Controlling Nervousness

Description

This class offers actions to take and mindsets to shift, to help you first to get through your upcoming speaking event, and second, to move past the stress and discomfort, so you can learn other techniques to present your ideas more effectively.

Are you uncomfortable at Meetings when you have to give an update on your current projects and your work plans for the coming week? This course will help you reduce the stress this situation causes you.

Will you be giving a Presentation for the first time, or to a larger audience or in a different environment than you are used to? This class will help you think through scenarios of what could happen so you can be better prepared.

Are you preparing for a Social Situation, like a date or giving a speech at a friend's wedding? This class will teach you to think of this event in a positive way, allowing your true self to show.

These steps are intended to support you while you learn to control the symptoms of your nervousness so you can reach beyond the event that you are preparing for and connect with your audience.  Connections can be built when you are speaking – giving a presentation, offering a toast, or just outlining project tasks at a meeting - unless you are distracted by feelings of nervousness. I created this class to provide options to help you manage those distractions.

These 8 short lessons provide tools and techniques to help you get control of both physical and emotional manifestations of your nervous energy. 

Step 1: Intentional Breathing where you will learn to use your diaphragm to breathe more deeply and turn off the adrenaline rush.

Step 2: Smile where you will learn to find the smile you are comfortable showing and to use it to release feel-good chemicals in your brain.

Step 3: This Gift where you will adjust the focus of the speaking opportunity from the action of you speaking to the content of the message you are providing.

Step 4: Prepare & Practice where you will identify specific pieces of that message, different members of your audience, and the importance of making time to practice sharing your message.

Step 5: Where Do I Look? Where I will offer suggestions for making eye contact and using notes.

Step 6: Visualize where you will create a detailed description of the best version of yourself during your speaking opportunity.

Step 7: Location, Location, Location where you will learn to take control of the whole room.

Step 8: Transparency where you will explore how to neither hide nor expose how nervousness affects you and how to continue to control only what needs to be controlled.

You may not want or need every step, but listen to all, try them out, and choose what works best for you.

I hope to see you in Step 1!

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