Are you ruining your speaking performance?

Do you leave your speaking performance up to chance? Or do you know that you are going to deliver at your best and land everything you plan with the audience? Generally speaking, people are not intentional about public speaking, and it ruins their speaking performance.

Intention is important with the logistics, content, audience connection, but there is one thing that stands above that — whether or not you back yourself to deliver your presentation.

75% of the population have a fear of public speaking. A higher percentage find it stressful. The stress takes over and maybe you feel like you should not be delivering the presentation, like you are some kind of imposter that knows nothing about the topic. You stop backing yourself.

The 4 scenarios of public speaking

When you don’t back yourself you start showing the audience you are not confident. That lack of confidence gets misinterpreted as ‘they don’t know what they are doing’, and your credibility goes out the window.

But there are four scenarios of public speaking:

• You have just learned about a topic and are presenting back on it
• You are presenting your work
• You have been asked to speak about the topic
• You have chosen to speak about the topic

In each of these scenarios you know your stuff. You have knowledge that you can share, because…