Incorporate storytelling into public speaking
Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2025 6:23 am
There are also many board games that can help you, perhaps in a less traumatic way than karaoke, to be the center of attention, and at the same time stimulate your ability to manage body language or choose the right words.
Organize an evening with friends based on board games: the most interesting ones for practicing public speaking are mime-style ones, like Indomimando , or word games like Taboo .
Storytelling is one of the fundamental weapons at your disposal in public speaking.
You should avoid communicating data and facts as much as possible, and instead try to take your viewers on a journey. A story that should have a beginning and an end, challenges and difficulties to overcome, a final lesson.
For example, I recommend that you start with some interesting information hong kong email list or, even better, a personal anecdote, and end with something strong: a dissenting opinion, a concrete call to action , etc.
This is why it is important to organize your material well: think carefully about the structure of your speech, or rather your story, so that it has the above elements and presents them in the right order.
Talking about some personal experience is always effective because it helps to create a direct connection with the audience: tell your story and how you faced the difficulties that the path put in front of you, presenting the product/service/work/situation you want to talk about as the helper that supported you in reaching the happy ending.
Use public speaking anxiety to your advantage
public speaking microphone
Anxiety creates a series of physical effects in our body such as increased heart rate, sweating, feeling hot, adrenaline rushes.
Do you know what other situation stimulates the same reactions? Excitement.
Yes, exactly: excitement and anxiety have, to a certain extent, the same physical response. It all depends on the point of view from which you look at it.
Am I saying that you should 'trick' your head into believing that the anxiety you feel before public speaking is simply excitement?
Yes, that's exactly right!
If while all these symptoms are manifesting you sit there brooding and telling yourself that you feel bad, that you won't make it, that you'll make a fool of yourself, etc. etc., then the physical reaction will be interpreted as anxiety.
Organize an evening with friends based on board games: the most interesting ones for practicing public speaking are mime-style ones, like Indomimando , or word games like Taboo .
Storytelling is one of the fundamental weapons at your disposal in public speaking.
You should avoid communicating data and facts as much as possible, and instead try to take your viewers on a journey. A story that should have a beginning and an end, challenges and difficulties to overcome, a final lesson.
For example, I recommend that you start with some interesting information hong kong email list or, even better, a personal anecdote, and end with something strong: a dissenting opinion, a concrete call to action , etc.
This is why it is important to organize your material well: think carefully about the structure of your speech, or rather your story, so that it has the above elements and presents them in the right order.
Talking about some personal experience is always effective because it helps to create a direct connection with the audience: tell your story and how you faced the difficulties that the path put in front of you, presenting the product/service/work/situation you want to talk about as the helper that supported you in reaching the happy ending.
Use public speaking anxiety to your advantage
public speaking microphone
Anxiety creates a series of physical effects in our body such as increased heart rate, sweating, feeling hot, adrenaline rushes.
Do you know what other situation stimulates the same reactions? Excitement.
Yes, exactly: excitement and anxiety have, to a certain extent, the same physical response. It all depends on the point of view from which you look at it.
Am I saying that you should 'trick' your head into believing that the anxiety you feel before public speaking is simply excitement?
Yes, that's exactly right!
If while all these symptoms are manifesting you sit there brooding and telling yourself that you feel bad, that you won't make it, that you'll make a fool of yourself, etc. etc., then the physical reaction will be interpreted as anxiety.