How To Overcome The Fear Of Public Speaking As An Entrepreneur - Part 4

in Project HOPE3 years ago

Good day everyone! This is the fourth part and the final part of this interesting series, titled, How To Overcome The Fear Of Public Speaking As An Entrepreneur. Knowing how to speak publicly is a must for any entrepreneur who wants to become successful in life. Check out Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and so on, they all know how to speak publicly, because they have to convince shareholders, motivate their employees and list goes on and on. In this article, I will be sharing with you one awesome tips on how you can be able to overcome the fear of public speaking.


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Know Your Topic & Audience

The starting point of being an excellent speaker is for you to really care about your topic and audience. When you speak about something you passionately care about, you will be more comfortable and feel more confident in your element. Make sure the topic you are making a presentation about have an inordinate impact on you. You want to share it with others, you strongly feel others could benefit from your knowledge and you can speak about it from your heart. When you know your topic, it will be easier for you to focus entirely on the subject at hand and how to put it across clearly and succinctly to your listeners. When you speak try to get into rhythm or a flow. Keep your sentences short and straight to the point and repeat key point. A short pause in between points can add anticipation to what you are going to say next, making the audience more interested in your speech. You can also get your audience focus and interested in your presentation by using power point. Having power point will help you stay organized, help you if you lose your train of thought, keep your audience engaged and give your audience a good place to grab notes and main points from your speech.


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It is also a good idea to know your audience. Knowing your audience before hand, like who they are, what they do, what are the topics that interest them, will also make you choose a topic that they will be interested in and not get bored while you are delivering the speech. However, don't overthink your audience reaction. There is always going to be someone in the audience on their phone or yawing. When you remember that their always be someone who is bored and it has nothing to do with you or the way you do your presentation, the better for you. So, stay calm and don't let the audience reaction bother you instead focus on you material and on how to best deliver it. Humor is known as the best tool to put not only ourselves but also our audience at ease. You can use this technique to connect better to your audience and make them also feel better at ease with you, thereby making them listen more to your presentation. Even if you are giving presentation on your favorite topic you can still make mistake or goof around. I mean, we are all humans and we bungle up sometimes. So be prepare to laugh at yourself, if at all you goof up on stage while presenting be the first to acknowledge it and then move on. A does of humor is great in stressful situation and you will see that you will have your audience laughing along with you and not at you, leaving you all connecting well with each other.


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I hope you guys found the article quite interesting, if you do, kindly like and comment below. Thanks for reading through the article.


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I agree with you, friend @funmiblog, knowing how to transmit what we think is essential to be successful in life, we may have many wonderful ideas, but if we do not also know how to get them to the public that could help us make them come true, it is very difficult to achieve success.

Talking (or writing) about the topics that we master will obviously facilitate our work and as you say will make us feel more comfortable, in the same way, by taking the characteristics of the audience we will be able to modulate our voice, adapt the level of expertise in the language used, take advantage of local references or deal with the subject from a specific point of view, all in order to ensure that our message arrives clearly and precisely.

If you allow me a humble suggestion, try to separate your publication into several blocks of text, that in addition to simplifying and stimulating reading generates more visual appeal to it.

Best regards

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If you allow me a humble suggestion, try to separate your publication into several blocks of text, that in addition to simplifying and stimulating reading generates more visual appeal to it.

I do not understand, can you kindly elaborate please.

Thanks for this awesome comment 🙂 @karupanocitizen

With pleasure since you allow me, the idea would be something like this:

It is also a good idea to know your audience. Knowing your audience before hand, like who they are, what they do, what are the topics that interest them, will also make you choose a topic that they will be interested in and not get bored while you are delivering the speech. However, don't overthink your audience reaction. There is always going to be someone in the audience on their phone or yawing.

When you remember that their always be someone who is bored and it has nothing to do with you or the way you do your presentation, the better for you. So, stay calm and don't let the audience reaction bother you instead focus on you material and on how to best deliver it.

Humor is known as the best tool to put not only ourselves but also our audience at ease. You can use this technique to connect better to your audience and make them also feel better at ease with you, thereby making them listen more to your presentation. Even if you are giving presentation on your favorite topic you can still make mistake or goof around. I mean, we are all humans and we bungle up sometimes.

So be prepare to laugh at yourself, if at all you goof up on stage while presenting be the first to acknowledge it and then move on. A does of humor is great in stressful situation and you will see that you will have your audience laughing along with you and not at you, leaving you all connecting well with each other.

Of course, I fully understand that when developing a topic, the fundamental thing is to develop the idea in a single paragraph as long as there is continuity in the speech, however, you have to try to write in such a way that the idea can be developed in several fragments with phrases or connectors between they.

In this case I only divided the text into parts so that you can see how the appearance of it changes and how it invites more to read it than when it is written in a single block of text.

In particular, I try that each paragraph I write does not exceed five or a maximum of six lines for each one, this so as not to make heavy reading.

I hope my advice can be of use to you

Best regards @funmiblog

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