Nervous Butterflies in Your Stomach?

Jill Schiefelbein, author of Dynamic Communication: 27 Strategies to Grow, Lead, and Manage Your Business and writing for Entrepreneur, helps us overcome the nerves we get when speaking to large audiences. Check out my observations below.

Use systematic desensitization to make true eye contact with your audience—start by scanning the room slowly, then move to peoples’ foreheads before slowly making your way to their eyes
Your articulation will help you speak stronger, work on your enunciation and pronunciation to boost your confidence at speaking in front of large audiences
While fidgeting is not appropriate, don’t try and remain stock still, your gestures and movement can enhance your emotions as well as your message