PUBLIC SPEAKING COACHING AND TUITION

Overcome your fear of public speaking and become a great orator.

There are two steps to the Public Speaking Program:

1. Overcome panic attacks and anxiety. Learn how to deal with the fear of public speaking in the comfort and security of a personal NLP consultation.
2. Learn exercises and techniques to improve you confidence and skill in public speaking at our 'Zen and the Art of Living' course.

In Zen and the Art of Living you will learn how to model the attributes of your role models - that is how to speak and act with confidence, charisma, charm and professionalism. You will learn how to replace negative self talk with true positive thinking. How to virtually eliminate anxiety. How to tap into the source of your creativity. How to attract into your life what you really want. And how to quieten the mind and find a sense of inner peace.

Please note: Zen and the Art of Living is a generic workshop in which you will learn a set of tools and techniques that you can apply to any area of your life. It is not targeted specifically to those interested in public speaking, nor will you learn scripts or get practise in making a presentation to an audience. Zen and the Art of Living is about transforming you in such a way that you can achieve whatever you put your mind to.

THE KEY POINTS TO BECOMING AN EFFECTIVE SPEAKER ARE TO:

1. Clear fear, shyness and anxiety using NLP. This is the first step.
2. Then learn how to maintain a relaxed peaceful state through daily meditation practise.
3. Next you need to learn how to establish rapport with an individual and a group.
4. Learn how to read the body language of an individual and a group, and then use this feedback to influence them to your outcome.
5. Learn how to elicit values then pitch your presentation to the values of the audience.
6. The last step is to know the content of your presentation and to work from a detailed session plan.
7. Finally you should learn how to use hypnosis with an audience, how to model the language patterns of great presenters and also to make it your life's mission to become a great orator.

 

PUBLIC SPEAKING GUIDELINES

Prepare Your Lecture Material.

• Know your subject material.
• Study for a certificate IV in assessment and workplace training.
• Write a session outline keeping it as simple as possible. You learn that in detail in the aforementioned certificate.
• Time your presentation leaving plenty of time for answering questions.
• Stay focussed on your topic and make it clear what the participants are going to learn.
• Choose an inductive or deductive presentation style.
• Prepare audio visual aids: posters, powerpoint slides, whiteboard, etc.
• Organise other props.
• Prepare hand outs. Detailed notes, references, resources, etc.
• You are in control: The audience has no idea of what you planned to say so they have no idea of whether you did it right or not, so relax.
• Rehearse your lecture out loud in a theatrical manner with big gestures. Make it fun and playful. When you give the presentation it will get toned down.
• Practise at every opportunity then practise some more.

 

Prepare Yourself.

• Develop a passionate attitude towards the lecture content. You must love your work.
• Develop a positive attitude towards the participants. What is your purpose for talking to the group? You must want to help them in some way or another.
• If you must compare yourself with other presenters then use the other presenter to reinforce your own good points.
• To overcome self consciousness you need to stay in your body. Don't imagine that others are looking at you. You need to stay in NLP perceptual position number 1.
• Anchor in resource states using NLP.
• If you are shy then reframe it as a positive attribute. Some of the greatest film and stage actors are introverts.
• Accept yourself for who you are right now. If you are terrified then enjoy it but don't judge yourself and think that you should be like someone else.
• If you don't set yourself up on a pedestal then no one can knock you down. Just be an ordinary human being.
• Don't try and be perfect, just improve upon yourself 1% each time you make a presentation.
• Clear negative emotions and limiting beliefs with NLP.
• Learn how to meditate. Learn a scientific approach to meditation at Abby Eagle's School of Meditation.
• And remember the audience is only too ready to esteem you. Inherent in the position of being a presenter is the adoration of the audience, as long as you are respectful and loving towards the participants.

 

Learn How to Meditate at Abby Eagle's School of Meditation

• Learning how to enter deep meditation cannot be understated. The skills that could ordinarily take years of trial and error you can learn at Abby's course entitled Zen and the Art of Meditation.
• So do the 'hard yards', practise your meditation every day and create a sense of peace in your mind before you go in front of an audience. Once you have experienced the benefits of meditation you will find it to be self motivating.
• Learn how to develop feelings of kindness and compassion towards yourself and others. When you can do this then the fear of public speaking naturally disappears.
  

 

Learn How to Model Excellence.

• Use NLP and meditation tools and techniques to model the excellence of others and transfer it to yourself.
• Think of yourself as an actor going on stage. Each time you have to speak in front of an audience it is just a practise session but you must give it 100%.
• Be curious about other presenters. At every opportunity look, listen, feel the emotional state and learn.
• Become fascinated with those presenters who have the skill to sway an audience, whether you agree with them or not.
• Treat television and films as the most cost effective training tool you can find. Learn how to model the attributes of those people who inspire you.

 

Learn How to Build Rapport

• Learn NLP rapport skills. (Available as an in-house workshop.)
• Pace and lead to get the audience on side
• Calibrate and read body language.
• Start out slow to get rapport with the kinaesthetics, pronounce your words carefully for the auditories and then build up speed to entrain the visuals.
• Use your voice tone, tempo, volume, inflections, accents and pauses to titillate and seduce your audience.
• Vary the pace of your presentation. Some sentences should be spoken very quickly, slowing down to emphasis specific phrases, while marking out individual words for impact.
• Esteem the participants at every opportunity. Make them feel good about themselves.
• Don’t suppress a reaction or contribution by a participant but make an acknowledgment and give him/her an opportunity to express him/herself in some small but meaningful way.
• Sell to the participants values. Hook them into their emotions and then lead them to your outcome.
• Control the participants but give them the illusion of free choice.
• Don’t talk down to the participants. Be on an even level. Treat the lecture as if it is a review of what the participants already know, even though it may not be.
• Don't be known for giving a good talk but develop a reputation for motivating people to action.
• Be passionate, if you can't be passionate then find something else to talk about.

 

Learn Language Patterns to Influence Communication

• Treat every communication as a structured sales process.
• Inoculate against the most common objections before they arise.
• Rehearse the most common questions and answers.
• Learn to handle objections and questions.
• Throw challenging questions back onto the group.
• Don't try and be a 'know it all', rather just be a leader who is able to point to a source of information.

 

Study Personality Types

• Learn how to profile people and recognise different personality types. The Myers Briggs personality typing is one of the best known. The following two books are recommended:
• Please Understand Me 11: Temperament character and intelligence by David Keirsey. 340 pages.
• The Sixteen Types: Edited from Please Understand Me 11 by David Keirsey. 40 pages.

 

Learn Hypnosis.

• Each and every one of us is a hypnotist. Those who would deny hypnosis are sometimes the greatest hypnotists.
• Learn to recognise and use hypnotic language patterns.
• Learn to recognise trance states.
• Use hypnosis at every opportunity.

 

Make Your Presentation

• Tell the audience what you intend to talk about, why, for what purpose, and then explain how you intend to do that.
• Play with the audience. Have fun, be a little theatrical and demonstrative.
• Express emotions. Help the audience to both 'laugh and cry'.
• Communicate with your body as well as your voice. Just look at how music video clips have evolved over the last 30 years.
• Stand tall like an Emperor and move with purpose. Don't pace aimlessly.
• Make eye contact. If possible get on a first name basis with some of the participants. Involve them.
• Gather information from some of the participants and use it to customise your presentation.
• Use analogies and metaphors to develop a deeper understanding of the material being presented.

 

Get Feedback.

• Write a feedback form for yourself on a number of salient points and evaluate your performance in an objective manner after each session.
• Solicit feedback from others after the presentation.
• Ask for written feedback and testimonials from the participants. Don't let the positive feedback pump you up or the negative feedback drop you down.