Josh Peace Offers Advice On How To Cure You Fear Of Public Speaking
I bet you didn’t know that public speaking makes three out of four people feel nervous and anxious? This fear makes your speech less effective than it would if you projected with with confidence. However, don’t worry! Because public speaking pro and entrepreneur, Josh Peace offers his advice on how to combat that fear of public speaking and truly shine when you’re at the podium.
“My first piece of advice is to not procrastinate. If you allow the anxiety to keep you from thinking and preparing your speech, you’re creating a self-fulfilling prophesy of failure being unprepared. So, the moment you know that you’ll be presenting/speaking for an audience, immediately begin outlining and preparing your speech/presentation. I like to think of a popular quote: failing to plan is planning to fail” commented Josh Peace.
Entrepreneur and CEO of a London based Marketing and Sales firm, Josh Peace, is a public speaking mastermind who delivers speeches to audiences across the world to driven and enthusiastic entrepreneurs in countries such as USA, UK, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Poland, so if there’s anyone’s public speaking advice you should listen to, it’s Josh Peace’s.
Josh Peace continues, “My second piece of advice is that you need to consider your opening. The root of the fear of public speaking is the worry that your audience is judging you. I’m sorry to say, bu you’re right, they are judging you. However, in most cases, your audience will decide in the first 15 seconds whether or not you’re worth listening to. Because of that, you need to make the first 15 seconds of your speech appealing, so that it captures attention and proves that your topic is important, beneficial and interesting to the audience. A fact or statistic usually works a treat! Like the beginning of this article (you see what we did there?).”
Josh Peace concludes his tips by saying, “my key piece of advice is that it comes to delivering your speech or presentation, never (ever) speak to the entire audience. Instead, pick out an individual in the audience and speak to him or her directly and pretend everyone else is simply overhearing a conversation. Every time you move to another point or slide, pick out a different person in the room and speak directly to that person. It’s harder to fear “public speaking” when you’re speaking to an individual, rather than to an audience!”
