THINK FAST, TALK SMART

HAVE YOUR ANXIETY UNDER CONTROL

-85% Of people are nervous while speaking in public, the 15% rest are lying
-everybody is nervous.
-speaking in front of other is top five of all time fears
---we need to learn to manage our anxiety
-your job as a presenter is to make your audience comfortable in order for them to
recieve your message

1. When you begin to feel those anxiety symptoms.

-we shld greet our anxiety - acknowledging tht is normal and natural
-this stems the tide from spinning up

reframe how you see the stuation, most people feel like they are performing when
they are speaking
-when you performa you knw there is a wrong and right way to do it,
-but when you present thee is no right way.
-we neeed to look at presenting not as a performance rather than a conversation

-1. start by questions, this gets your audience involved, they cn be rhetorical
pulling
-rather than writing bullet points, list questions tht you gon answer
-this makes it conversational

2. use conversational language- dont distance yourself physically, we use language

tht distances like " one mst consider.."
instead use "this is important to you, the second thing you should consider is
this"

3. if you cn bring yourself in the present moment rather than get fixated on future
states, you deliver better results
-be present oriented. eg be physically active, walk arnd a building, listen to
music, count backwords.
say tongue twister- forces you to be in the moment or youll be wrong and youll warm
up your voice
-most speakers dont warm their voices

HOW TO FEEL MORE COMFY SPEAKING IN SPONTANEOUS SITUATUION

STEPS

1 GET OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY

-We hinder ourselves, we stock pile.
-we are constantly planning to get it right yet its only doing that will get it
right.
-your brain is there to help you, but try wipe its suggestions help you and try
again
-train yourself to get out of your own way.
-in spontaneous speaking situations you put too much prssure on yourself to gett
hings right
and this prevents you from being spontaneous
-you need to respond in a genuine way.
-dare to be dull, rather striving for greatness, dare to be dull
-when you over evaluate and over analyse, you get in your own way.

2. give gifts/REFRAME THE SPEEAKING SITUATION AS AN OPPORTUNITY

-In that case you create it to be more fun
Yes And--is an approach you take.
-when asked a question say Yes then follow thru with an explanation

3. SLOW DOWN AND LISTEN

-Inorder to guve great response you need to listen.
-focus and listen, you have to be in the moment you cnt think ahead.
-this makes you offer a more targeted response.
-Dont s do smthng, stand there.

4. TELL A STORY
-We have to respond in aa structural way.
-structure increases processing fluency
-we process structrured information easily 40% more thn unstructured information
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two of the structures we can use are
1
--problem/opportunity
--solution--of solving the problem
--benefits- of folowing thru on it

-never loose your audience and this is where structure is needed.

2.
--WHAT/WHO- What it is
--SO WHAT/WHY- why its important
--NOW WHAT/WHT NEXT- what the next steps are

wonderful formula of answering questions/ introducing people

-whn u r in a speakin situation you need to figure out what to say and how to say
it
-these structures teach you how to say it.
-we hve within our ability the tools and approaches to handle spontaneous speaking.

physical participation, games, tell them to imagine something, pulling questions.

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any situation that has planned preparation

-think of ideas and themes and put them necessarily .
-that fits the needs in the moment.
-dont cram, paraphrase it as the question comes thru.
-have a back up plan.
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