Confident Public Speaking Skills

Hi, I'm Vanessa from SpeakEnglishWithVanessa.com.

Do you have a fear of public speaking?

Let me help you.

Have you ever needed to give a speech in your native language?

How about in English?

A very nonprofessional study I did of my friends show that 99.99% of people have a fear of

giving a speech in public.

If you are part of that 0.01% you can go ahead and leave.

But oh, okay, I see everyone is still there, all right.

Today I'd like to give you some more tools in your public speaking toolbox to help you

feel more comfortable and confident when you give a presentation or when you speak in public.

To be a confident public speaker, you need to bring your A game.

When you bring your A game, that means that you are bringing the best part of yourself

forward.

You are doing your best.

So let's talk about three skills that you need.

In order to bring your A game, you need to bring your body game, your mental game, and

your preparation game.

To help you bring your A game, I am going to give you a little presentation.

This is going to be a public speaking practice for me, but it's also a presentation about

the way you can best bring your A game.

Are you ready?

Let's go.

Let's start by talking about your body game.

When you give a presentation, how are your shoulders?

Are they hunched forward, are they back?

Do you feel like you're standing up tall?

How about your spine?

Is it leaning over or do you feel like you're reaching tall to the sky?

So one of the most popular TED Talks on YouTube is from a lady called Amy Cuddy.

And she was talking about how your posture affects how other people see you.

But it's also how you see yourself.

So when you are giving a presentation like this, or even if you stand like this, you

feel smaller and less important.

If you stand strong, other people will feel like that too.

But most importantly you will feel like that.

So that's why we're talking about your body game first, so that you can prepare your body

with good posture, which will also affect your mind.

When you walk into a conference room to give a speech, are you walking like this, kind