Top 10 Strategies to reduce nervousness
- Posted by admin
- 23 November 2010
- Presentation Skills
So your having trouble sitting or standing still. Perhaps your palms are becoming sweaty and you don't feel so great. It's ok, your just feeling nervous. Business to Business has prepared the top 10 strategies you can use to reduce this feeling that arises just before or during an event.
Below are the Business to Business Top 10 Strategies That Reduce Nervousness
- Develop a proper attitude toward your physiological reaction - "I'm Keyed Up."
- Remember that your audience will consistently underestimate your fear - They want you to do well.
- Speak as often as you can to gain confidence - Where for you?
- Research, write and edit your presentation carefully - Good talks aren't written, they're rewritten, rewritten, and rewritten.
- Practice, practice, practice!
- Tape record your presentation and play it back - cassette, voicemail, video, answering machine.
- Concentrate on your audience "getting it", not on your fear.
- Avoid coffee, tea, beer, and Jack Daniels before you speak - They are all dehydrants.
- Breath in and out in a slow, deliberate fashion - Increases your oxygen intake. Relieves stress. Inhale for 6 counts - Hold for 6 counts - Exhale for 6 counts.
- Use stretching actions to release tension - Improves, increases your natural gestures.
