6. Realize they want you to succeed. They are on your side and want you to be interesting, stimulating, informative, and entertaining. No one wants or wishes you to fail.
7. Don’t apologize. If you mention your nervousness or apologize for any problems you think you have with your speech, you may be calling the audience’s attention to something they hadn’t noticed. Keep silent.
8. Focus on your Speech - not on you. Focus your attention away from your own anxieties, and outwardly toward your message and your audience. Your nervousness will dissipate.
9. Convert your nervousness into enthusiasm energy. Convert your nervous energy and re channel it into passion and excitement.
10. Get experience. Experience will foster your confidence. Confidence is essential to effective public speaking. Start with small intimate groups and select material you have a strong knowledge in.
There! Make them rise in applause next time you make a speech! Break a leg! :)
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good tips…im always really nervous talking infront of groups of people. one tip is to either look and pretend to talk to someone as if u know them (even better if u do know them) and look towards the back of the room so it doesnt look as if ur hiding youself or not looking at them.
i always blush aswell in these situations…if you know your doing a presentation or speech…slap on the make-up haha