Turn Stage Mishaps into Masterful Moments
The “unexpected” might not be so scary after all.?Learn why in this week’s Insights article by Russell Ewing .
You’re on stage, giving your performance as usual, when suddenly your worst nightmare starts to play out before your eyes…
A large man stands up from the back of the room and shouts something out to you.?
You have an embarrassing flub of your lines.
Your slides stop working and the tech guy looks at you with panic in his eyes.
The power goes out and the entire room goes pitch black.
These unexpected moments can happen during any performance, and for us speakers, just the thought of this happening to us makes us break out into a sweat.?
And this is completely normal—it’s only natural to experience some degree of anxiety around the fact that you simply can’t control everything that happens during your performance.?
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Dealing with unscripted moments on stage is one of the most important yet most overlooked topics in the public speaking world. And the typical advice out there doesn’t do much to calm your nerves.?
Most of the recommendations and suggestions you’ll find will tell you things you probably already know—stay calm, think quickly on your feet, be professional, adapt to the situation, and be positive.?
Those are great reminders, but they don’t actually explain?what?to do in those situations or?how?to deal with the unexpected. And they leave out the most important part—the audience.?
First things first, we need to reframe “the unexpected”
The fear and anxiety that we feel when thinking about these curtain-call calamities stems from one thing—the unexpected.?
The unexpected is the unknown, the uncontrollable, the unprecedented. It’s that aspect of performance that you absolutely cannot control, no matter how hard you try. This is what causes us anxiety.?
But it’s also the very element that makes live performance so compelling and so powerful.?And the truth is, the fact “the unexpected” exists and looms behind every performance is overwhelmingly?positive.?
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Transformative Keynote Speaker. I enable companies to shift from managing human resources to unlocking human potential by breaking free from conditioned thinking and challenging conventional wisdom.
9 个月Excellent insights from a true pro. It was amazing seeing Russell Ewing live in action this week at Heroic Grad.
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9 个月As a speaker, we are always in service of our audience no matter what. Amy Port - Thank You and the Heroic Public Speaking team for preparing us to handle these unexpected moments and to remember to handle them in a way that serves our audience.
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9 个月So helpful! Have a plan in your back pocket is key!
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9 个月I really hope none of these things happen to me, but I will now be more prepared if they do! Thanks!
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9 个月Without the audience, there is no speech. It's all about them. Come hell, high water, or heckler, being in the moment, in service of the audience, is our charge. Live it. Love it. Embrace it. Thank you for your continued support, Amy Port and the Heroic Public Speaking family.