Public Speaking Resources
Public Speaking Secret number one! You need to love blank faces in the audience!
Why are audiences tricky to work with? We misunderstand what is happening when we are in the audience. Audiences have blank faces when they listen. They listen passively
Public Speaking – the more we focus on it, the harder it becomes…
I work a lot with people who are anxious around public speaking. One thing is very clear that we think far too much about it. Especially if we are scared and anxious when we are the centre of attention. And guess what? The overthinking about public speaking does not help
The Public Speaking Confidence checklist
What exactly does it take for people to get confidence? Do we understand confidence in a useful way? What actions, beliefs and understandings do we need around confidence for public speaking?
Rethinking confidence and public speaking...
Confidence is a tricky word. It has a number of meanings for people and they may not all be that useful for people who are scared of public speaking. People often write to me and say that they want to “appear” confident. They mean they don’t want to show any weakness or fear. They think that going red will make them seem vulnerable. They also think “confidence” means not feeling any fear when they “perform”. We need to have a better more helpful definition of confidence