Diante de uma apresentação de cliente de alto risco, como você pode acalmar seus nervos?

Practicing your presentation multiple times, out loud, is crucial to building confidence and reducing anxiety & familiarity breeds confidence, rehearsing your presentation several times helps you become comfortable with the content, making it easier to recall and deliver. Reduces uncertainty by practicing out loud helps you anticipate and prepare for potential questions or challenges from the audience. Improves delivery by rehearsing your tone, pace, & body language helps you refine your presentation skills and engage your audience more effectively. Remember, practice is key! Don't just rehearse in your head; speak your presentation out loud, several times, to build confidence and deliver a successful presentation.

Very important to recognize, that a certain nervousness (or stress if you like) is not just normal for most people, but actually helpful to drive a high performance.

While thorough preparation is key to a successful presentation, deep understanding of the subject matter being presented cannot be overemphasized. Personally, when preparing for a high stake presentation, I ensure that I go over my slides multiple times, while making notes of possible questions the audience may have. I also try to structure the presentation in such a way as to paint a clear picture to my audience. Doing these, help one have a more relaxed mind before presenting

Preparing is key to presentation at any event, function, and activity. It is essential to know your stuff (you and the activity) as well as the content (what you hope to present to the audience). It's best to develop the content by yourself, which puts you in control of the event in any case questions arises based on the content of your presentation. It's also important to interact with the devices which you will be using in the final analysis. Check for mastery and any other technical difficulties that may arise in the course of presentation to avoid imbalances (like emotions) between yourself and your audience.

This is tricky. But reduce your expectations on the outcome and focus on the build-up which is where you engage the crowd and gain experience. Visualisation may sometimes eliminate the process, as such when the "process" is initiated, the vision becomes impared expecially when posed with questions fron a listener. Therefore, see yourself presenting and engaging with the audience. The bottom line is communicate effectively with your listeners.

In case of nerve racking incidents, do what you must to maintain composure. Remain calm and take a moment to breathe, it actually helps to regain confidence. However, work at your own pace. Steady yourself at all times.

Feel comfortable with yourself. Your language, vocabulary, crowd engagement, dress and dressing, awareness and anticipation etc will guide and boost your confidence level. Remember to be comfortable; that is where the power play is.

Depending on my relationship with the audience and the nature of the presentation subject, engaging the audience is one strategy that has worked really well for me. One way I do this is to start by outlining the expectations of my presentation. I also give a brief background to the presentation before I continue with the content of my presentation. This way I am able to capture and hold the attention of the audience.

I think sometimes the more "very professional/very diplomatic" we would like to be, because we think we need to come up with somthing extraordinary, the more we may allienate the Client. Of course we should be polite, we should be professionally sound, but at the same time natural and genuine.

The whole presentation is about the listening audience. Audio checks, confidence, technology, making eye contact, jokes, explanations, questions and rhetorical questions should make the crowd feel alive. However, more emphasis should be placed on conveying the principal topic of discussion with the original content and intent, while anticipating gestures from the audience.

Back in my childhood, when I went to compete in a folksong singing competition I received a good advice from my mother regarding nervousness on the podium. She kindly told me - and she didn't mean to be disrespectful for the audience/jury at all! - that I should imagine, that I was just singing not for faces starring at me, but for "cabbages". This can translate for presenting to high-stake clients: of course, we should deliver our best, of course we should be professional, but the end of the day, client representativs are also just human beings like us.