AVOIDING PRESENTATION FRIGHT AND COMMON PITFALLSTwenty Strategies for Reducing Stage Fright1. Remind yourself that your listeners want you to do well.2. Believe that you know more about your subject than your audience does.3. Familiarize yourself with the physical settin of your presentation before youdeliver it.!. "et to know some members of your audience before you speak.#. $hoose a presentation topic you know somethin about.%. &repare thorouhly for delivery of your presentation.'. (nticipate )uestions listeners miht ask.*. +emorize the first and last sections of your presentation.,. Focus on your audience- not yourself.1.. /o not practice in front of a mirror.11. 0ever tell the audience you are nervous.12. 1iew physical symptoms as positive e2citement- not neative enery.13. 3alk positively about your presentation to yourself.1!. 3urn your nervous enery into somethin positive.1#. (bandon riid rules about public speakin.1%. 3ell yourself it is okay to make chanes and adapt your delivery durin yourpresentation.1'. Remind yourself that if thins do not o well- it is not the end of the world.1*. Remember that even very nervous speakers usually appear calm to theiraudience.1,. Believe compliments on your delivery.2.. (nticipate problems and devise solutions ahead of time.Avoiding Common Presentation Pitfas4nstead of5 5 3ry this 4nstead6umpin into facts and fiures at thebeinnin of your delivery"rab listeners7 attention by briefly describin the problem athand in vivid- compellin terms or offerin a rippinanecdote8eavin it up to your audience to fiureout where your presentation is oin&rovide a 9road map: ; for e2ample- a 9table of contents:slide that shows a brief list of the sections of your talkRelyin only on your voice to conveyyour messaensure that each visual only contains one small point orpiece of informationBlockin your visuals or talkin to them ?tand to the side so people can see the slides and lanceonly briefly at each slide before turnin to address youraudience