How to Present to a Live Audience - Non-verbal communication

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I'm not sure you can let go of nervousness, but you can learn how not to
show it. We need to be nervous: if we're not nervous, we don't have the adrenaline
If we don't have the adrenaline, we can't speak with enthusiasm, and I expect
everybody who's been to a presentation where somebody just talked like this and
they were not nervous because they knew their subject and the audience was
glazing as they spoke, so nervousness is important but you must use it as a tool and not as an enemy.
So I speak now, I'm nervous, I'm being filmed so I'm using my
body language but I'm using it, I'm not going I'm not letting it freeze me so
use it to, your body language, to release that nervousness slightly so it is okay
to move, it's okay to move your arms. Obviously it's not okay to do big
movements that are distracting but it's all about looking okay and feeling okay
and making your audience feel okay so that they're ready to receive
the message
To interact with the audience which is a very important thing to do you must look
at your audience. It's, I know it's a scary thing to do and it really doesn't matter
whether your audience is 5 people or 500 people: it's still scary. You get up
there and they're there looking at you but you need to look back! It is a
two-way process. If you don't look at them you don't know if they're listening,
you don't know if they've understood, you know if they're asleep,
you don't know anything and you're not talking to them you're just
reciting something. Looking into your audience is vital.
If I'm in an audience and I'm considering a good lecture it is somebody who has enthusiasm, speaks
clearly, looks at the audience, looks as if they are genuinely interested in what
they have to say, that what they've been working on is interesting and that they
love it, and that they're looking at me for my reaction. The most
important thing is that you feel comfortable again in what you're wearing
because if you're uncomfortable when you're standing up there and speaking, it
will show, so wear something you are comfortable in. Now, unfortunately, if this
means that what you're comfortable in is a tatty t-shirt and jeans with holes in
that's fine but you have to remember that that may take the audience's
attention away from what you have to say just as much as if you're wearing a suit
that's too tight and you look very uncomfortable in it.
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