Giving yourself permission.

2. Close your eyes……
Think of all the qualities of a great speaker you have heard
Picture someone you thought was a terrible speaker

3. People can’t see you are afraid
– so don’t tell them.
They are already nervous for you.
They don’t want you to bomb – it
hurts them.

4. Learning to neutralize your fear.
 The relaxation response. Autogenic training.
 Let me replace it with a positive feeling
 Imagine the audience as a friendly loving group –
try to take the energy from them
 Why a joke or antidote can work for you
 Your anxiety is not obvious to others

5. Autogenic Training Exercise
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yngg8DfmzPE&feature=plcp

6.  Adrenalin is produced and you need it
 Fight or flight response
 Know you subject – preparation is everything
 Change the conversation from internal
conversation to begin talking to the audience –
imagine the adrenalin and embrace the energy

7. Dale Carnegie
“What really matters is that
you're speaking about
something you really believe
and really want to say to this
group, and something that you
REALLY know, either from
experience or intense study.”

8. Visualize success.

9. Prepare well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyWsyDMWTGg

10. Practice

11. Imagine the audience
with no clothes….

13. Speak about something you
are passionate about.

14. Limit the scope of your talk,
know 10X what you put on
slides or charts.

15. Visualize Success

16. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-9LC_s5nvY

17. Speak with animation and
enthusiasm.

18. Be Modest.
Be Self-effacing

19. Converse and connect with
your audience.

20. Make your audience a partner
in the speech.