I had a bit of a shock today. I received a call from my boss notifying my that at an upcoming conference I would be expected
to do a full day of training for fellow employees. Let me be clear.
I'm expected to stand up in front of numerous people and talk to them. For an entire day.
I don't know if I've ever mentioned this before but I'm an introvert.
Extremely introverted in fact. I have a really difficult time with
large groups of people. I don't even like parties. To put it bluntly, this news
terrified me. When I get nervous and have to speak in front of people my speech tends to speed up. To somewhere around the speed of light. To make matters even worse I'm a fainter. Seriously. My first job out of
college I was very stressed about what would be expected of me. I could
barely sleep or eat and when I got to the office the air conditioning had quit. A couple hours into the day my new boss came to check up on me. I stood up to greet him
and tell him how the work was progressing and instead collapsed in a
heap at his feet.
So after receiving this panic inducing call I decided to take myself for a
long long lunch hour walk. I was walking along
lost in my own world when I looked up and saw a very pretty dog sitting in someone's driveway. He was so still I wasn't sure he was alive at first. A statue perhaps but then an ear twitched and suddenly I forgot all about that conference.
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What a pretty dog sitting in that driveway!
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| I wonder who left him outside? |
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| That's no dog! |
Perhaps I'll insert a couple photos of this guy into my index cards
when I'm doing the lecture. Remind me to breath a little and forget
about my stress level.
p.s. in all seriousness, I know some of my readers are teachers and
spend their days in front of a class. Are there any tips you would
recommend to someone who is doing a training session for the first
time?
