I want to talk about something that is very common to business people, including many CEOs and that is public speaking. Nervous energy gets to us all in different ways, but we need to overcome that in any way to deliver a strong presentation and great first impression.
The main problem I see is that most people wait until the last days before a presentation then begin to practice their presentation or pitch or worst, work on slides and then wait until the night before and try memorizing the slides the night before is due. The most obvious solution is practice.
1. When you practice, try to practice right away and don’t even wait for you to finish with the presentation you do this by practicing with each slide or point as you go, if you make changes is better because now you can deliver a same idea with different approaches and or seem more natural if questions do arise.
Practicing in segments really does help and is proven to be more effective than practicing entire presentations.
2. Make friends, get acquainted with the environment in which you are presenting or at least the hosts and or some of your guest listeners this will reduce the professional expectations a bit and will turn more into a business talk among friends.
3. Practice on visualization, people who can visualize the setting with those involved. Try to be very detailed with the image and picture yourself delivering a calm and clear message. This will help your game.
4. share the presentation with friends and get positive feedback and try to emphasize on the goodness of the message rather than what you think people will be thinking about you and your message.
5. Take deep breathes right before the presentation such as counting backwards from 10 with deep breathes between digits.
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