Confident Presenting and Communicating Skills
Findings in surveys suggest that, for many people, our number one fear is of public speaking. In those same surveys fear of death comes third on our list!
How is it that so many people worry about being the centre of attention?
For one reason, we live in a society where people are all too willing to criticise. It creates a fear of making mistakes – especially in public.
The Trouble Is, You Don’t Get a Second Chance to Make a First Impression
Research shows that people make 11 judgements about us within the first 30 seconds of meeting us. And, once a negative impression is formed about you, it takes a massive amount of action on your part to change that impression.
It’s frustrating when, out of lack of confidence, you may stutter over you lines, become tongue tied, present yourself in a wooden way or fail to speak up.
In many situations that negative impression can lose you the sale, a job opportunity, a chance to make a positive difference or cause you to be overlooked in favour of more confident, but less talented people.
Even when you do manage to present yourself well, if you feel nervous inside it takes away much of the enjoyment of your success. You may have the courage to ‘feel the fear and do it anyway’ but the journey to that success can be so stressful that the successful feeling at the end is too short lived to make all the effort worth while. It doesn’t have to be like this though!
Being Confident when attention is on you - continue hereBeing Confident when attention is on you
thank you so much for your wonderful help and advice
Pat Spillane, Director of Flying Pixel
Hi Madeleine,
I just wanted to say thank you so much for your wonderful help and advice I'm normally a confident person but have found presentations challenging I'm really excited and actually looking forward to giving my presentation tomorrow I've finished the presentation - it looks fantastic!
I'm going to knock 'em dead tomorrow
...and after the presentation:
It was fantastic !!! I was brilliant (even if I do say so myself) I really enjoyed it even when my remote control managed to skip from the middle of the presentation to the final slide, I kept my cool, managed to get it back to the right spot and carry on with the show without anyone noticing. Thank you so much
Pat Spillane, Director of Flying Pixel
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