Getting Rid of the Fear and Horror of Public Speaking + Coaching Session Package
About
This package includes:
- Our Getting Rid of The Fear & Horror of Public Speaking Course: If you find the prospect of public speaking horrifying, you’re not alone!e.
- One-on-one virtual coaching sessions: Maximize your experience and skill-building opportunities. Coaching sessions will help you bust through barriers that are holding you back in your career and empower you to take command of your personal development.
What You’ll Learn
Discover what’s behind your fear of public speaking and explore techniques that calm the nerves and control the butterflies. Learn to think on your feet and leverage your unique style to present with conviction and composure. Explore ways to make those win over your fears, and your audience!
Why You Want To Learn It
This course concentrates on that all-important first step: confidence to stand in front of a group and speak. You'll learn to see a presentation as nothing more than an expanded conversation; to use a few simple tricks to assuage your fears; and, most importantly, get through the first two minutes of your talk. Once those two minutes are behind you, you can do anything!
How It Will Help You
This is an exercise in letting your “can-do” attitude shine through! You will conquer your fear of public speaking and no longer feel the need to avoid presentations at all costs. Eleanor Roosevelt said it best: “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along....”
Competencies
- Attitude: Maintains a friendly, positive, and enthusiastic outlook.
- Communication: Practices active listening supported with relevant oral and written information.
- Professionalism: Projects an image of honesty, confidence, and integrity that fosters credibility.
- Initiative: Proactively makes things happen. Evaluates and takes corrective action with self and others.
- Interpersonal Skills: Consistently builds strong, long-term relationships both inside and outside the organization.
- Stress Management: Differentiates between dynamic tension and negative stress, and maintains productive behaviors in difficult situations.
Dale Carnegie's Secrets of Success
Principles from How to Win Friends and Influence People show you how to influence others to support your vision. Discover 9 techniques for enhancing relationships, and fundamental techniques for becoming a respected leader. Tips for handling criticism and stress set you free to move forward with new ideas and stronger partnerships. Read More >
Why Empathy Is a Crucial Skill for Leaders
Empathy is not the same as sympathy—sharing someone’s emotions, generally by feeling sad about their circumstances. An empathetic approach is one of action. It’s understanding where that customer or employee is coming from and taking steps to correct problems or pain points. Sympathy will not elicit the same outcome as empathy. Read More >
The Dale Carnegie® methodology is time-tested with thousands of testimonials attesting that it works. From the very start, on an individual level, you will set stretch goals and with the support of the social learning environment, the ‘in-the-moment’ coaching by the highly trained facilitators, the accountability to commitments, progress will be visible to yourself and others. In the Dale Carnegie® methodology, we focus on building strengths to overpower our weaknesses. We believe that everyone has inherent greatness, and it simply needs to be identified and nurtured.
