This document provides tips for giving effective presentations and overcoming public speaking fears. It recommends knowing your audience, organizing your speech into an introduction, body and conclusion, and writing and practicing your presentation. Specific tips include using humor, incorporating gestures, handling nervousness through preparation, making a strong first impression, and using prompt cards appropriately. The document emphasizes the importance of thorough preparation to give a polished presentation.
2. A “No Sweat Situation”
The Painless Way to Successful
Speaking
3. Tips On How To Get Over
Glossophobia
Know your audience. Different strokes
for Different folks.
Organize your speech
Write your speech/presentation
Practise correctly
Know how to handle nervousness
4. Organize your speech
The introduction, the body, the closing
The introduction
Be dramatic
Tell a joke
Pose a question
The body
Use a formal outline
Closing
Witty line
5. Writing your Speech/
Presentation
Do it yourself
Keep it simple and to the point
Keep the writing conversational
Use personal examples
Humor almost always helps
REWRITE your speech till you are
satisfied
6. Practise Correctly
Methods of practice
Stand in front of a full-length mirror
Tape record or (even better) videotape
yourself
Gather together some friends, family, sit them
down, and deliver your whole spiel to them
Rehearse small sections of your speech
throughout the day.
See if you can memorize sections without
relying on the notes at all.
7. Incorporate Gestures
Less is more.
Practice your gestures in front of the
mirror
Make your gestures convincing, smooth
and well timed
SMILE - relax
Turn nervousness into positive energy.
8. Adding Humor
to Presentations
It is an extraordinary
learning tool
When people are
enjoying themselves,
you can relax and
enjoy yourself too
9. Explain : Workstation
A police station is where the policemen stop.
A train station is where the train stops.
I have a work station.
10. Techniques to handle
Nervousness
Physical preparation
A clean mouth is a happy mouth.
Look presentable. Nice hair, clothes, nails. Dress to
impress. Go to the bathroom about a half-hour before
the speech.
Do Deep breathing exercises
If hand gestures are a part of your presentation,
shake up your hands
Vocal exercises help. Prepare your mouth
BE CONFIDENT!
(Even if you're not, fake it)
11. First Impressions
The audience's initial impression of you is
made within the first three seconds of your
appearance.
The audience wants you to succeed!"
A mistake will not matter much.
Don't over apologize.
12. Using Notes/Prompt Cards
Key points – not paras of text. (Just enough to jog your memory)
Quotes, statistics, lists.
TYPING EVERYTHING IN UPPER CASE, MAKES
IT MORE DIFFICULT TO READ.
Don’t use unstapled sheets.
Don’t be afraid to leave your prompt cards and move
away.
13. What NOT To Do When
Making a Presentation
Try to fool the audience
Read it from your text
Use inside stories
Make your audience the butt of a
joke.
Go over the time limit
14. Prepare, Prepare & Prepare!
Remember
The only difference between an amateur
and a professional is that:
An Amateur is one who keeps doing it till
he gets it right.
A Professional is one who keeps doing it
so that he doesn’t get it wrong.
Editor's Notes
Glossophobia is fear of public speaking or speech anxiety.