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TRANSCRIPT – HOW TO OVERCOME PRESENTATION NERVES

BEN – Change the focus of your presentation

If you want to get rid of presentation nerves, it’s difficult because everyone, everyone’s different and the reason for the nerves are varied.

One little trick, that we use with a lot of clients, and it seems to work, is about changing the focus of the presentation. For example, if you start using the word ‘you’ a lot in your presentation, ‘let me tell you, let me explain to you’, that changes the focus.

So, if you just do that, that one idea, using the word ‘you’ much more, that will help you become a much more confident presenter.

JANE – Nerves can be good, if you do your preparation

Crikey, how do you overcome presentation nerves? Well, I don’t know whether I should admit this, but I often have presentation nerves when I present and I’ve done quite a lot of presenting, one way or the other in my career.

Sometimes, I think nerves are quite good, what’s not good is when the nerves become uncontrollable. And again, you need to do the prep work. If you’ve done that, you won’t, you won’t be a quivering wreck, you’ll just get on with the job and as you go on, if you’ve got a strong opening suddenly, you’ll have that ‘Oh, I’ve got the audience’ and you suddenly relax. And you can really, actually, at the end of your talk think ‘Wow, I really enjoyed that’.

DAVID – Good preparation is the best antidote

Presentation nerves can be very debilitating. We’ve worked with a lot of people who in under very high stress situations… International live TV, massive investor presentations…

Preparation is the best antidote to nerves. If you know exactly what it is that you want to say, what your intent is, then the focus on that intent removes loads of the worry.

So, when we look at why people are nervous, generally, it’s because they’re not sure how things are going to go. Well, don’t let that be you, be sure how things are going to go, by doing the prep.

PAUL – Use relaxation techniques and practise

A lot of people say to us that they’re frightened of giving presentations. Well, we’ve got two things that can help with that. The first is, a series of practical techniques that will help you to relax, centre yourself and deliver your best presentation when you go on stage.

The second thing is you need to practice, and we can help you to do that too. So, it’s a combination of proven techniques and practising will give you the confidence that you’ve always wanted when you’re giving a public speech.

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