Why offer your people training in public speaking?

Speaker addressing a business audience during a communication workshop

 

Because they will thank you for that training. It’s much more than public speaking. It’s confidence building, communication enhancing and team building.

Help us communicate and we will be a stronger team. Imagine that. What are the most critical elements of an effective and winning team? 

Trust and effective communication.

Communication skills. How does the team speak and connect with each other? Where are the gaps and how can we fix that? How might we be better communicators?

What does Public Speaking mean?

Public speaking might be a misunderstood phrase because anytime you speak in public, you are public speaking. That might be speaking to one person, a few people, hundreds or thousands. Those are all instances of public speaking. In fact, anytime you are speaking in the presence of other people, you are public speaking.

Let’s agree that all speaking is public speaking.

What is the fear of public speaking?

Perhaps you’ve heard that our greatest fear is public speaking. The pundits claim that people are more afraid of public speaking than dying. 

I believe that is not true. It’s a gross exaggeration. I understand that public speaking is a common fear and source of anxiety. Let’s be clear if you’re given the choice between dying or public speaking, which would you choose?

You might still be anxious about speaking yet you’d pick that over dying??? Tell me if I’m wrong on that.

Let’s consider the reality. Speech anxiety or the fear of public speaking is real. It is a normal response to a speaking opportunity.

Why are we anxious about public speaking?

We are social beings and naturally concerned how we might be judged by others. When we speak in public, we’re worried about what people might be thinking about us. Do they like us? Do they respect us? Did we mess up? 

How can public speaking training boost your confidence?

A good training program will:

  • Point out the reality of public speaking anxiety
  • Offer a simple process to prepare your presentation
  • Provide exercises to boost your confidence
  • Demonstrate techniques to present more effectively
  • Help your outline and prepare a credible presentation


When you know what you are doing, what you face and how to get there, you will become a more confident and credible public speaker.

The good news about public speaking training?

It’s not a natural talent that you have or don’t. Effective public speaking is a skill set that can be learned. You can learn that from a training program and you can enhance the training with one-on-one private coaching.

Help your team boost their public speaking with group training to give them that initial boost of communication and presentation skills.

Then stand back as they exhibit their newfound confidence and presentation skills.

How can you develop your public speaking skills and confidence?

By attending training programs that are geared to boost your confidence, clarity and delivery skills. Then when you are ready, you graduate to one-on-one coaching programs for public speaking.

Public speaking is a skill set that you can develop if you decide to do that. Like all skills, you need training, coaching and encouragement from your team.

Let’s get started boosting the speaking skills of your team.