Public Speaking
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- twokids0
The best speakers are the ones who talk naturally about material they obviously know a lot about. They just talk as if they are talking to you directly from their head. When presentations are overly staged they are not as effective.
So:
1) Know your material really well. Prepare five times as much as you need, and when you deliver the actual presentation, you can just talk, and not worry about covering everything exactly. Use slides as guidelines, not reading material. Nothing is worse than someone reading bullet points to an audience. I am assuming you are being asked to speak because of something you know about(design?) so that should not be too hard for you.
2) Forget that there is a group. You know more than they do. Imagine talking directly to someone, which I assume you can do about something you know about and are passionate about. Look at someone in the audience (maybe someone you know?) and speak directly to them to get yourself started that way.
3) You will be nervous. So what? If you do #1 and #2 you will be fine.
DO NOT videotape yourself. That will make you self conscious.