highly interactive public speaking seminars (seminar) focus on professional business communication including preparation, structure, delivery, and strategy, use of visual aids, and handling tough questions & answers. Contact us today by phone at 713-627-7700 or via email: service@publicspeakingtraining.net, Ask for our Public Speaking Seminar Customer Service Specialist.

Public Speaking Seminars: Death and Public Speaking

Got to make a public speaking speech soon? How do you feel? Would you rather die? If so, you are not alone. Most women grow up with two main fears: one is death and the other, rather more severe, is of public speaking. I have lost count of times I have watched eminent, confident, amusing, happy, well-adjusted people - - at clubs, professional associations, wherever - - suffer dreadful misery. They pick at their dinner, shift in their seats and let out long, shuddering breaths of fear - - not because they have to make a proper search, but because it is their turn to introduce the speaker and propose the word of thanks to the secretaries and other figures. It does not take a rowdy or hostile audience to bring on this terror. Even a roomful of friends and supportive colleagues can do the trick. Yet when they have recovered and are talking to you on to one, these people return to be articulate, amusing, voluble and confident.

It is a crippling thing, this public speaking fear. Yet there are only four public speaking rules.

Prepare everything so carefully that you can then ignore your notes. But keep them in front of you all the same.

Give them something to smile at the first thirty seconds of your public speaking speech.

Force yourself to believe they like you. Lots of people like you, don't they? Well, pretend they are here.

Remember, you are not performing a brain surgery or flying a helicopter in a hurricane. You are safe. The public speaking audience is safe. The worst thing that can possible happen is that you make a twit of yourself. I never stand up to speak without thinking - - quite peacefully - - that this could be the day I am booed off the podium. I cheer myself up with the reflection that if so, it will atone for all the sins of vanity I have ever succumbed to and make me humble enough to go to heaven.

But oddly, one of the greatest causes of THE TERROR is being afraid that your fear is fully justified: that it is Nature's way of telling you that you have nothing to say worth hearing. When that feeling strikes, remember the late Sir Isaiah Berlin, one of the most respected thinkers of the century. He admitted a few years ago on Desert Island Discs that he was so scared every time he lectured that he could not bar to see a human face in case it looked bored, or amused, or quizzical, or in any way judgmental. So he fixed his gaze on the 'top right hand corner of the room...which does not assist a lively delivery'.

If a genius can be that shy, then shyness is obviously nonsense. Banish it!

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