Tips to Cope with Public Speaking Anxiety
Do you get anxiety when it comes to public speaking?
Here are a few tips that PsychCentral has provided us to help cope with public speaking anxiety
- Creating a script - allows you to plan what you want to say
- Being familiar with your material - this will help avoid any hiccups
- Blocking it out
- Practicing your presentation
- Record yourself - this allows you to see how others are seeing you and helps you see where you may need any adjustments.
- Asking others for help
- Encouraging audience questions - think ahead of time what questions the audience may ask and prepare for how you want to answer them.
Note: the source provided above will go more in-depth.
Remember, not all techniques work for everyone.
Question:
What helps you overcome public speaking anxiety?
I get bad anxiety n in school we have to do speaking presentations sometimes n i think sometimes if there is some1 in the audence or like some1 whos there listning that u know well like a best friend or some1 ur close to i think that helps me a lot
im glad to hear there is something that is helpful for you
For me it helps imagining I wear a mask. When I'm lectoring it's not me, it's this lector that is cool and they while real me.
*they don't see the whole real me.
@heathermarie95 I use the struggle a lot with public speaking. It's not a really big issue now, but I still sometimes get nervous. I tried all of the tips listed here before. None of them worked for me because as soon as it was my turn to present my mind would blank out. But I've gotten way better because I've become more confident in myself and care less about what others might think of me. Practicing public speaking in classes also in general helped me get more use to it.
im glad to hear its gotten better for you. confidence does play a big part in it, too!
I have to give oral presentations for my communication class often. which I wasn’t expecting at first. The first thing i do is to continue to read my speech out loud alone, after I feel comfortable then I look in the mirror and read it out loud so I feel so though I’m practicing others seeing my facial expressions . then once I feel comfortable with that I either present it to my neighbor or husband and ask for construct feedback on my presentation and how I did speaking publicly!
@heathermarie95
Thank you for this post. Public speaking gave me unnerving anxiety. I remember literally shaking and shivering whilst giving a speech in my classroom back in school. Then one day, I randomly decided- I am going to be confident, I am going to give my best shot. I know that can't possibly work for everyone. I was contesting for a post in the school elections. And I did it. I was declared the best orator, I went on to represent my school in various elocution competitions, hosting events.
My tip would be treating the audience as no extraordinary beings, we are all on the same page and equal. Reading aloud and practicing your script, using wit to create dialogues on the spot really helps when you miss remembering.
