From the course: Running a Design Business: Presentation Skills
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Coping with nervousness
From the course: Running a Design Business: Presentation Skills
Coping with nervousness
A smart way to think about this, is that your audience will mirror what you are showing them. If you're relaxed and pleasant, they will be too. Many a presenter believes the audience is aware of their nervousness. This is not the case. The audience will give you the benefit of the doubt, believing you're there because you have something important to tell them. I'm often not aware a presenter is nervous until they pick something up and I see their hand is shaking. A presentation is a persuasive conversation where there's something big at stake, so we get nervous. Everyone has experienced butterflies in their stomach. Just knowing what nervousness does to the body helps us objectively understand what's going on. Fear engages our Fight or Flight Mode. We experience the same physiological reaction today as we did when we were cavemen. Our bodies respond the same way to fear whether we're in front of a Saber Toothed Tiger, or a Board of Directors. Our autonomic nervous system controls the…
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