The document provides tips to motivate young people to pursue a career in public speaking. It suggests putting the concept of public speaking into practice early in their lives through pretend play roles. It also recommends giving positive feedback when children practice speaking and recording practice sessions to help identify areas for improvement. Fostering confidence throughout their daily lives by modeling it is also important for nurturing public speaking skills from a young age.

1. How to become a
fearless speaker?
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2. Spontaneous Speaking
Speak from experience
Body language
Confidence
•Confidence attracts the attention
of the audience, if you're shy
people will notice it and start
feeling uncomfortable too.
•Best ways to increase your
confidence are practicing
spontaneous speaking whenever
you can (talking to a friend,
speaking up during a meeting).
•In order to attract the attention of
the audience your body language
should show you're confident and
calm.
•Look into the eyes of the audience
while you talk, make gestures with
your hands and speak loud and clear.
•Roll your shoulders back, stand with
your legs pointing outwards.
•If you're sitting remember to sit
•In order to connect with the
audience you need to show them you
trust them.
•Storytelling is a great way to create a
bond with the audience. Make it
short and match it to the topic of
your speech.
•If you use examples from your life
during your speech it will be more
convincing for the audience.

3. Voice
As a speaker, you have something to say that has
never been said before. You'd be hard pressed to find
words that are original enough for that effect to
occur. Your voice and body language, on the other
hand, can carry it off effortlessly.
Using your voice well, in fact, may be the one habit
that will make you a better speaker. So below we
have sum up some tips and tricks for you to improve
your voice while talking in public:

4. 1. Slow down
When you speak more slowly, your voice has more power and authority. Your listeners have an opportunity to absorb and reflect
on what you’re saying. When you speak too rapidly, your pitch increases, often to something squeaky and child-like. This
decreases the impact of your words and your influence on the audience because listeners downgrade the importance or value of
what you are saying.
2. Use Voice Exercises
The human voice is like a muscle. It can be made stronger with exercise and use. Many people with weak voices have become
powerful, confident speakers by building their voices over time with exercise.
3. Record and Listen to Your Voice
As you develop your ability to speak powerfully, record yourself reading poetry or parts of plays. Replay these recordings over
and over, looking for ways to improve your pronunciation, your delivery, and your pacing.
4. Focus on Pauses
The drama and power of a speech is contained in the silences that you create as you move from point to point. There are four
kinds of pauses you can use to put more power into your presentations. They are, “The Sense Pause”, “The Dramatic Pause”,
“The Emphatic Pause”, and “The Sentence-Completion Pause”.
Usually, when you make a presentation, you prepare your speech and words for the message that you want to transmit to the
public.
But don't forget to also adjust your body language when you speak in front of a public, because it accounts for about 55% of the
communication.
Therefore, you should appear confident in your words through your body language. For example, you should stand up and make
eye contact, not move around too much, not gesticulate too much, but not too little, too.

5. What is stage
fright?
Stage fright, or performance anxiety, is
state of anxiety or fear which occurs when
an individual is faced with the requirement
of performing in front of an audience
(either directly or through a screen, e.g in
front of a camera)

6. What are the symptoms of stage
fright?
Symptoms can occur at different levels:
• Physiological: sweating, altered heart rate,
headache, upset stomach, chills, nausea.
• Cognitive: congestion and mental
confusion, fear of failure and ridicule.
• Behavioural: urge to escape from the
situation, stuttering, frequent or long
silences.
What are the causes of stage fright?
Often, stage fright is associated with social
phobia, which is characterised by the
following cognitive errors:
• Unrealistic assessment of what is expected
of you
• Underestimation of your capabilities
• Overestimation of the opinion of others
• Unrealistic expectations of others'
responses to anxiety
• Overestimation of the idea of ​​rejection

7. There are several tips to follow to avoid stage fright:
• Always keep in mind the present, not the past or the
future
• Try not to obsess about being perfect
• Look at the end of the stage or who is smiling and
forget the criticism of the public
• Try not to dramatise mistakes
• Try imagine what it would be like if nobody was
watching
What is the treatment for stage fright?
Psychotherapy can be useful in overcoming stage fright,
with different techniques applied:
• Techniques at the cognitive level: based on
psychoeducation, aiming to make the patient see
that anxiety is caused by their own negative
thoughts.
• Relaxation techniques: aim to achieve effects similar
to medication taken to reduce anxiety, but
permanently, not for a few hours.
• Behavioral techniques: social skills are practised.
Can stage fright be prevented?

8. Know your audience
Gather all the info that you can about them
Select your target audience
Find the people that is suitable for your topic
Know the occasion
Find the proper moment and location to share your message.
How to plan public
speaking:
Select a topic
Find the best way to share your message trough the topic
Select a purpose
How will you reach the attention of your audience
The key message should be clear
The most important, summarize the main dots and make it clear
Gather potential content
Make a research and find content that could inform and catch the
attention of your audience

9. Prepare for Hecklers
Don’t get angry, they are just stupid
Gather more content than actually used
Get more information, be creative, create or get new ways to improve your work.
Organize content
Make a list, and schedule, don’t make it a mess
How to plan public
speaking:
Phrase the speech
Improvise, remember dots, make it easier for you in the moment of speaking
Prepare visual aids
You are amazing, but is cool to show something. The audience have eyes, and they get
info trough there too.

10. The motivation of youngsters to pursue a career in public speaking

11. While most young children may not want to play
public speaking as an activity, making it a part of
fantasy play can get them used to having
attention on them while they are speaking, and
teach them how to speak more naturally when
addressing others. Create plays where you can
give them roles such as the king delivering a
speech to their citizens or make them president
of the family and have them deliver an
acceptance speech.
Put the Concept to
Practice Early in their
Life

12. It is important to give a lot of positive feedback
when they are practicing for public speaking
but make sure you give them feedback. Simply
saying "it's great," or "I liked it," does not help
them make improvements where they are
needed. Remember to wait until your child is
through the piece before providing feedback
instead of constantly interrupting them to
make corrections. This will be distracting and
most likely add to their nerves.
Give Them Feedback
Record Their Practice
Sessions
It is sometimes easiest to see where you need
to make improvements when you can view the
speech the same way the audience does. If
your child is preparing for a presentation, or
even something as simple as a book report,
record their speech and play it back to them,
providing them on positive feedback about
what the strengths were as well as areas they
can improve on.

13. Confidence is not something that comes
overnight. Confidence needs to be instilled
from a young age and nurtured throughout life.
It is also essential that you model confidence in
front of your children because they learn the
most from watching others. Try to be less timid
or nervous. When you are calm and confident,
your child will see this behavior and mimic it.
Encourage Confidence
Throughout Their Daily
Lives