Harnessing Your Fear of Public Speaking
Third Edition Mattson, © 2015, 70 pages
This textbook is suitable for a public speaking course, or as a supplement to an interpersonal communications course.
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Ninety percent of the population gets nervous before speaking to a group. Seventy percent think they are the only ones who get nervous.
This book has 18 researched strategies found to be effective in dealing with the anxiety of speaking to a group.
This book is written for the person who just needs to make a few presentations a year, taking a public speaking class, or folks with English as your second language.
This book helps beginning speakers gain confidence and earn better grades in three ways: You know the reason for your nervousness, you have 18 strategies to deal with them, and you will know how to put a short talk together properly.
Many years ago, I failed miserably giving a speech. It had many consequences including loss of income, loss of job promotions, loss of influence, loss of self-esteem, and low self-concept. Thus, I set out to overcome the fear of public speaking determined to improve these consequences. I found a way to do it; however, it was a long journey.
This book will shorten that journey for you.
I looked around for a straight forward public speaking book that specifically dealt with overcoming the fear of public speaking.
All I found was thick textbooks 400 to 600 pages that only had 4-6 pages on the subject. On the other end were short books that were written for the psychology or communication field full of technical jargon that even a dictionary didn't help me understand. In the middle were entrepreneurs and so call motivational speakers that praised themselves on their abilities and accomplishments under the guise of helping me speak that way too.
None of them worked for me.
So a publishers rep suggested I write one. I gathered all my notes and sources and produced such a book.
It is a simple book written in my folksy personality that is easily read and has 18 effective strategies for "harnessing" your fear of public speaking. Some, like me, may never get over the jitters. However, we can still have the self-efficacy that we can still be effective in front of a group.
This book has 18 researched strategies found to be effective in dealing with the anxiety of speaking to a group.
This book is written for the person who just needs to make a few presentations a year, taking a public speaking class, or folks with English as your second language.
This book helps beginning speakers gain confidence and earn better grades in three ways: You know the reason for your nervousness, you have 18 strategies to deal with them, and you will know how to put a short talk together properly.
Many years ago, I failed miserably giving a speech. It had many consequences including loss of income, loss of job promotions, loss of influence, loss of self-esteem, and low self-concept. Thus, I set out to overcome the fear of public speaking determined to improve these consequences. I found a way to do it; however, it was a long journey.
This book will shorten that journey for you.
I looked around for a straight forward public speaking book that specifically dealt with overcoming the fear of public speaking.
All I found was thick textbooks 400 to 600 pages that only had 4-6 pages on the subject. On the other end were short books that were written for the psychology or communication field full of technical jargon that even a dictionary didn't help me understand. In the middle were entrepreneurs and so call motivational speakers that praised themselves on their abilities and accomplishments under the guise of helping me speak that way too.
None of them worked for me.
So a publishers rep suggested I write one. I gathered all my notes and sources and produced such a book.
It is a simple book written in my folksy personality that is easily read and has 18 effective strategies for "harnessing" your fear of public speaking. Some, like me, may never get over the jitters. However, we can still have the self-efficacy that we can still be effective in front of a group.