Public speaking self-help

Tips for confident speaking

Katie Streten

Imagination

Content

• A bit about me

• All the self help you need!

• A word about meetings

• Conclusion

A bit about me

• Head of Strategy in Imagination/ Digital

• 2 presentation courses

• LAMDA Spoken English Intermediate qualification

• Hate asking questions once a speaker has finished

Addressing fears1Everyone will think I’m a fraud

• You have been asked for your opinion/ to speak

• “the fear of being found out for being a bit rubbish.“Armando Ianucci

Addressing fears 1No one will be interested

• They are there!

• You have been asked to speak

• Think about them what can you give them

How to prepare

• Prepare – Write your script out long hand

• Read it to a friend, partner or yourself (repeat ad nauseam)

• Write card notes • Highlight key moments• Don’t practice too much!

Image is everything

• Bullet points

• Interesting pictures

• Yourself – dress appropriately

Make everyone else relax!

• The first thing you should do – Smile

• Secondly – say hello

• Jokes – If in doubt use other peoples

Make yourself relax!

• Don’t look at the crowd!

• Pick 3 spots to the left, middle and back

• Place your mate at the back to smile at you!

• Speak slowly

Make it feel more like a conversation

• The audience hate it too!

• Move your arms at waist height

• Don’t have a rigid script

Addressing fears 3Don’t fear the speaker

• Most other people are thinking exactly the same as you

• It’s their problem not yours

• You are helping someone in the audience – probably a woman

A word about meetings

• Butt in, don’t wait

• Men are not women

• Your point might not beas irrelevant as you think

Conclusion

• People genuinely want to hear what you have to say

• Think about your audience – what can you give them?

• Butt in and believe that at least one person needs you to ask this question – you!

• If all else fails…..

Please try and remember the full detail of 1 speech you have heard in your life…

…exactly.

Katie Streten

• Twitter.com/watusi• Eyesponge.com and

imagination.com• Slideshare.net/imagination_digital

Any questions? Be brave!