How Your Voice Contributes to Your Success: Speak Up
In the last post, I shared how our voice contributes to our success. Now, let us look at specifics. In this post, let us look at how volume matters. Recently, after one of my Public Speaking and...
View ArticleHow Your Voice Contributes to Your Success: Rate of Speech
In an earlier post, we discussed how our voice contributes to our success. In the last post, we learnt to project our voice. In this post, let us see how the rate of speech matters when we speak....
View ArticleThis New Year, Resolve to Improve Your Communication Skills
How many times have we told ourselves at the beginning of each year that this year we will get better at whatever we are doing? “I’ll learn a new skill.” “I’ll communicate better.” “I’ll overcome my...
View ArticleWhy are we afraid of public speaking?
Do you remember how you felt when you were asked to speak in front of an audience? You may have felt your throat going dry and your brain going blank. You start sweating, your hands tremble, your heart...
View ArticleHow to Negotiate the Fear of Public Speaking
Imagine that you have been invited to motivate an audience at next month’s meeting at your college or office. Would you look forward to the opportunity and grab it or would you be petrified and turn it...
View ArticleHow to Negotiate the Fear of Public Speaking: Systematic Desensitization
In the last post, I had shared four techniques to negotiate the fear of public speaking. In this post, let me tell you more about one of the techniques-Systematic Desensitization. Systematic...
View ArticleHow to Negotiate the Fear of Public Speaking: Cognitive Modification
What if you have to deliver a presentation tomorrow? You are afraid that you will forget what you have to say. You tell yourself “How embarrassing it would be to go up on stage and forget what to say!...
View ArticleHow to Negotiate the Fear of Public Speaking: Visualisation
Have you faced a situation where the fear of public speaking has got the better of you? We all have, at some point of time or the other, faced this situation. In the last few posts, I have been sharing...
View ArticleHow to Negotiate the Fear of Public Speaking: Practice
In the last few posts we understood why we are afraid of public speaking and how to negotiate this fear. We also learnt about the techniques of systematic desensitization, cognitive modification and...
View ArticleHow to Practice Right
We’ve all heard the adage “Practice makes perfect.” This implies that the more we practice the better we get at whatever we are doing. But, is this really true? What if we are constantly making the...
View ArticleWhat to do When Self-doubt Assails You – 1
Imagine that you have been asked to speak before an audience or deliver an important presentation next week. You break into a sweat at the mere thought of having to face an audience. You develop cold...
View ArticleWhat to do When Self-doubt Assails You – 2
In the last post, we understood what self-doubt is and the reasons for the same. Here are some tips to overcome self-doubt that have worked for me. Compete each day with yourself. Since self-doubt...
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