Public Speaking Skills Training

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Our Public Speaking training courses are designed for both the inexperienced presenter or as a refresher for the more experienced members of your company or organization. The Public Speaking Training Company’s public speaking skills training courses and workshops are offered in most major cities across the United States and Canada. All public speaking skills training classes are kept to a maximum of ten participants. This guarantees that all students will have ten digitally recorded in class practice exercises. The public speaking skills training course is conducted by two senior level instructors. This assures all participants that they will personally have the necessary face to face interaction to assure their success.
 

Our public speaking skills training courses 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 public speaking training courses 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: What Is Fear Of Public Speaking?

One of the topics that clients bring to coaching or counseling is the fear of public speaking, the nervousness that sets in when they stand in front of a crowd or when they have to present to a group of board members as part of their job. If any of these applies to you, you might want to read this article.

Definition

The definition that the web gives is: 'Glossophobia or public speaking speech anxiety is the fear of public speaking. The word glossophobia comes from the Greek, meaning tongue, and phobos, fear or dread. Many people only have this fear, while others may also have social phobia or social anxiety disorder.'

Sometimes this fear if also referred to as stage fright. Glossophobia, as the name indicates, appears in the list of phobias, which are irrational fears of simple things or social situations. This is not as bad as it may sound as there are hundreds of different phobias on that list, which you might never even have heard of or considered to be a phobia.

The part that is important here is that it is an irrational fear. When you rationally think about your fear it does not make sense and you realize that you are not going to be in significant danger. This however does not yet change your automatic response.

How is it experienced?

The experience of this fear is partly made up of kinesthetic components - how you feel and what you sense in that moment. People usually describe that they feel sensations in their stomach, nervousness, sweaty palms, racing heartbeat, just to name a few. In addition to that you might experience or imagine energetically that you are not being welcomed or understood.

The other parts are visual components - what you see or visualize in that moment. People usually see their public speaking audience's angry eyes staring at them, imagining them shaking their heads in disagreement or people walking out of the meeting or auditorium.

The last parts are the auditory components - what you hear, either coming from outside or inside your own head and what you imagine you could hear in that moment. People usually have a lot of internal self-talk that is not entirely encouraging. They hear themselves saying things like: 'Oh my god, what am I going to do? I'm so nervous I can't breathe. I'm sure they don't want to listen to me. They are going to walk out on me. I will feel totally embarrassed and ashamed of myself.' Part of the self-talk is a description of what is happening in the body, usually in a melodramatic tone or version and the other part is catastrophizing - making a gloomy picture of an apparently likely outcome.

Additionally they often describe they imagine people openly opposing their public speaking speech and criticizing them or being laughed at and made fun of. Again, these imaginations are a way to catastrophize and paint a dark picture of the future.

Remember: To be able to overcome the fear of public speaking, we first need to understand what it is made up of, what the components of your experience are. From there, change is just a coaching conversation away.

Nathalie Himmelrich: link

Subject: Public Speaking Skills Training