| Public Speaking 16:55 - Feb 9 with 5597 views | SgorioFruit |
Today,
there I was sat in a conference room of our headquarters in Cardiff. Around 30 other professional people, more like exec's than anything all sat listening to one person give a presentation.
At these event s I try stay in the shadows and not be noticed, but this time I was asked to stand and say a piece.
Well everything went to rat shit,
I was in a room full of people ive never met, and my legs wobbled, voice started to squeak, then that terrible feeling when you know your face has gone as red as a tomato.
And of course, EVERYONE is sat watching and waiting to hear this garbled jumbled crap that is trying to come out of my mouth.
I couldn't string a sentence together, there were plenty of umms, eerrsss, oookkkkss, but no intelligible speech.
So my question to other members here, do any of you suffer from this lack of confidence when talking to a group at work.
And please someone tell me of their bad experiences so I don't feel alone in this dark horrible professional world, where you have to speak to get noticed. |  |
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| Public Speaking on 11:28 - Feb 11 with 818 views | bluenile |
| Public Speaking on 18:56 - Feb 10 by Millie |
Good post, the more you do it the easier it gets
Take HJ, very nervous 13 years ago, rarely getting up in public, now seams to have contoured the nervy start |
I agree Millie, it's definitely a case of doing it more to get used to it. I think this applies to stand up comedy too, most must have died on their posteriors learning their craft, I play guitar, done so all my life, and I have to say I'm pretty good at it, however I used to hate playing in front of others, when I had a go at getting a band many years ago, my bandmate on bass decided he wanted a new amp, he had extreme confidence, but the guy in one shop was a real ace bass player, and this caused my bandmate to go to pieces in front of him.......weird? Not really, it's just peer pressure, and we all suffer it to some degree or another. A guy who I spoke to who'd played and sang in quite a few bands said "Just do it! The worst that can happen is you'll make a fool of yourself, you won't die!!" |  |
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