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Learn How to Overcome Your Fear of Speaking in Public and Sway an Audience with Passion, Motivation and Inspiration
Practise speaking to a group, then practise some more.
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Prepare
your lecture material
Know
your subject.
Clarify your target group. Who is the audience? What is important to them? What are their values? What is their culture?
What knowledge, information, skill, understanding do you want to communicate?
What is the target group moving away from? What are they moving towards? What are their needs? What are their wants? What do they need to learn to get them from their present state to their desired outcome? What is the solution that you can offer them?
Write
a structured session outline keeping it as simple as possible.
When you begin the presentation tell the participants what they are going to learn and how you are going to conduct the presentation.
Stay
focussed on the topic.
Time
your presentation leaving adequate time for answering questions.
Prepare
audio visual aids: posters, PowerPoint slides, whiteboard, etc.
Prepare
hand outs, notes, references, resources, etc.
Understand that 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
the presentation out loud in a theatrical manner with big gestures. Make it fun and
playful. When you give the presentation it will naturally 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 comparison with 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 one. That is, looking out of your eyes, not thinking of the audience looking at you. You need a meta program of 'other', not 'self'.
Remember the audience is only too ready to esteem you. Inherent in the position
of being a presenter is the adoration of the audience, that is as long as you are respectful
and loving towards the participants.
Learn
how to meditate
Learning
how to enter deep meditation cannot be understated. What sports people refer to as 'the zone' is in fact a meditative state of mind, a flow state. Meditation skills that could ordinarily
take years of trial and error with traditional methods, you can learn with Abby Eagle in a matter of hours.
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 and a new found sense of self emerges.
Learn
how to model patterns of 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 think of it as a practise session but give it 100%.
Be
curious about other presenters. At every opportunity look, listen and feel.
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. See yourself standing in the shoes of your role model. Let their speech patterns become your internal dialogue.
Learn
how to build rapport
Learn NLP rapport skills. Pace where the audience is at then lead them towards your desired outcome.
Match and mirror physiology, voice tonality and tempo, and words. Calibrate
and read body language.
Start
out slow to get rapport with the kinaesthetic people, pronounce your words carefully
for the auditory people and then build up speed to entrain the visual people.
Use
your voice tone, tempo, volume, inflections, accents and pauses to seduce the 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.
Dont
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.
Pace
the participants values, meta programs, culture and the way they think about time.
Lead
the participants towards your desired outcome with your language but give the illusion of free choice.
Dont
talk down to the participants. Meet them on an even level. Treat the presentation, communication as if it
is a review of what the participants already know, even though it may not be.
Don't be known for just 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
NLP and Ericksonian Hypnosis language patterns so as to influence your audience with integrity
Treat every communication as a structured sales process.
Get the attention of your audience. Build rapport. Ask questions. Identify needs and wants.
List
the most common questions that you are likely to get from your audience and then generate a number of answers for each question.
Inoculate
against the most common objections before they arise.
Practise
responding to questions and objections.
Don't
try and be a 'know it all' - a teaching teacher - rather just be a learning leader who is able to point to a
source of information. Rather than tell the audience what to think pose questions for consideration. Throw
challenging questions back onto the group.
Learn Ericksonian hypnosis language patterns. Practise conversational hypnosis. Learn
to recognise trance states. Use
hypnosis at every opportunity.
Each
and every one of us is a hypnotist. Those who would deny hypnosis are sometimes
the greatest hypnotists.
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 a starting point:
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.
But don't stop there. Take it one step further and learn how personality types are created through a synthesis of meta programs.
Deliver
your presentation with confidence
Get into state. Use peripheral sensing to relax and take in the entire audience.
Tell
the audience what you intend to talk about, 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. Use gestures with purpose.
Make
eye contact. If possible get on a first name basis with some of the participants.
Involve them. If you build rapport with the people at the back of the audience then you will have rapport with the entire audience.
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 on your performance
Benchmark your performance. 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 but don't let the positive
feedback pump you up or the negative feedback drop you down.
Get NLP Coached on the Gold Coast to overcome your fear of speaking in public and learn how to sway an audience with passion, or at least just enjoy yourself...
Overcome
panic attacks and anxiety with NLP and hypnotherapy - learn techniques to improve your confidence and skill in public
speaking - learn how to model the attributes
of your role models - learn how to speak with confidence,
charisma and professionalism - learn how
to replace negative self talk with true positive thinking - learn how
to virtually eliminate anxiety - learn how to tap into resource states - gain the confidence to go for what you really
want - learn how to quieten the mind and find a sense of inner peace.