Fear Tips - And How to Avoid Them

It can be intimidating to do public speaking with a large room full of people. Not knowing what might happen once your on stage can cause even some season professionals stress with giving speeches.

Therefore in order to give a good professional speech you need some tips to help you over the rough spots. First of course is to know your topic well. A structured speech is one that is focused on the topic and gives the audience some good content. Knowing that you are well adverse in the topic will help settle some of your fears.

Another tip some speakers use is to give an opening comment that includes to topic a brief outline of the speech and then a small joke to introduce some humor to the audience. This help the speaker break the ice with the audience and at the same time reduce some stress for the speaker.

Probably the best tip is just gaining more confidence in your speaking ability. The more times you speak the more your confidence will increase. This also will show with the audience. When you get up in front of a crowd and you show enthusiasm, not only does it take away the fear of specking in front of a large crowd, but it also makes the audience eager to listen to your speech.

A tip that a friend of mine uses to clam his fears is to have a mental outline of his speech in his head. That way he is always thinking back to his outline while giving the speech which lends his interaction with the audience come naturally. With this outline in his head, he is also able to transition from point to point within his speech. This keeps his mind busy and reduces the fear factor for him.

One last tip that many speakers use is when addressing the audience, is not to stare at them or any one person. By this I mean you basically have a glaze look at the audience as if they were just one large sea of faces. This way the audience seems less threatening to you, which in turns reduces your fear.