You may have been asked to do a presentation and you are now panicking, or you may have just completed one and it didn’t go as well as you expected.

You are going to be on ‘show’, so you need this public speaking opportunity to be the best it can be, otherwise your career and reputation could be highly damaged. Therefore, you panic, you are nervous, anxious, in fact, terrified!

How do we know all this?

Because we’ve been there. We’ve been through it, ourselves. We have felt that anxiety. We have felt totally stressed out. We have been soaking in sweat just before going onto the stage.

Hi, I’m Andrew Rondeau and there I was over 25 years ago, on the surface, my career appeared perfect. I had just been promoted to Junior Manager, my income was much higher than the average, and the company I was working for was going places.

But the stress of Management was just too much, especially the dreaded fear of Public Speaking.

Because I couldn’t speak in public (I just dried up with fear), my reputation as a Manager was dreadful (some would say PANTS!).

This was not what I was expecting. No matter how hard I tried to remove the fear, I just did not make any progress. It was like swimming in treacle. In fact, the fear actually stopped me writing the speech as well. I was incompetent.

I knew there HAD to be a way, as other managers were making it look easy standing and presenting in front of large audiences, engaging with them, getting a few laughs, answering the arkward questions. And on top of all that, they delivered with no fear and no panic.

I was expecting to experience the same.

”How do they do it?” I thought

I couldn’t ask my boss, could I?

Can you imagine the fear and the shame of looking stupid?

The humiliation…it fills me with panic.

And what if my boss thought I wasn’t up to the job and I was demoted – I’d be back to where I started (and with less money!).

Then it just hit me…why don’t I just simply ask a co-worker for some advice.

But that didn’t work…

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