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2004 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Conference stress
Published in: Management and Myths
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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For organisers and speakers, both the in-house and the public conference can be a source of considerable stress. Indeed, surveys show that the most common phobia is public speaking, which may affect up to a fifth of the population. Yet the need to give speeches to big and small, known and unknown, friendly and hostile audiences grows as a requirement with promotion to senior management.