Nervous? Dont calm down, get excited! – How to deliver a powerful presentation.
Announcement posted by PowerfulPointsAUS 22 May 2018
Why getting excited about your presentation will endure you get your message across.
It’s human nature to be anxious
We all get nervous before an important presentation and I’m often asked about ways to overcome nervousness before we present. Most try to eliminate the anxiety by calming down but, as research shows, this is the worse possible option.
The research, out of Harvard Business School and published in the esteemed “Journal of Experimental Psychology”, took on the subject of re-framing anxiety to either calmness or excitement prior to presenting. The results produced a statistically significant improvement in performance along a range of measures, including persuasiveness, confidence, competency and persistence, as well as the duration of the speech.