GreatVocalist:
When you have an indepth knowledge of what you want to talk about, confidence and boldness will come.

Don't focus too much on the performance. Know and understand what you want to talk about really well, the rest will take care of itself.

Trust me.

I have social anxiety, and I'm a teacher. I teach a group of really smart students, and quite a number of them. I make sure I try to know what I want to teach before anything else, and that gives me enough confidence that I need.

Just get in front of your audience, start, and you'll find your ground asap. If you're a believer in Christ, please pray.

Break a leg!

Very Smooth!!

@Op to add to this ; pace your breathing, calm your pulse, don't rush your words. Avoid eye contact with the crowd while speaking, continuously scan the hall or class with your eye leveled and gazing at their foreheads or between the eyes.
Except you have a very good friend or colleague among the crowd, then you can focus your gaze and attention on him/her

Silentgroper:
you're introverted... Which means you're still liable to talk someone to death..


Could that be what cul.er was trying to avoid...

Yes I can be a talkative to someone I've open up to,as in someone I've kinda free with else na silence you go chop. 😆

You sef saw how childish, unapologetic and arrogant he was and you did blame him for that unnecessary outburst or you think I didn't see it. 😆. So much from someone I was just beginning to open up to. Na werey he be.
How many people I Dy even talk to like that for here self. You too like amebo.

Oya let's do Uyai amebo, I had she's married to a nairalander, is it true or you don't know about it?

LotaTee:
Do you have a fear of public speaking? Or you struggled with it in the past but somehow found a way to overcome it, I'd like you to please share your experience with it and how it has impacted your life.

My first time was during my undergraduate days, when I was tutor my coursemate a course every other person considered tough.

I froze mid sentence in less than 30seconds and I was bailed out by a friend who was to handle another topic, that messed me up big time but I didn't let it crushed me.

I went back to learn the art of public speaking by reading books, watching videos, and practicing in front of mirrors.
Except if I don't know the subject matter which I will stylishly flip to the topic I am master in😉

LotaTee:
Same here! I have a presentation coming up soon and I'm so nervous. Introversion, shyness and public speaking are a terrible mix.

*The key is to make sure you're never caught off guard - Preparation Prevent poor performance!
*Cultivate the habit of taking a long breath, and pronouncing tongue twisting/long words em-pha-ti-cal-ly!(it builds confidence)
*You are the center of attention, never put yourself in a situation where you have to speak in a rush!
*Speak with your head raised - your focus should be on the last persons in the gathering.
*You're Afraid people will laugh at you? It's nothing! You need their feedback to perform even better next time!

Thank you for your contributions everyone, keep them coming!

Youth service (NYSC) really helped me. As a stammerer I used to have this nervous feeling when talking in crowds and I do run from any public speaking, but that changed during NYSC, as I was posted to a Secondary school that has a population of over 50 people per class, whis has A,B,C,D. I was assigned to teach 8 classes, Ss1 and Ss2, though at first I felt nervous and shy of entering any class to teach, as most students ridiculed me secretly of stammering. But with time I got used to teaching for hours in front of multiple crowds, addressing them on the assembly ground, and also presenting on CDS days (Thursdays). I do feel a bit nevous before any public speaking, but the most important thing is that I know what I want to say and I say it directly without any fear, with that, the nervous feeling just disappear, then wallow 🕊️ I am good to go.

I haven't done any public speaking to crowds I'm not familiar with, if it happens to me I might freeze, but I don set up plans to overcome it as I'm aware that it isn't a good thing especially for a man.

Silentgroper:
to be shy is to be nervous ...

They practically mean the same thing..

I disagree

LotaTee:
Do you have a fear of public speaking? Or you struggled with it in the past but somehow found a way to overcome it, I'd like you to please share your experience with it and how it has impacted your life.

Yes, I had phobia of crowd, especially when addressing them, infact the fear was real when I wanted to defend my IT.

How I overcome was to flow like water and keep a smiling face, less tense, since then that fear is gone and I can actually speak in public now