How to Control Your Nerves When Presenting

How to control your nerves when presenting is a big deal when you have to stand up in front of an audience and speak. You might be presenting to a small group, in a team meeting, or giving a presentation on a stage. You worry your nerves during a presentation will make you freeze, make mistakes causing you to look silly. I share 4 brilliant actions for how to control your nerves during a presentation. Make giving a presentation fun not an ordeal. --- --- How to control nerves when presenting starts with are really powerful mental shift. Your physiological reactions to fear and nerves is exactly the same as your reactions to excitement. Your body doesn’t know the difference; therefore you can train your mind to think excitement rather than nerves. This is a brilliant mental shift that makes a huge difference to public speaking anxiety. Next when thinking about how to control nervousness when presenting focus on your audience and your message. You are communicating messages and ideas that will help your audience. This is serving your audience in the best way. When you are thinking about what might go wrong and the consequences of things going wrong, you are thinking about yourself. Keep yourself focused on your message and your audience and you lessen the pressure you put on yourself. Another great way for how to calm your nerves during a presentation.Next, for how to overcome nerves when presenting practice visualisation exercises. Picture yourself speaking to your audience, them looking at your and your presentation going brilliantly. Keep visualising success and presenting in the way you want to present. Do this again and again. When you come to the actual presentation, it is just one more visual experience. No big deal. Finally, for anyone that has a fear of public speaking, nearly all your performance is from your practice. Put in a lot of good quality practice and your presentation will go really well. Practice at least 8-10 times over a number of days. Keep practicing until you feel happy and confident. I share public speaking tips for how to practice really well. If you have any questions on “How to Control Your Nerves When Presenting”, please email me at [email protected] and I will get back to you.Jess ColesEnhance.training