Fear of public speaking is known as Glossophobia and it’s estimated that 75% of people suffer from it! After being the MC at the International Women’s Day event, I got so much feedback about how people wished they could be as confident as me on stage, that I realised that people were really crying out for help so have been writing some articles and preparing materials to give you guys a boost.

There are lots of things to think about when you’re public speaking. The slides, the way you speak and stand, how you handle the microphone and more, but sometimes trying to get all these things right actually makes you more scared and perform even worse. So we believe that there’s one thing to remember to get you over the fear itself, which is that it’s only talking!

We have just produced a handy little public speaking infographic to give you the basic tips and on 5th May we will be running a 3 hour Public Speaking Masterclass where we will talk you through the key points and then get to practice in a safe environment so you can grow in confidence and iron out any issues before going out there and knocking them dead! Read our public speaking blogs, come along to the workshop and become a great public speaker!

On March 18th, we held a special charity networking event in Manilva which raised 230€ for The Duquesa St George Association and brought together almost 50 local business people for a great evening of networking. We were able to gather Spanish and International businesses and explain the concept of networking to the Spanish business community that hasn’t been familiar with it before. The event showed us that there was a demand from both men and women on the Western Costa del Sol for this kind of event and that the business community is a bit small to segregate meetings at this stage. Therefore we have decided that all future networking events will now be mixed events.

Our next meeting will be held on 15th April from 18.30 to 20.00 at the CIVIMA Wine Museum in Manilva Pueblo. As before the entry fee will be 5€ to cover the networking and refreshments and this time we will be running a structured networking activity in addition to the relaxed open networking. Hope to see you there!