Tip #2: Don't Write Your Speech Word-for-Word? | 30 Public Speaking Tips

Welcome to 30 Tips in 30 Days! Over the entire month of November, I will be releasing a short, bite sized episode of Fearless Presentations every morning covering things that are absolutely essential to being a better presenter. Whether you've been speaking professionally for years and years or are looking to just start your public speaking journey, applying just these 30 tips I cover here will instantly and easily make you improve as a speaker. Our second tip this month is to never write your speech word-for-word. Speeches are about passion and clear knowledge about a topic. Writing your speech word-for-word allows for little of that passion to come out in the actual presentation of the speech. It also can be quite a waste as writing a speech word for word leads to you remembering it word for word which, as you'll learn tomorrow is also a mistake. Show Notes: 101 Public Speaking Tips For Delivering Your Best Speech(https://www.fearlesspresentations.com/101-public-speaking-tips-for-delivering-your-best-speech/)

Welcome to 30 Tips in 30 Days! Over the entire month of November, I will be releasing a short, bite sized episode of Fearless Presentations every morning covering things that are absolutely essential to being a better presenter. Whether you've been speaking professionally for years and years or are looking to just start your public speaking journey, applying just these 30 tips I cover here will instantly and easily make you improve as a speaker. To kick off this series, our very first tip is to design your presentation first...then design your slideshow. One of the biggest mistakes beginning speakers (and even some advanced ones) make is that they rely on having the structure of their presentation already thought out in their head and jump ahead to making the PowerPoint. Both your presentation and your slideshow will turn out so much better if you draft out what the structure and topics of your speech will be first, then leave making the slideshow for the very end. Show Notes: 101 Public Speaking Tips For Delivering Your Best Speech(https://www.fearlesspresentations.com/101-public-speaking-tips-for-delivering-your-best-speech/)

Last week, I did a quick session on why people feel nervous speaking in front of a group -- even though, they are doing things to reduce that nervousness. This week, I cover what to do if you just absolutely bomb a speech.If you just delivered a terrible presentation and feel like yo fell on your face, take heart. The tips I give at the end of this episode can help.But first, we'll talk about how even the most embarrassing and difficult challenges you face public speaking can be something to learn from.I'm not saying these challenges are necessary. But, if and when they do happen, changing you attitude about the speech and using it as a stepping stone to presentation success can really help.Show Notes: How to Recover from a Terrible Speech (Bombing on Stage)(https://www.fearlesspresentations.com/how-to-recover-from-a-terrible-speech-bombing-on-stage/)

One of the most common things I still hear from people who are talking to me about public speaking is "why do I still get nervous when I'm giving a speech?". Now the preamble to the question is always a little different. The person may have already gone to classes or toasting clubs, maybe the person had already been speaking for years and years and years, but for some reason they still suffer with nervousness every single time when they're trying to deliver a speech.It doesn't matter if they've had the best coaches and the best training, for some reason with all that practice the base level nerves still persist and this can cause them to get frustrated. They might start feeling like nothing they have worked towards has mattered or that they'll just never become a great public speaker cause, to them, great public speakers never get nervous. Well on today's episode I'm gonna dive into the reason that basically everyone still has this question, why you still suffer from it, and how to either fix the problem at it's roots, or find comfort in it.Show Notes: Why Do I Still Get Nervous When I Speak in Public?(https://www.fearlesspresentations.com/why-do-i-still-get-nervous-when-i-speak-in-public/)

I'm gonna do something a little bit different in this weeks episode. This week, we're covering the top 5 biggest public speaking myths, and I'm also debunking each and every single one. Just so you can get an idea of the myths I'll be debunking, this is a look at what they will be. 1. Good speakers are naturally good. 2. You are way more nervous than every other speaker out there. 3. Constructive criticism is the best way to improve at public speaking.4. Video feedback is really valuable for learning. 5. It takes years and years to become a great public speaker. If you have ever been told any of these myths or find yourself believing they make sense, than stick around, and find out just how wrong these seemingly sensible ideas can be.Show Notes: 5 of the Most Common Myths about Public Speaking Debunked(https://www.fearlesspresentations.com/top-5-myths-about-public-speaking-fear/)

Last week, on the first over glossophobia we went over what the fear actually was. We discussed how phobia may not be the best way to describe it and how a terror is probably more accurate. It's intense, it's dramatic, and it's something does effect your everyday life. If you believe after listening to last weeks episode that you are one of the many that may suffer from glossophobia or symptoms that align with glossophobia, this week, we'll work on solving that. This week, we will we be discussing and looking at a few excellent ways to actually tackle that public speaking terror you and many others suffer from. While fully eliminating the fear can be and impossible task, there are certainly a few things that have helped millions control their fear, even to the point of being able to give speeches.So if you're interested in solving that issue and making public speaking a manageable concept, stick around for a few excellent ways to tackle that fear. Show Notes: How to Overcome Glossophobia (The Fear of Public Speaking)(https://www.fearlesspresentations.com/how-to-overcome-glossophobia-an-irrational-fear-of-public-speaking/)

Last week, I discussed the fastest and easiest way to solve public speaking fear (utilizing stories and examples), and I mentioned on that episode that most people have some type of nervousness when they stand up to present in front of others. But what do you do if your fear is more intense than just little jitters. Well, on this episode I'm going to tell you all about glossophobia, the extreme fear of public speaking. I'll tell you a lot of the misconceptions people seem to have with this "phobia", how many people really have it, what the symptoms are, and how you can know if you truly have it or not. Public speaking is a vital part of most working people's day to day life and knowing the difference between typical public speaking nervousness and actual glossophobia can make treating your fear correctly way easier and save you wasted time. So stick around as I go over Glossophobia, the fear of public speaking, and keep an eye out for the next episode later this week where I tell you all about how to treat it.Show Notes: How to Overcome Glossophobia (The Fear of Public Speaking)(https://www.fearlesspresentations.com/how-to-overcome-glossophobia-an-irrational-fear-of-public-speaking/)

One of the absolute fastest and easiest ways to reduce your public speaking fear is to start introducing stories and examples into your formal presentations or PowerPoint deliveries. So when participants first come through our public speaking classes or our training classes, we introduce this technique and, a lot of times, a lot of folks will sort of resist it. They'll say things like "my presentations are a lot more fact focused/data driven/number oriented, I don't think people will really be interested in hearing stories they just want the numbers. What they don't realize is that they are completely missing out on a way better way to solidify the data they are sharing and better convey the statistics they are using. Stories make your presentations easier to follow, easier to understand, easier to deliver, and way more memorable. So stick around for a few reasons you should really start implementing stories, a few tips to start implementing them, and a few ways to come up with the stories in the first place.Show Notes: How Stories and Examples Reduce Public Speaking Fear(https://www.fearlesspresentations.com/stories-and-examples-reduce-public-speaking-fear/)

We often talk on the podcast about how to improve your presentation skills or how to reduce nervousness so that you feel more confident or poised when you stand up to speak. But one of the things that we haven't covered a lot, or at least in a while, is why you should improve your presentation skills.The time and money you spend on improving your presentation skills has the highest return on investment compared to basically anything else you can do. For instance, let's say you go out and buy a new piece of equipment for your company. That equipment will bring your company new profit for a certain amount of time but eventually that equipment will age. The maintenance costs on it will go higher than the amount you're making from it. And it will no longer be worth your investment. Presentation skills are evergreen, growing them once improves your personal growth and profitability to the company for the rest of your life. So find out just a few ways to advance in your job and career by just learning this one set of skills!Show Notes: 7 Ways to Advance Your Career Using Presentation Skills(https://www.fearlesspresentations.com/7-ways-to-advance-your-career-using-presentation-skills/)

There's something really special about group presentations.Group presentations are way, way more different than a normal presentation than most people believe. In fact, I've spent years and years (really the better part of a decade) studying everything that I could about presentation skills and how to deliver powerful speeches and then years later, that study kinda led me to becoming a presentation coach. I felt confident in my ability as a presentation coach and had proven success training hundreds of people, but on one random day I got a very interesting call. It was a prospective client that said "hey, we've got a group of 5 presenters that are competing for a 300 million dollar contract, this contract is vital for the companies success, can you make sure that the team gives the best possible group presentation they can. That one call started me down a multi-year road that's been a fantastic accomplishment for hundreds of groups looking to give presentations together. Let me tell you a little bit about how to run an exceptional group presentation I have learned on that long, long road of experience.Show Notes: Group Presentation Guide: How to Give Presentations As a Team(https://www.fearlesspresentations.com/group-presentation-guide-how-to-get-your-team-on-the-same-page-for-a-group-presentation/)