Advice for public-speaking anxiety

simba
Sun, 20 Feb 2011 11:33:02 +0000

Toastmaster is wonderful. Also, public speaking is practice, practice and practice in front of mirror. 30 years ago my company required all new employees to take speaking class. Some of the things they talked about was that think of yourself having the power of knowledge. Most of the time you are talking about the subject you know the most. Always have a smiley face, make eye contact with people - in the audience there always will be few sympathetic faces relate to them. Don’t move around and keep your hands to yourself.

If you have trouble having smiley face think of your audience as being naked.