Method 5 – Dress for Success
Welcome to our fifth section on getting rid of your fear of
public speaking –
guaranteed! In this section, who we will be discussing how the
way you look can
dramatically affect the way your speech is received, and can
impact your fear of
public speaking.
First of all, how should you dress when you’re giving a
presentation? Of
course, if you ask 10 different public speakers, you’ll probably
get 10 different
answers. Some speakers feel that you should dress professionally
for every
presentation – that is, a suit and tie for men, and a business
suit or dress for
women. Other speakers feel that dressing professionally creates
distance between
the speaker in the audience, and so they prefer to dress more
casually – male
speakers will sometimes where a dress shirt and khakis, while
female speakers will
wear a nice blouse and dress slacks.
The truth matter is, both are right. What is important here is
to know what
kind of audience you are speaking to, and dress appropriately.
Remember in
section 3, when we talked about knowing your audience and your
environment? If
you have already completed this step before taking the stage to
give a
presentation, then you should already know a little bit about
your audience. And
what you know will impact how you should dress for that
particular audience.
For example, if you are speaking to a group of college students
at a
university, it is probably okay to dress casually. Again, when I
say “dressing
casually”, what I mean is “business casual”. You have to
remember that if you are
giving a speech, you are there to have fun and enlighten your
audience, but you
are also there to conduct business – the business of giving your
presentation.
I stress this point because there are some public speakers that
feel that in
these situations, they are permitted to wear anything that they
please, such as Tshirts
and blue jeans. Well, in some cases, it’s probably true that you
will be
permitted to wear anything you please, but if you show up in a
T-shirt and a pair
of blue jeans, don’t count on being called back to give another
presentation.
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