Positive Approaches to Presentations and Public Speaking:

• ‘knowing your stuff’: having confidence in what you are saying
  
  
• practicing and ‘doing’: it really does seem to become easier and less stressful with practice
  
  
• recognising that it takes time to get better at presentations
  
  
• go ‘into role’ - seeing it as acting on a stage
  
  
• making one-to-one contact with the audience, perhaps through eye contact or through naming members of the audience when using examples
  
  
• focusing on emotional engagement with the audience
  
  
• writing down what you want to say - even if you only have it as a backup
  
  
• visualisation before the event
  
  
• speaking clearly and more slowly than feels natural.