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It’s helped me in the past to prepare flash cards with key things to remember to take into/practice before the presentation, maybe do the same to ease your nerves. You’ve got this!
You are the subject matter expert. You know things they don’t. They need you. They need your recommendations.
Imagine you are a tour guide at a museum and you are sharing your knowledge and pov to a group of tourists as you walk them through the museum’s collections — yes, they’ll have questions, yes, they can challenge you but, ultimately, they need handholding and explaining just as you would a bunch of clueless/uninterested tourists.
Looking at it this way has helped me in the past.
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Toastmasters.
Focus on the key takeaways and quite importantly, why that data point matters. What’s the learning or next step coming out of it. What’s the recommendation based on your data insights.
Don’t fixate on the nitty gritty, most clients don’t have the depth of data understanding you do, and that’s a sure fire way to lose them (glazed eyes, tuned out).
Instead approach it from the lens of what they need to know.
Good luck!
Rehearse, speak more slowly than you think you need to, pause for questions and remember that your role isn’t to read slides or whatever, it’s to provide context and your unique take on things. To put it another way, what can they gain from you presenting this info versus reading it themselves?
This, having talking points ready and rehearsing (preferably in a mirror) are huge. You can tell where you may trip yourself up and smooth things out.