Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Conquer public speaking

One way to overcome fear of public speaking and still afraid to speak. Stupid as it sounds, is perhaps the most reliable way to gain confidence in speaking. Bang, nervous, uncertain, but they do anyway.

It will not be very good the first few times, but do not expect to be. Just make a goal to do it and finish. Once you've made a couple of times, and you realize that you can be killed is not afraid to do it next time. EIf you continue to do, eventually you start to get good at it and may even learn to enjoy.

I think one of the reasons people fear public speaking is that they expect too much. It 's like you're afraid of flying on a plane if you had no education. Of course you're going to fail. If you call the pilot to the cockpit and says, "This ground floor, is a safe bet you crash if you try.

But in any case if you do not speak in public,is not usually fatal. The failure is actually one of the best ways to learn. E 'in the same way we learn to walk and talk, when we were kids. We stumble and stammer until we get it. Just like you would not expect a white belt in karate to be able to break a brick, is not expected to be a speaker for the first time the public to be as polished as a pro. But, unfortunately, people demand this level of performance of the cars waiting if they are going to speak in public, that it was better to stay.And since this will not happen, it creates fear. But fear is mostly gone when the expectations are realistic and head up to the lectern waiting to smell the first few times.

Remember the scene in the movie The Matrix where Neo is trying to do a super jump between two high rises and falls to the ground? "Everybody falls the first time." The same applies to public speaking. You can smell the first time. Get Over It.

Unfortunately, thereal world can be hard to find opportunities to speak than you planned. People assume that if you volunteer to speak, you should be good. But it is reasonable for people to ask the speakers to be good, as most people do not hear a bad speaker. And 'boring.

I think the best solution to this conundrum is to join Toastmasters International. The nice thing about Toastmasters is that the organization is designed to make it as easy as possible to learnpublic speaking. You can participate in some meetings as a guest for free to see what it's like without pressure. Just show and watch. Everyone knows what's going to speak, and do not expect to be good. It is a low pressure with a lot of encouragement. Prior to joining Toastmasters last year I thought the organization was for people who were really good at talking. The brochures make it look like a bunch of people doing business formalpresentations. But is not the reality I discovered. Some clubs are mostly people between 40 and 50 years and treat them fairly formal meetings, but other clubs are people between 20 and 30 years have very informal meetings, each club is unique. Most of the speeches I've seen are personal and not commercial - people often make speeches recalling stories from childhood holidays or events.

All have flaws. Some people in Toastmasters for over a decade are still strugglingwith "UMS" and "ah" during their speeches. Each is a different skill level, but no one is perfect. And most everyone seems to have a healthy reminder of how it was their first time too.

The best way to a sense of what Toastmasters is really nice to have, is to participate as a guest. You can also try more than one club - I've been to five different clubs so far. And if you decide to join, membership is cheap. The rights will soon be (not much), butI currently only pay $ 5 per month. Also produces a monthly magazine. There are over 10,000 individual clubs in 80 countries with an average of 20 members each, so chances are you're a local club near you. There are only 10 clubs within a radius of 7 miles of my house. Check out the section to find a club to see what's in your neighborhood.

Some of the casinos here in Las Vegas also have their own Toastmasters clubs. The MGM Grand, the roar of the lions club. The Luxor, the Pyramid PowerTalkers club. And New York, New York is the Manhattan Express club.

Toastmasters actually has two tracks for the ability to create. One is the trace of the communication, which means that improving your vocabulary. But less well known outside the organization is the guide track, which helps your leadership skills. Members are free to focus on one track or the other or both. I recently earned my CTM (Competent Toastmaster), which is the first prize of educationground communications, and I am doing my CL (Competent Leader), the first prize in track leadership. There is a lot of flexibility in how you go about fulfilling the requirements for this.

Toastmasters is also very funny, and I look forward to the meetings, partly for their entertainment value. There is usually a lot of humor in every match, especially in the club I belong to, which contains a number of comedians. In some club members will then have dinner. AHot Club in my area is only for bachelors & singles singles, meet in the back room of a bar and grill and sipping a drink and eat during their meetings, which tends to be quite lively. So do not be intimidated by the apparent formality of Toastmasters - is very friendly to newcomers.

At least, Toastmasters is a great way to get out and do something social, make new friends in the area (which is fun to counterbalance the abundance offriends online), laughter, and get the heck away from the computer for a while '. In fact, I have a meeting to go now ...

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