As its name implies, is a way of making your ideas public of sharing them with other people and of influencing other people.

• Influence

• Frame of Reference

• Speaker

• Public Speaking

The anxiety over the prospect of giving a speech in front of an audience.

• Nervousness

• Positive Nervousness

• Ethnocentrism

• Stage fright

It is a normal, even desirable, zesty feeling before presenting a speech.

• Nervousness

• Adrenaline

• Positive Nervousness

• Situation

Controlled nervousness that helps a speaker for her or his presentation.

• Positive nervousness

• Nervousness

• Interference

• Situation

What the speaker communicates to someone else.

• Speaker

• Message

• Listener

• Channel

You have already taken the first step. You are enrolled in a public speaking course where you will learn about speechmaking and gain speaking experience.

• Use the Power of Visualization

• Think positively

• Prepare, Prepare, Prepare

• Acquire Speaking Experience

• Know that Most Nervousness  is Not Visible

Confidence is mostly the well-known power of positive thinking. If you think you can do it, you usually can.

• Think positively

• Use the Power of Visualization

• Know that Most Nervousness is Not Visible

• Prepare, Prepare, Prepare

• Acquire Speaking Experience

Another key to gaining confidence is to pick speech topics you truly care about - and Then to prepare your speeches so thoroughly that you cannot help but be successful.

• Prepare, Prepare, Prepare

• Do not Expect Perfection

• Use the Power of Visualization

• Know that Most Nervousness is Not Visible

• Think positively

Is the closely related to positive thinking. It is used by athletes, musicians, actors, speakers, and others to enhance their performances in stressful situations.

• Do not Expect Perfection

• Know that Most Nervousness is Not Visible

• Use the Power of Visualization.

• Think positively

• Prepare, Prepare, Prepare,

It is hard to speak with poise and assurance if you think you look tense and insecure.

• Use the Power of Visualization.

• Do not Expect Perfection

• Think positively

• Know that Most Nervousness  is Not Visible

• Acquire Speaking Experience