Turning up the master volume

A client was telling me about a communication training they’d attended at work, all about increasing confidence to have more impact, when speaking in front of others.

You see, while it might not look like it, we all feel nervous from time to time. It’s a universal experience.

And public speaking’s a sure-fire way to get the old SEC (Speaker Ego Construct 📦) fired up and churning out all sorts of thoughts and feelings, usually along the lines of:

But weirdly, this seems to affect some people more than others, so that’s what the training was about: what to do about those feelings. How to be a more effective communicator.

And there were two main techniques my client was recommended.