Stage Fright: How Your Body Reacts and What to Do about It

Speaking to an audience is, of course, a performance art, whether it's an actor performing live in a play or someone speaking at a conference or virtually. And just as is true of actors, what you bring to the "art" will help make the difference between mediocrity and excellence.

Consider further this connection between the theater and business: Actors speak from a script, just as you use notes or PowerPoint. In either case, the information alone that you deliver cannot achieve your goal all by itself.

For instance, a bare script will never convince an audience they're watching a real human being with real passions... and neither will your handouts. The key ingredient in the public speaking situation is the speaker in performance. Among many other factors, that means the uses and responses of your body.

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