How to Practise to Remove Fear of Public Speaking
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The document addresses glossophobia, the fear of public speaking, and offers practical advice to overcome this fear through preparation and practice. It emphasizes that public speaking is a skill that can be developed by gaining experience, utilizing various practice techniques, and learning from resources like books and workshops. The author, Alan Richardson, provides strategies to build confidence and effectiveness in public speaking, ultimately enhancing job prospects and personal recognition.
How to Practise to Remove Fear of Public Speaking
- 1. No Fear Public Speaking by Practicing How to Practice Public Speaking Alan Richardson www.eviltester.com www.compendiumdev.co.uk @eviltester 1
- 2. Synopsis Glossophobia, the fear of public speaking, usually ranks pretty high on surveys of 'what people fear'. And for good reason. We've all attended conferences where the keynote speakers were seriously injured after being hit by a torrent of rolled up feedback forms, or speakers were left bleeding from a rain of plastic name badges thrown Shuriken‐like by the Ninja trained attendees. 2
- 3. Synopsis You can learn to avoid these outcomes, and when you do, you gain a skill that will win you recognition, improve your job prospects and allow you to travel the world talking to fellow testers. 3
- 4. We Learn Public Speaking by Speaking in Public We do it better when we gain experience. We have to gain experience by doing. Which means... At some point we are speaking in public without experience. Learn from others: books, workshops ﴾like this﴿, your experience ﴾of others﴿. 4
- 5. On Fear Fear is Natural? Fight or Flight Explanations Is it fear? Adrenalin != Fear Physiology Excitement 5
- 7. Prep ‐ Practice and Contingency Planning Practice reduces uncertainty and develops confidence Contingency Planning mitigates risk 7
- 8. Prep ‐ Practice out loud in your head 8
- 9. Prep ‐ Practice Different Styles Adopt different presentation styles as funny as possible as outlandish as possible no jokes as many jokes and quips as you can Super excited slow and steady present from deck, without the deck with different timings 9
- 10. Prep ‐ Practice Record your practice sessions Video/Audio Listen back for 'nuggets' add to speaker notes or on slides Later practices ‐ transcribe ﴾rev.com, trint.com﴿ can amend to create a paper for timing do you need prompts on the slides? 10
- 11. Prep ‐ Practice to convince yourself that: you can do this; you know the material; you can work without slides; you know the experiences you are building on; you can do this. Practice so that you Know what you are talking about and that you can talk about it. 11
- 12. Speaking in Public Speaking in public is a skill, that you can develop if you care enough about the message that you want to deliver. It is simply practice, and you can do that. END 12
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- 14. Learn About Alan Richardson www.compendiumdev.co.uk uk.linkedin.com/in/eviltester 14
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- 16. BIO Alan is a test consultant who enjoys testing at a technical level using techniques from psychotherapy and computer science. In his spare time Alan is currently programming a multi‐user text adventure game and some buggy JavaScript games in the style of the Cascade Cassette 50. Alan is the author of the books "Dear Evil Tester", "Java For Testers" and "Automating and Testing a REST API". Alan's main website is compendiumdev.co.uk and he blogs at blog.eviltester.com 16