From the course: Communication Foundations

Tool kit: Managing nervousness

From the course: Communication Foundations

Tool kit: Managing nervousness

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- You learned seven strategies to reduce your speaking related nervousness. In this toolkit, we'll prioritize and put them to work. Open your calendar and find an upcoming presentation or conversation that might incite some anxiousness. I see that I have an online training coming up. I use an outside game platform to teach this workshop, and I'm worried that the technology won't work and I won't have a clue what to do. Now, choose two techniques from our list of seven that you think will be most beneficial for you in your situation. For example, I realize I need to terminate my negative self-talk and I need to alternate my practice. You're choosing from these seven strategies, breathing, reframing, easing into your fear, alternating your practice, terminating negative self-talk, heart rate up, empathizing. Okay, now that you have your two top choices, let's map a plan. When I think I won't have a clue what to do, I'll say quietly to myself, stop. I am an experienced and flexible facilitator. In fact, I'm going to add those exact words to my calendar on the day of the program, and I'll put a sticky note in my paper file so I see my new mantra each time I'm working on this project. I realize that practicing with the technology will help me feel more confident. So I'm going to ask a few friends to log in and let me practice navigating in the system with an audience. Right now I'll pause and invite those people. And what are your action steps? Drop your ideas into the Q&A below. We'd love to see how you're increasing your speaking confidence.

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