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The main thing is to learn to relax. Even the most confident person in the world will have problems the first few times that they speak in public. You must practice speaking in order to get it right. I suggest you start with a very small audience. Use one or two people who will give you an honest assessment of where you are. You should then videotape your session so that you can observe your own bad habits first hand. This is the thing which helped me the most. The way that I thought I sounded was totally different from what I saw when we played the tape. I am so glad that we did this because it let me see me for what I really was. I have corrected most of the bad habits that I saw and I am a much better speaker now. I highly recommend that you do this before you speak for the first time.

You will always have a degree of nervousness when you speak to a larger audience than what you are used to but nervousness is actually a benefit. When I am nervous I am careful not to make obvious blunders.  Read more... (698 words, estimated 2:48 mins reading time)