What is your ‘fear factor’?

What scares you most?

Ghost? Horror movie? Height? Flying? Dark?

I once had a junior high friend, a huge posture boy like a wrestler, or you may imagine him like Giant (Jaien) in Doraemon comic, such a naughty boy that everyone try to avoid, but then after knowing what he really scares in his life, we couldn’t help laughed loud. Do you know what he really fears of? A small house lizard (cicak)! That small cute creature could easily cause a naughty boy like him run helter-skelter…

I also have a friend, a handsome boy and always first ranking student in the school, but really fears of snake.

Public Speaking

My ex co-worker, a beautiful smart girl, will always scream and run every time she meet a clown.

We all have our own fear.

Have you ever heard three things that people fear most? The first is dead, second is flying (on airplane), and guess what?! The third is, speaking in front of the audience!

Why? Why people scared to speak in front of the public? Is there a big possibility that you will be die when you speak in front of the public, like the risk that you take when you’re flying with a plane?

Off course not. You’re not going to be die when speak on public. Then why people scared?

Actually, speaking in front of the audience is not as scary as we think. The biggest reason why people can’t stand the audience is caused by the lack of confidence.

Realizing that as a multinational company employee, we suppose to have ability to present ourselves in public, PT Fuji Staff Indonesia held a seminar with the theme: Public Speaking, on October 17, 2009.

This seminar purpose is to understand the basics of presentation skills, and how to present your ideas and visions so you can influence other to apply and implement them.

From the seminar, some tips that helps you to be a good public speaker is as follows:

• The most fundamental rule for successful persuasion is to start where the audience are, not where you are
• Organizing what you say and knowing your audience well
• Practice your presentation in front of someone you trust before you present in front of the real audience
• Do physically preparation, such as how you dress, how you look, how you sound, and how you move

We hope with this seminar, the participants will be able to remove the fear of public speaking from their own fear factor lists.

Good luck!