Sitara has confided in you that she is terrified of giving her fist speech in class and is even thinking of
dropping the course so that she doesn't have to give the presentation.
Consider what you've learned in
this chapter, and offer Sitara at least three specific pieces of advice that she can use to help manage her
nervousness.
What will be an ideal response?
1. Know how you react to stress and make a plan.
2. Know your strengths and weaknesses and build on the strengths while avoiding the weaknesses.
3. Know speech principles and draw on that knowledge.
4. Know that it always looks worse from the inside, and that the audience will not be able to detect
your nervousness.
5. Know your speech—prepare and practice it.
6. Believe in your topic. If you find it interesting, your audience will too.
7. View speech making positively.
8. Visualize success.
9. Project confidence, even if you're not feeling it.
10. Test your message on a test audience.
11. Practice, practice, practice.
12. Gain perspective after your speech by evaluating your performance and the audience response to
it.
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