Speaking in public with confidence

 As Luisa told us, you can have access to the training course entitled "Speaking in public with confidence" through the online training site of the Commission. You cannot access this site outside the Commission due to security reasons. There, you will find other courses on writing which you can also register for.

 

 For those of you who could not join us today, we watched part of the course which led a discussion on how to eliminate stress during a presentation or speech. Here are some of the recommendations tabled during the session:

• imagining that you are part of the audience
• looking at the audience during the delivery
• having a positive image or idea in mind
• starting with a cathartic expression and/or gesture
• spending five minutes by yourself in a quiet setting just before the presentation or speech
• switching to the language in which you will be making the presentation or speech thirty minutes before starting the delivery by reading something, listening to something and/or talking to someone in that language

Please do share any comments in the form of further suggestions, which might help people eliminate stress during the delivery.