FACE YOUR GREATEST FEAR!

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to in FACE YOUR GREATEST FEAR!Have you attended meetings where you wanted and were expectedto contribute and simply did not dare to get up and be heard?Have you toyed with the idea of giving workshops to increase yourbusiness, but shied away because you were too scared to get upin front of an audience?Why is it that so many us, who have worthwhile contributions tomake, avoid getting up in front of a group of people, to put ourthoughts into words? Why is it that small vocal minorities oftenseem to get their way? Why is it that Toastmasters Internationalattracts over 170,000 members every year?Because many people are afraid to address an audience.A U.S. publication, "The Book of Lists" reports thatthe greatest fear of people in North America is to get up in frontof a group of people to make a presentation.
You are not alone!And what do most of us do to overcome this fear? We simply declineinvitations to speak. In other words, we throw away opportunitiesfor career advancement or increased business.
We choose to remainin our comfort zone.If we do accept to speak to an audience, we have a tendency to hide behind electronic wizardry rather than making our speech a promotional platform for ourselves and we fervently hope that the audience does not notice our shaking knees, trembling hands and quivering voice.Real communication takes place when one human being reaches outto others by using his or her own natural wizardry. All the email,faxes and multi-media equipment in the world will not be ableto replace the human voice, body language or emotion in communication.Presentation skills are within all of us but we have often developeda negative attitude towards speaking in public.
Many psychologistsand therapists tend to agree that this phobia about public speakingmight have developed as a learned negative behavior during ourschool years.Kindergarten. Show and Tell.
I bet you can recallseveral of your little class mates who were called upon by theteacher to do their "show and tell" in front of theclass and who left their mark...on the floor, right in front ofthe whole class. That's how scared they were!Elementary School.
Presentations in front of theclass. This was the period when we had crushes, and the subjectof our admiration was snickering at our ineptness!High School.
How did the teacher always know thekid who had not prepared his or her homework? Another humiliationin front of our peers!Is it any wonder that we grow up with this negative attitude aboutgetting up in front of a group to make a presentation? Of coursenot! It is the result of negative conditioning. Since one of thegreatest human motivations is the avoidance of pain, we have learnedthat speaking in front of a group is to be avoided at all costs,because it creates nothing but pain and embarrassment.But there is hope, negative attitudes can be unlearned.
We canlearn effective ways to control this fear and to use our voice,body language and emotion to make successful presentations anddeliver workshops that create results. Here are a few tips:Read the complete article that provides various solutions to overcome this FEAR of speaking in front of a group, in our semi-monthly ezine.mailto:[email protected] the Speaker's Coach Website at:http://www.intranet.ca/~jwaisvisz Article Tags: Greatest Fear Source: Free Articles from ArticlesFactory.com .