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Build Your Confidence Presenting In English By Visualising Your Presentation. We all get nervous before giving a presentation, even experienced presenters.

How do you prepare yourself mentally and emotionally for an important presentation?

Build Your Confidence Presenting In English By Visualising Your Presentation

“I use a lot of my mental preparation to find a good way to start my presentation and practice it – a good confident opening. Once I get passed that point all is well. I just need to get started” – from a participant at our Presentation training.

And I agree visualising a good confident opening is one of the best ways to build your confidence in English.

Build Your Confidence In English By Visualising Your Presentation – Visualising Checklist

Visualization is an easy and powerful technique to help you prepare manage stressful situations and to maintain focus before important presentations. And it’s an easy technique to incorporate into your practice before your presentation.

When visualizing an important presentation, you want to get the visual picture in your mind to be as close to reality as possible. Think about each and every detail, so when you come to the real presentation, you feel more confident because you’ve already “been” there and it was a success. Build your confidence in English by visualising your presentation and use this simple checklist to help you.

Visualising checklist:

Try to visualise yourself and what you are doing in each step.

1. Venue – visualise yourself in the meeting room, auditorium, boardroom.
2. Standing and moving around – visualise yourself on stage, next to a laptop, behind a lecturn and standing and moving around confidently.
3. Presentation opening? – visualise yourself doing a good confident presentation opening – a question, rhetorical question, interesting facts, unusual image or object or a famous quote. And see the audience showing interest in their faces.
4. What body language can you use? – visualise your hand gestures, eye contact, moving around at differents points in the presentation.
5. Who is in your audience? – visualise the faces of any people you know will be there and see them smiling and looking interested.
6. Presentation Visuals – visualise how good your presentation visuals look and how well they help the audience understand specific key points.
7. Resilience and ability to overcome an unexpected problem – visualise yourself overcoming an unexpected problem like moving onto the next slide if a slide is in the wrong order. Or visualise yourself using another way to explain an important word you can´t remember because you go blank momentarily.
8. Presentation ending – visualise summarising and leaving the audience with a strong ‘takeaway’ – your key idea. And see their faces as they nod their heads, smile and you see they are happy with you presentation.

How do you prepare yourself mentally and emotionally for an important presentation? What steps do you use? Share below in then comments or email me them at info@englishtco.com or a chris@englishtco.com. Thanks!

I hope this helps you in your job and professional career, Christopher Wright!

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Recommendation – my top tip: How To Prepare a TED Talk in English

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