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How to tame your presentation fear? 7 spells! Do you know that presenting is one of the biggest fears? A lot of people experience a lot of nerves, they blush, forget their text, transpire excessively, or lie awake in bed days or even weeks before the big day. Of course there is no beating around the bush with presenting. If we want to reach more in our working life, we will need to learn to look our biggest fear in the eyes. Just like Ron Wemel in the third Harry Potter Movie where he needs to learn to face his biggest fear. In his case a giant big Spider with hairy legs and huge clapping jaws that slowly but surely advances towards him. As soon as Ron cries the spell RIDICULUS, the spider ends up with roller skates on all his hairy legs. The magic here being, once you see the ridiculousness of your fears, they shrink or turn out to be rather silly. U-tube film Ron with big spider (29 seconds) This is the same way with presenting. How could you `ridiculize` your presenting fear and tame your nerves, so your nerves become manageable and the big hairy spider becomes a smaller far more cuter version? Therefore, find 7 spells down below that will shrink down your big, hairy spider to a small, friendly almost cuddling creature with each step. 1) Preparatus! Prepare your presentation well. The better your presentation plan is, the more confident you feel and the more convinced you will be while presenting. Helpful in this respect can be my E-book that will soon be available. 2) Practicatus! Once your presentation is prepared, do it for friends and family! (or in front of the mirror ;-)) As soon as you have done it a few times, your brain has already laid the track, figuratively speaking. It will not be that new to you, so less fearful. The big spider will become much smaller this way. 3) Visulatus! Take 15 minutes to relax and visualize how you want the presentation to go. Hear yourself speaking with a firm voice, see the faces of the audience, feel how you bring your message successfully across. A lot of people unconsciously spent a lot of time with images, thoughts of what could go wrong. Feed your confidence instead of your fear! Research has been done in this respect in the sports world. If you think as a skater I will fall on that spot, the changes will be higher that indeed you will fall on that particular spot. While if you ingrain a film of how you want your presentation to go, the chances are much higher it will happen that way. 4) Foculatus! Manage your focus while presenting. Focus on what you want to say and your audience. Do not pay attention to thoughts like: oh this guy is looking very bored, and they probably think it is stupid. All, this bla, bla, bla is keeping you from doing the job! I have seen it al lot of times, as soon as the presenter is getting side-tracked and gets sucked in into his inner dialogue the connection between the audience and presenter is completely gone. It will happen you can be sure of that. This is not a problem, just slowly but surely correct yourself and get back on track each time it happens. 5) Scripticatus! Prepare a safety net, if you are afraid of a black-out. Keep a card with the script of your presentation nearby. Do not make a problem of not knowing something at a particular moment during your presentation. Just, take the time and check your script and slowly but surely pick up where you left off. If you do not make a problem of it and remain easy going about it, the public will be as well. 6) Movelatus! Use your body to relax. The state of your body translates itself to your performance. Not breathing leads to a high, fast-paced or not audible voice. Standing fixed as a statue the whole time, can lead to a very cramped and inward state of mind. When feeling the nerves, keep breathing and move your body, it will help you to return in the here and now and become more relaxed. 7) Mentilatus! Try adjusting your mindset. Instead of seeing a big hairy spider, see if you can look at it from a different point of view. See a spider with roller skates metaphorically speaking. Change your "It has to be faultless or I it will be a catastrophe" to "I am well prepared and I am going to have fun with it". The first mindset often makes presenters very nervous, cramped and ineffective. While the latter makes them, lively, fun to view and thereby very effective. I will assure you that your creepy presentation spider will be much smaller after having tried and adapted all of the above 7 spells. Good luck with it! Kind regards, Mabel Frumau |
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