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Symptom of nervousness to public speaking?

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Nervous public speakers exhibit any number of ticks and tells. While teaching public speaking, I isolated a number of common mistakes public speakers make. The examples below in quotations are names I have given the traits:

"Dancing Feet" - Shuffling feet
"The Great Flood" - Excessive sweating
"Water!" - When water is made available on the lectern, some will go after it like a man coming out of a desert after a week without.
"Bird Hands" - This is a matter of the speaker's hands fluttering around like a startled pigeon.
"The Jitters" - Marked by excessively shaking hands
Stuttering - A clear sign the speaker did not prepare
"Um-Uming"
"Read Me A Story" - The speaker reads directly from index cards, or a pages or pages.
"Death Grip" - Clenching the podium or lectern
"Flamingo Feet" - Standing on one foot with the other foot nested behind the knee of the supporting leg
"The Perfect Storm" - Rocking or swaying while maintaining a death grip on the podium or lectern.
"Puppet Hands" - Mindless hand gestures, almost appearing to be suspended from strings.
"Whiplash" - Favoring one side of the audience, head turned and locked.
No eye contact - looking at the audience, but never connecting.
"Locked Gaze" - Focusing excessively on one audience member - Staring
"What's Up There?" - Focusing on the ceiling (Like no eye contact but more of a Locked Gaze)
"What's Down There?" - Focusing on the floor (like no eye contact but more of a Locked Gaze).
Averting eyes - similar to no eye contact but constantly moving the gaze all over the room
"Nervous Feet" - Foot bouncing, tapping, jiggling
"The Big Shrug" - hands deep in pockets with shoulders in up and tight
"the Thinker" - an odd placement of hand on face to mimic Auguste Rodin's famous sculpture.
"The Long Walk" or "The Caged Tiger"- stalking back and forth in front of your audience, sometimes pounding out the points of the presentation with your steps
"The Moving Target" - similar to the Long Walk, but with much less predictable pacing, more erratic movement.

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