After all, your passion for your subject has been forged in the university of life…!
You’ve written out your presentation long hand.
You’ve put together your slides and your bullet points.
You are as prepared as you can be.
And yet your hands are sweating, your heart is pumping and your mouth is as dry as a bone…!
As you begin presenting you instantly feel like you could be doing better.
You try to read the expressions on the faces of the audience, but they are dead pan and not giving much away.
Five bullet points in, you realise you’ve been looking away from the audience and talking to the screen for the last three minutes!
You desperately try to ad lib and elaborate on each bullet, but you end up just saying what you’ve already said and just labouring the point.
You feel you are losing the audience.
In fact some of them look like they are losing the will to live!
You’re nervousness kicks into overdrive and you are now speaking at a hundred miles an hour, which only leads to tripping over your words.
Ten minutes in and now you’re umming, erring and saying the word ‘basically’ every other sentence.