Stay calm and confident during your presentation

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By the time you get to centre of the stage, start by looking at your surroundings and greet some members of the audience to ensure that you are in a comfortable position. Once you settle down, start your presentation by delivering an introduction that you memorized in order to make yourself well prepared and it will also allow you to get a great control over the whole presentation. Each of us experiences different degree of nervousness whether shaking, stuttering, faster heartbeat or even headache could be a cause of nervousness as an individual gets so fed up when dealing with all of their anxiety while presenting on stage. Sometimes the size of the audience can be intimidating but it is important that you maintain eye contact with them in order to deliver a more persuasive speech.

Avoid talking too fast as it would only make you look nervous even more causing the organization of details to overlap. This would also make it difficult for the audience to understand your ideas making it seems like you are uncertain about what you are saying. It is important to pay attention with your vocabulary, avoid saying things like uhm, I think or they say as they can affect the purpose of your presentation and lessen the credibility of your information. If you are fidgeting, do not remain in one spot or put your hands in your pocket, but instead try to move around and perhaps interpret your visual aids for the audience. It is also common for most of us to come up with new ideas while presenting, but there is a right time to share this with the audience because they can potentially ruin the organization of information if you fail to back it up properly.