Stage Fear During Presentation

Most of the times in school and colleges, teacher ask the students to come up on the stage and share their views on a certain topic and it is quite common that students blush to come up and even begin to shiver while speaking. In this blog I am gonna share my story about it.

I have spent at least 18 years of my life in school, colleges and university and never even felt comfortable standing in front of fifty students. It is only because of the fact that I have never tried or even if tried, never overcame the fear that arouse while speaking publicly. I have presented many times but could not accomplish the targets that I set in my mind related to the presentation. Once upon a time, it happened with me that I was given a time of five minutes to speak and finish my target but I remember that I did not even speak for five minutes. I finished everything in almost three minutes and the teacher was a bit annoyed at me.

Turning Point:

Turning point to my fear is the course that I am undergoing these days i.e. Foster Learning. My teacher or facilitator in this course really appreciated me and encouraged me to come up which really gave me a hope that I can do it. Once I did it, there was appreciations all around which was really a big achievement for me because it was my first time that I was being chaired by other people while standing on stage.

In the beginning of my presentation, I found it very much tedious to bring myself in front of people and how to give expressions and how to involve people into my discussion but I think it becomes easier for you once you are up for it.

When I was presenting, I was feeling horrible that I don’t know what is gonna happen but when I kept on speaking and the audience was listening to me with great patience, that motivated me to speak more and more. I really enjoyed my first satisfactory presentation. I had tried my best to keep a good eye contact, to make audience feel like I am talking to them and they need to be attentive to me.

At the end of my presentation when my facilitator asked everyone to give feedback, I saw each and every body a bit satisfied with the presentation but teacher herself said that you should have smiled during presentation. This was the improvement point which I embraced happily and I will work on it in future and will present in a better way.

I think everyone should dare to come up on stage and try to be strong enough to speak up on stage and try his best to be as much normal as much he/she can so that his/her fear go away. It was like a hoax to me in the beginning but later on with the passage of time it became fun and I began to enjoy it.

I hope you will enjoy reading it and let me know about the improvement points in the comments below.

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