You’re about to deliver your presentation to the board and you thought you were doing fine. Great, even. But then you notice that your hands are shaking, your knees feel weak, your back is sweaty and your mouth has gone dry. Ah, performance anxiety! However it feels for you, it can hold you back in your career and prevent you from achieving the success you deserve. So on this episode of the Oh For Food’s Sake podcast, we’re giving you the tools and techniques you need to nip your nerves in the bud.
You’re about to deliver your presentation to the board and you thought you were doing fine. Great, even. But then you notice that your hands are shaking, your knees feel weak, your back is sweaty and your mouth has gone dry. Ah, performance anxiety! However it feels for you, it can hold you back in your career and prevent you from achieving the success you deserve. So on this episode of the Oh For Food’s Sake podcast, we’re giving you the tools and techniques you need to nip your nerves in the bud.
We discuss what performance anxiety is and how it might show up in your workplace. Then we go through the techniques that we use to recognise and reduce our own performance anxiety, from working on our mind-body connection to visualising our way through stressful situations. Stick around until the end of the episode to hear some exciting news about the ‘Invisible to Influential’ course that’ll help you to show up better in your career!
If you’d like individual support to work on your performance anxiety, don’t hesitate to reach out to us and find out how we can help you. We always love to hear from you!
Timestamps
[1:34] Hello! Join us for our discussion on overcoming performance anxiety
[3:34] So, what is performance anxiety?
[5:18] How performance anxiety might show up in your workplace
[7:55] Our fear of being judged
[9:15] The fight/flight/freeze mechanism and our mind-body connection
[11:50] Yes, we do all feel like this!
[15:19] So, what can we do about performance anxiety?
[21:12] Visualise to realise
[23:38] A grounding technique for instant stress relief
[27:30] Exciting news about the ‘Invisible to Influential’ course!
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