Method 2 – Use Visual Cues to Help You
Maintain Control
Welcome to the second method for conquering
your fear of public speaking –
using visual cues to help you maintain control. In this section,
we will explore
ways that you can use simple objects to help keep your mind
focused on the
delivery of your speech, and away from the fear of speaking in
front of an
audience.
What do I mean by “visual cues”? When I
use the term “visual cues”, I am
talking about small objects that you can keep in front of you on
the podium, that
you will be able to see at all times during your speech. You
will use these objects
to help you keep your mind on your speech and in your “zone”, so
you don’t start
to lose control of your speech and let the fear of public
speaking creep back into
your mind.
What objects should you use? Well, this is entirely up to you.
Many speakers who contemplate using this method think that they
should
use objects that have a meaning to the audience, or that somehow
ties in with the
message of the speech. It’s certainly fine if a visual cue does
somehow have a
meaning for the audience, and it’s most definitely okay if the
visual cue somehow
ties in to your speech. However, this is not a requirement. Your
visual cue is for
you, not for the audience.
Because the object is for you and not for the audience, it
doesn’t matter
what you use. Public speakers have used everything from a tennis
ball to a
photograph of a loved one to help them maintain control of their
situations when
they are speaking in front of audiences. I have even heard of a
gentleman that
used a hand carved wooden statue that was given to him by a
friend of his family
when he was a child.
The point is, it should just be an object that has some
significance to you.
This doesn’t necessarily mean deep, personal, heartfelt
significance (although that
is okay too).
Of course, if you have an object sitting on the podium that is
likely to attract
a lot of attention, such as a brightly colored ball or an object
that contains flashing
lights, you will want to put the object in a place that is
inconspicuous from the
audience’s vantage point.
You might wonder how using an object that
is not directly related to the
context of your speech can help you to stave off the effects of
public speaking
fear.
Remember when I said a moment ago that the object should have
some
significance to you? Well, you can use this significance that
you attach to the
object to bring back a feeling, jog a memory, can create a
general state of mind as
you are giving your speech.
In the last section, we talked about the “zone”. This is another
way of
getting to that zone, of making it accessible to you at a
moments notice. If you
practice a particular speech at home or in your office, and each
time you practice
that particular speech, you place that object in frxont of you,
you will associate the
confidence that you had when you were practicing your speech
with that object.
What happens then?
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