Topic: My Embarrassing First Bitcoin Lecture Attempt with my Colleagues - page 2. (Read 261 times)

I’m always on this shitty situation during my school days when we are assigned to report a lecture into the class. It’s very hard to overcome it unless you are very confident to your lecturing skills.

I usually just use copy paper and read it often while lecturing. I avoid I contact while I’m speaking and makes my presentation complete and easy to understand so that I will have less talk directly to the people since the presentation speak for itself. I suggest that you should express yourself on your presentation material as if it is the one talks for you so that you will have less interaction as much as possible during your lecture.

Although anyone can make mistakes, as many people have mentioned, I will interpret your actions as showing a lack of confidence in yourself. When we are confident, I think that everything is simpler to accomplish, especially when it comes to public speaking. In order to avoid becoming persuaded whenever there is a distraction, I would encourage you to practice regularly on whatever you are preparing to give that day and attempt to grasp it properly rather than merely cramming. I believe sometimes confidence attractive people attention because everyone will like to pay full attention to whatever you want to say due to your confidence action

I believe many other will like to ask questions,In order to quickly have questions answered, try coming up with some questions yourself for each section you chose to discuss. This might also help your presentation, in my opinion.

This is not about bitcoin, nor about your colleague's lack of enthusiasm. It's more about the fear of speaking to a larger public.

Some get over that easier, some harder and I don't have a good advice for it. Maybe just break the ice and try to present something (even something else) to a bigger public, to try to get over the natural fear of being not listened or even being mocked in public.

From what I know, one basic rule to start without really looking at them. Focus on your thoughts, not their faces. After the topic gets some traction and you have a clear idea what to tell next, you can move on to their faces too if you want to, but don't have too high expectations.

As with many other things in life, practice makes perfect! Practice your material as often as you can. The more familiar you are with it, the more confident you will feel when presenting it. Everyone makes mistakes; it's no big deal. It's important to recognize that feeling nervous before a presentation can be normal and even helpful. Don't let one small error throw you off. Try to focus on the big picture and tell yourself that it's okay to make mistakes. And even if you do experience some stage fright, remind yourself that it's normal and that you have the skills and knowledge to deliver a successful presentation.

You've make a nice attempt and it may looks ugly on the first approach but it's a challenge to never give up and strike harder the nexttime, there's always an opportunity for a second chance which I believe you've got, i never expected them (your colleagues) to investment or show a positive response on the first day because they will need time to renumerate about it and also consult people and the internet in making a research about bitcoin for those just coming across bitcoin for their first time, also just as been said by you, one has to study the present emotions of the intended audience and considers some factors that could aid or depressed the learning ground and deal with it in other not to serve a barrier just as you've experienced.

Stage fright is normal, many people experience it. It shows that you care because you are worried how it will go. So, don't run away from it, embrace it and learn how to control it. Be interesting and fun, and don't speak in a monotonous and boring voice. You can practice your speech at home in front of friends and family. That way you will gain some experience in standing in front of a crowd of people. See how they will react. Ask them for some feedback and what they thought about it when you are done. Ask them if you should change something in the way your present your ideas, if the speech should be shorter, longer, if they understood the points you were trying to make, etc.   

Bad things happens every time, even a perfect speaker make mistakes what you should have done is this:
Break the ice, instead of blasting them with your lecture or information about bitcoin, you should get their attention first, what do I mean by that? calm them by making them laugh throw a joke first, to make them smile, most speaker I see does this all the time why? to get the audience interested, since they were tired or too focus on the last speaker.
You should also learn to adjust on the situation, by now you know what to do next time, experience is also a good teacher.

I don't think you really need any tips besides that you making sure to be prepared. like 90% of what happened wasn't under your control and was just unfortunate events in the first place.

I just hope you focus on the tech/economic side of things rather than bitcoin being an investment.

So two days ago I had my first proposed bitcoin lecture to my colleagues at work. Prior to this time I had written and gotten approval to have a 30-minute session on bitcoin during our biweekly meeting. I was excited and pumped up knowing that this is the moment I've been waiting for. I already have a fair knowledge about Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies and I thought it would be easy to transmit that knowledge so my colleagues. How hard could it be, this are my colleagues I see everyday.

However , just like Murphy's law anything that can go wrong will go wrong. The first thing that went wrong was instead of the 30 minutes for the talk my supervisor said it would be 15 minutes. Second, the air conditioning system decided to break down on that day, everywhere was so hot and you could see that my colleagues were visibly uncomfortable. Third since I was going to be the last speaker they had already had a heated argument about something that went on in the office the previous week. It was crazy.

When I was giving the floor to speak, I literally froze because the look on their faces was not one of enthusiasm but one of let's just get it done with. I forgot my presentation. I was stuttering. Sweating profusely. Everywhere was so hot that my colleagues were grumbling. My supervisor reading the room understood, dismissed the meeting. He gave me another chance to talk to them about Bitcoin in the next biweekly meeting.

I know by then the AC would have been fixed but I want to ask members of this forum how do I overcome stage fright in my next meeting? This right now is my biggest worry and concern. I do not want to mess this up again. Please share some tips with me, Thank you.