Addressing Stage Fright:

During Toastmasters last week I gave a speech on addressing stage fright. This can be useful for storytellers, author panels or given presentations at work. I gave these suggestions and then found additional recommendations from websites off the Internet.

Visualize ourselves as speaking successfully
speak clearly
Modulate our voice.
To address our body reactions to fear, prior to your speech, bend over and swing your arms and roll your shoulders. This will loosen tight areas.
We worry about how we will be perceived:
Know that there a very good chance the subject you speak about will be of interest to one or more people in your audience.
When you present your data with facts and references it presents you as an authority.
Try to share a message that is important to you.
As you look at responses see who is receptive (by facial expression or body language to what you’re saying. Now you have someone specifically in your corner and you can imagine you’re talking to them even though you will share eye contact with various people in your audience.

Here are some ideas I’ve gotten from other Internet sources:

Performance anxiety is what happens when you focus on yourself and your anxiety, rather than your presentation or performance.
Think positive things about your content
Have a great opening line to start your speech
Include a personal experience earning your speech that you’re most comfortable about reading the story
Know your topic.
Practice, practice, practice so that your mind knows exactly what is expected to be done next
Resist the negative self-talk and replace it with positive self-talk
I heard a great point of advice when people are doing a speech contest. They suggested that you imagine the judges all sit in behind the table in their underwear
Visualize the outcome of a successfully presented speech. I’ve heard that many athletes will actually dream of them playing again successfully even while the relaxing they imagine successful moves and activities that create a successful game do the same for your speech.
It’s often helpful to uncover the deeper fears related to being seen and heard by others, showing vulnerability, and being considered less than perfect.
This may include dressing nice and good a good night sleep the night before and arriving early
Plan in advance persona may go wrong. Here are two possible scenarios for a Microsoft working. One you simply increase your volume and to. You might say okay who disagrees the mic owner disagrees my with my last comment was some such joke
One time I was teaching a class for children American history. I had all these pages ready to post up on the board and a child to a ball and scattered all the papers across the floor those pages were not numbered or ordered. So that created some difficulty in the priest teaching this lesson. Something I should’ve considered is maybe having a binder that would a Though she’s to paper together until I pulled one away each time I needed it
Many Thais and people are nervous they will rush through the presentation but the speech will sound more natural if you provide pauses to help emphasize a certain point to let your listeners contemplate a topic that you just presented and is more natural in the communication of your speech
Remember that the people in a sizable audience are exactly the same ones you talk to individually,
Focus on the first five minutes because usually after you’re done speaking the five minutes the rest is much much easier
Concentrate on having a conversation with your listeners. You’ll be at your best in every way.
Don’t apologize for being nervous for many times most the time people can’t tell you are.
People really don’t care about you. They’re in the audience to get something out of your lecture, presentation, speech, or talk.
Arrived early so that you’re not trying to catch up is not adding frustration to your presentation and you also want to have all your tools and resources and displays ready and pretested
Do your homework (and analyzed your audience
Stretch and maybe try some breathing exercises to help your body calmed down
Do pay attention to how you stand, sit, gesture, and move when you’re with your friends. Then work on recreating your natural movement with larger audiences.