Developing Confidence through the Speech Planning Process

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Developing Confidence through the Speech Planning
Process

• Chapter 2

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Public Speaking Anxiety?

• 76 of experienced speakers feel fearful before
  presenting a speech
• Meryl Streep, Barbra Streisand, Billy Graham

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Understanding Anxiety

• Public Speaking Apprehension a type of
  communication anxiety where a person experiences
  fear anticipating or actually speaking to an
  audience.
• 15 of US population experiences public speaking
  anxiety

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Signs of Public Speaking Anxiety

• Anticipation reaction prior to giving a speech
• Confrontation reaction as you begin your speech
• Adaptation reaction gradual decline of anxiety
  that begins about one minute into your
  presentation

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Causes

• Biologically Based Temperament
• Introversion, extroversion, neuroticism
• Previous Experience
• Modeling
• Reinforcement
• Level of Skills skill deficit

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Overcoming Public Speaking Anxiety

• Communication Orientation Motivation
• Performance vs Communication
• Visualization
• Joe Ayres and Theodore Hopf
• Systematic desensitization
• Relaxation!!!!!!
• Cognitive Restructuring
• Positive Self-Talk vs Negative Self-Talk
• Public Speaking Skills

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Specific Techniques

• All time to prepare!!!!
• Practice your speech aloud!!!
• Choose an appropriate time to speak
• Use positive self-talk
• Face the audience
• Focus on your message
• Use visual aids

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Effective Speech Planning

• Select a specific speaking goal
• Understand your audience adapt
• Gather evaluate research
• Organize develop ideas
• Choose presentational aids
• Practice, Practice, Practice

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General Speaking Goals

• Informative
• Persuasive
• Motivational
• Entertaining
• Specific Goal General goal, audience, speech
  topic
• To inform my classmates on the process of
  registering for classes at SSCC.