MGTA36H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Comfort Zone, Stage Fright, Diaphragmatic Breathing
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What makes a superior presentation / speech? (ccttph) Performance anxiety: having fear/anxiety when you have to speak in front of an audience or during an interview. It limits you, creates multiple roadblocks, erodes your self esteem, causes you to make unnecessary mistakes keeps you in a dysfunctional comfort zone reinforces your belief that you will speak poorly, stops you from building you confidence. Strategies to help eliminate filler words from your vocabulary: awareness record yourself talking on the phone, ask friends to stop you each time you say a filler word. Roadblocks we encounter when we are required to speak: Lack of confidence, performance anxiety, fear of making mistakes, apprehension about being judged, uncertainty about content, anxiety regarding an accent or vocabulary. Comfort zone: this is your place, where you have learned to feel comfortable within. It reflects most qualities that do not make for a superior speaker.
