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So for work today I had to give a formal presentation about the CA SiteMinder Web Access Manager product and how it is used within our Financial Company.  This was an internal presentation to another team of engineer’s who works within the same organization.  This was my second time presenting the same material, I am practicing for when I will deliver my presentation at CA World at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas coming up in November.

I have never done a public presentation before and I am quite nervous about the idea of standing in front of a crowd of sixty to over one hundred individuals on a stage.  I am good with presenting material on bridge lines, conference calls and over netmeeting and I don’t shy up about speaking when I am not physically standing in front of someone with all eyes on me.

My thoughts seem to blank and my tongue seems to trip over my words, I did fairly well during today’s presentation.  The presentation is one full hour in length and I kept it just about perfect timing, though if there are alot of questions in CA World, then I will have to shorten some of my slide information to accommodate for the time spent answering questions.

This is good though, I hope to have a very engaged audience.  I consider myself a CA SiteMinder Expert, I have worked with the product for the past four years almost exclusively and have the ability to recommend a solution for just about any type of business request or need.  I also have extensive knowledge of the web server technologies involved, so I am really confident in the material I am presenting.

I just need to get over the nervousness, I don’t want to have sleepless nights and stress pains the week prior.  I do suffer from anxiety about these things and have to figure out how to quelch it.

So, I implore my blogging audience.  Does anyone have any tips, tactics or tricks on how to present to a fair sized audience on stage?  Any recommendations for me?  I still have plenty of time to take all of your feedback into account and see if any of it will work.

-Dragon Blogger

  • Update

Archangel blog give some really good tips and advice for public speaking on his post, thanks Carlo.

Transparent Hypnotist mentions that self-hypnosis is a great tool for overcoming phobias’s and specifically public speaking.

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