Exam 2: Public speaking Flashcards
What do people fear more of, dealth or public speaking?
Public speaking
What are the steps of EBP process?
What are the steps on managing fear?
- pinpoint emotional triggers
- Physical symptoms
- Tips to help
What are the emotional triggers of public speaking?
- Fear of the unknown
- Failure
- Worrying about what people think
What are the physical symptoms
- Rapid heartbeat
- Queasy stomach
- Sweating and drymouth
What are tips to manage fear?
- Practice (BEST)
- Visualize a great speech
- Have a beverage handy (pause)
- Relax
- Take slow, deep breaths
- Stretch before you speech
What are 5 public speaking tips to speak with confidence
- Know your subject: easier time to give speech about things you know, rehearse speech, do icebreak speech about yourself
- know your audience and space: know who and where-> can create limitations, language differences (college vs kids), how they will experiece your speech, make sure you have space on stage, know the apps you will use for online speech, facualty knows you need media
- Keep going: do not say sorry, for example skipping words. Takes away from speech and focus on mistake
- Imagine yourself giving a great speech: Visualize-> words and body language that emotionally connects you with audience, it will make you relax
- Focus on message and not on self: keep what is important on mind
What can help or hurt the words you say?
body language
How does anxiety play a part in body language?
Can cause you to shift weight, fixing clothes, glasses
* shift attention away from message
Calm nerves with practice and planning out body language to match your speech
What are the different types of gestures
- Descripitive: words clearer (hand on heart)
- Emblematic: culture-strong emotion
- Representational: information on what you are doing (chopping, throwing, picking something up)
- Pantomine: ask audience to participate
What do you need to coordinate during your speech?
Eye contact, gestures and filling the spcae
What are the tips for rehearsing speeches
- Know your material: choose a subject what is familar, topic that you are passinate
- Be converational: help you engage with audience
- Practice: Rehearse out loud, do it standing, blue notecard (less obvious), allows you hear pace, tone and filler tone, know speech backwards and fowards
- Know the room and media: factors into your speech and allows you to prepare, rehearase in presenter mode
- Never apologize: weakens your creditablity, always have a back up plan
Lavaliere microphone:
- Wireless -> powered by batteries
- Most common types: over the ear and clothes
- Give speaker the freedom to move around
Lectern microphone
* What is useful?
conceal the notes
handheld microphone
* Used for what?
- as a backup
- only one hand can be used to gesture
