hi i'm vanessa from speak english with
vanessa calm do you have a fear of
public speaking let me help you have you
ever needed to give a speech in your
native language how about in english a
very non professional study i did of my
friends showed that 99.99% of people
have a fear of giving a speech in public
if you are part of that 0.01% you can go
ahead and leave but oh ok i see everyone
is still there alright today i'd like to
give you some more tools in your public
speaking toolbox to help you feel more
comfortable and confident when you give
a presentation or when you speak in
public to be a confident public speaker
you need to bring your a-game when you
bring your a-game that means that you
are bringing the best part of yourself
forward you are doing your best so let's
talk about three skills that you need in
order to bring your a-game you need to
bring your body game your mental game
and your preparation game to help you
bring your a-game i'm gonna give you a
little presentation this is gonna be a
public speaking practice for me but it's
also a presentation about the way you
can best bring your a-game are you ready
let's go let's start by talking about
your body game when you give a
presentation how are your shoulders are
they hunched forward
are they back do you feel like you're
standing up tall how about your spine is
it leaning over or do you feel like
you're reaching tall to the sky so one
of the most popular TED talks on YouTube
is from a lady called Amy Cuddy and she
was talking about how your posture
affects how other people see you but
it's also how you see yourself so when
you are giving a presentation like this
or even if you stand like this you feel
smaller and less important so if you
stand strong other people will feel like
that too but most importantly you'll
feel like that so that's why we're
talking about your mental game first so
that you can prepare your body
with good posture which will also affect
your mind when you walk into a
conference room to give a speech are you
walking like this kind of hunched over
and not sure of yourself trying to feel
a little bit smaller or are you standing
straight and tall in confident even if
you don't feel like it it's good to have
posture like that you don't have to walk
in like some kind of overconfident
gorilla being a little bit crazy but
being confident with your posture even a
little bit will make a big difference
the next part is your mental game so
we've already talked about your body
game making sure that your body and your
posture is the best it can be
but what about what's going on inside
your head well when you are prepared and
ready and thinking positively about your
presentation it's already the best start
I want you to focus your mind on being
positive this is easier for some people
than for other people some people are
naturally more positive and some people
are naturally more negative about things
in their life so I have one big tip that
will help you to be a little bit more
positive when you're giving a
presentation whether it's in front of a
big crowd of people or just a couple
people or just a business presentation
try to focus on how your presentation
will help other people when you focus on
helping other people and meeting their
needs you're less likely to be stressed
about it yourself so I challenge you to
think about how will this marketing
presentation affect the people I'm
talking with if you think okay my
presentation will help them to get a
better marketing plan and will sell more
then you're already feeling a little bit
more positive for those of you that
really struggle with negative self-talk
so this mental game section is really
tough for you I challenge you every
morning especially right before you're
about to give a presentation to create
some kind of short and easy positive
sentence sometimes we call that in
affirmation and that means that you're
thinking about something that will
positively affect your mind and usually
that's how your presentation will affect
other people so maybe in the morning
when you wake up two days before your
presentation you say my marketing
presentation will help us to sell more
products this is super simple and it's
not really fancy but when you say that
to yourself with a deep breath my
marketing presentation will help us to
sell more products super simple
hopefully it
true you're focusing on the positive
things the impact that your presentation
will have instead of the mistakes that
you'll make and all of those things that
make us feel really nervous the third
game is the preparation game now this is
the one that a lot of us focus on the
most writing the speech making sure we
have the best pictures on our PowerPoint
all of that but do you know what
sometimes we overlook actually saying
the speech out loud
and preparing it verbally if English is
your native language usually it's
recommended that you practice your
speech three times but if English is not
your native language and I imagine if
you are watching this it's probably not
it is best to do it more than three
times three times is not enough this is
my recommendation practice your speech
through twice practice your intonation
the way that you say it make sure that
you have all the words exactly the way
that you'd like them and then on the
third try I challenge you to record
yourself you could just record your
voice that's a good first step but
because we've already talked about how
your body and your mental game are also
really important I challenge you to
record yourself with your phone you can
just set it up it could be really simple
and practice the speech in front of the
camera and then go back watch that as if
you were the audience as if you were
your co-workers sitting and watching
your presentation or if you're giving a
speech in front of a big group of people
imagine that you're the audience how are
you with the audience are you engaging
looking at them are you feeling really
nervous and you can see oh I'm
stuttering a lot I'm shaking a lot try
to assess your your body and your words
as if you were the audience after you've
recorded yourself I want you to practice
it two more times and this is going to
help you to just level up your skills
you've already kind of assessed or
critique yourself so those two other
times should be way better than the
first two times that you did it what do
you think that a professional athlete
does on the day of their big game do you
think that they watch some TV and kind
of just sit around no they do not
distract themselves from their objective
which is winning that game so this is
what I want you to do on the day that
you have a presentation let's say you
have a presentation at 3:00 p.m. when
you go to work
focus on that presentation review it do
everything that you can for that
presentation I want to give you a quick
example about this guy Ryan Sutter he's
a hockey player he has a very strict
game day routine and I think it's a good
way to see that professional athletes
are not distracted on the day of their
big game because they want to fulfill
their potential they want to do the best
they can so you can also kind of imitate
his style on the day of his big game he
goes to the skating rink skates a little
bit talks with his coaches they have a
meeting with the team then his team goes
out to lunch he orders the same thing
you don't need to do that it's a little
extreme but he orders the same thing
every time and then after that it takes
a quick nap and he goes back to the rink
and talks with his co-workers or his
teammates and he talks with the coaches
and he gets a chance to kind of mentally
prepare for the game then they go out on
the ice they practice and they have the
game did he do anything that day that
wasn't related to hockey
not really except eat and take a nap
which is kind of necessary for life so I
want you if you have a big presentation
and you especially feel really nervous
about it focus on nothing else that day
try to surround do everything that you
can possible for that speech on the date
to get your mind ready to prepare
yourself so on the day of your big
presentation I want you to not distract
yourself don't have friends over for
lunch and talk about other things focus
on your presentation visualize it going
well everyone's responding positively
you're having a great time they're
understanding they're learning a lot and
your speech is helping them to improve
their goals
so in conclusion to bring your a-game to
your presentation you need to bring your
body game great posture your mental game
positive thoughts and your preparation
game active practice so thank you so
much for this quick presentation thank
you for learning with me I hope that
your presentation skills will increase
and improve from here how did you enjoy
that presentation my presentation skills
are not perfect my speaking style is not
perfect but I want to bring you a
professional someone who knows a lot
more about public speaking than me so if
you would like to dig deeper into
this topic of having confidence when you
give a speech in public I invite you to
join me in my course The Fearless
fluency Club this month you're gonna
meet Nathan who's one of the organizers
of a local group called Toastmasters
Toastmasters is a non-profit
international organization that helps
anyone in the community who wants to
participate to learn to speak better and
more confidently in front of others I
also visited Nathan's Toastmaster
meeting here in my city so if you join
The Fearless fluency Club this month
you'll get access to my conversation
with Nathan about public speaking skills
some of the positive things he's learned
the negative things he's learned and
you'll also get access to a Toastmasters
meeting I went to this meeting and I
recorded it so you can kind of get a
sneak preview into what a Toastmasters
meeting is like it was actually a lot of
fun so if you would like to learn more
about public speaking feel free to join
me in the fearless fluency Club and make
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it for just $5 for the first month and
now I have a question for you have you
ever given a speech in English have you
ever given a speech in your own language
let me know in the comments below thank
you so much for learning English with me
and I'll see you again next Friday for a
new lesson here in my youtube channel
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bye