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Executive Communication Essentials
Overcoming Stage Fright and Performance Anxiety
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Learn how to portray the attitude you want your audience to feel
Learn how to manage your speech anxiety
Our Goal Today
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Are You Boring or Brilliant?
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Are You Boring or Brilliant?
Boring speakers….
Talk AT people
Talk about things that are of little interest to listeners
Often use notes or read directly from a text
Brilliant speakers…
Are in conversation WITH people
Talk about things that matter to the listeners
Speak from working memory
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How you look matters
Your attitude is everything:
Comfortable
Competent
Happy to be speaking with you
I belong here
M-B
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Executive intelligence
Thinking
Feeling
Reptilian
Judgment
Executive Intelligence
Fear takes over
Reptilian brain takes over
Executive intelligence is hijacked by fear
“Most dangerous mental disability is fear”
Dr. Hallowell
Thinking
Feeling
Alligator
Judgment
Reptilian Brain
Stimulus-response
How rats act
Stimulus
Response
Dog
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But people don’t HAVE to respond
Choice
Stimulus
Response
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Anxiety
A “Bad Feeling” — Uncomfortable
Want to shut it off:
Avoid communication
Build wall around you
anxiety
Fear of something that might happen
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Create dialogue
Types of Anxiety
Situation Anxiety
Reframe situation to conversation
Practice conversational language
Use questions to get dialogue
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Visualization
Types of Anxiety
Audience Anxiety
Visualization of the environment helps desensitize and reduce fear
Think about who audience is
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Be present
Types of Anxiety
Goal Anxiety (future-focused)
Stay present in the moment
Think about who audience is
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heartbeat
Pulse Rate
Minutes
Start
Resting Pulse
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10
15
200
160
140
100
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Communication Anxiety
Communication Anxiety Theodore Clevenger, Ph. D.
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Cerebral Cortex
Brain Stem
Slim, cylindrical shape
Catecholamine
Surge
Locus
Coruleus
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5
4
2
Amygdala
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3
Biochemistry of anxiety & fear
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bad solutions
Avoid communication
Be loud and aggressive
Understand fear and evolution
Bad solutions
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Anxiety management
If You Are TOO Cool:
keeps the fear high
you look unreal
anxiety
Use your energy
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Anxiety
Too much energy
Extra movement/Voice
Bring metabolism down
Meditation
Breathing
Positive visualization
Holding in energy
Being cool/Holding back
Use the energy
Say “I’m excited”
Breathing
Positive visualization
Anxiety management
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It’s exciting!
Say “I’m excited”
…Excited to be here
…Excited by these ideas
…Excited to be speaking with you
excitement
You’re excited
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1. Inhale 2 sec.
2. Pause
3. Exhale 2 sec.
Avoid: Backdraft
Give your body time to process oxygen
Calm down breathing
Like a lullaby Count = 3
Inhale
Exhale
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Fill your mind with positive thoughts
Have a list of 3 vivid, positive memories
PRACTICE!
solutions
Do it
Your brain is the boss
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solutions
Do it
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Two things I’m going to do
Take control!
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Your 1st Speaking Experience
Know your story, “My Scariest Moment,” well
Play it back in your head and describe what you see
Talk with your audience, not at them
How to stand
Use an athletic stance (feet shoulder-width apart)
Hold still (don’t sway or shift your weight)
Bare hands (don’t hold anything)
Hands above waist (Kangaroo Paws)
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