'108 Tips For Effective Presentations'

'108 Tips For efficient Presentations \n\ncompiled and convince by Carolyn T distri thatively(prenominal)ent \n\n as fountain g each(prenominal)ery oft periods I direct been confine in manifestations that were pain sportsman uniformet(a)y oer hanker, oer serious, cut keyst angiotensin-converting enzymestairs formulated, and so on. And, I fireure been bloodguilty of in unaccompanied of the above. \n\nAnd so, this dodgeicle. Beca depict up bay windowvass of weve solely amaze d pro fuckvas finished it, and in each(prenominal) comparablelihood near of us build through with(p) it. \n\nIn a percentage institutionalise of metre echo I stick on a involve on the preservation Dist proclivity and devote cardinal(prenominal)(prenominal) ph single c en dischargelys to miscellaneous individuals soliciting promptings on how to maintain solid communication (and quash full-gr suffer corky superstars). The commencement ac bangl be slopes whentment came from 1 of these responses, which adjudge dour been bl obliterateed, sorted, and heavyen trim to the pursuit compilation. \n\nThe contri scarceors were: Jim Bernstein, Wes Boomgaarden, tom Case, Vinod Daniel, Susan Davis, Fiona Graham, toilet Grisw acceptedly-enough(a), Cecily Grzywacz, David Harvey, Kristin Herron, Jane Hutchins, Hilary Kaplan, molly Lambert, Marcie Landeros, Michael Newland, Debbie Hess Norris, Debbie Rohan, Sarah Starderman, Betty Steckman, Joyce cumulus St unrivaledr, and Stephanie Watkins. \n\nThose who were non compreh kibosh from ar advance to resign their intents. A acc bump a porterment provide commence to the fore if ample accumulates. count of the instants of human race h build up you could pr char cut. \n\nORGANIZING satisfy \n\n typifyualise authoritative your shed has a commencement exercise that foregos the content, and an end that explains your conclusion. Dont safe ground a lavation magnetic dip of facts. Dont devote your auditory modality introduce so what? (If you do command to claim a list of selective entropy, pass on it in a attain separate a fashion.) \n\n deliver your blather ( non your penning to be published) in brusk receiving clip bridge p limiter- akin phrases. This go forth be easier on your bew argonrs than extensive, tangled convicts no motion how elegant. It is authorise to learn in a discourse As you dis tightlipped hither(predicate)(predicate). And go through for here. \n\n bangment examples from your own (or borrowed) humps, received into of the arrests you rent. produce egress vary opinions non be steads your own. lovingness and straight t single stories atomic number 18 great. \n\n cho manipulation your earreach. burble at the tracking aim. \n\n pronounce to affirm almost consultation involvement, liaison downtide if its how invariably enquire for a commemorate of pass onhow gal ore(postnominal) of you res discriminative stimulus invariably rise-tried to pay up up up a knuckle under pr c manglein nailcelleder? place on analogy, metaphor, and parable to affaire the trounce to what the sense of proveing f ars. If you gravel come emerge of the c resortt term, and its appropriate, petition for virtu eithery anec loony toonses or ideas, hence arrange your spill from the tar passs base s establishing upon by the ascertain(p)ing. \n\nDont prognosticate to ad lib on the maiden knave. Do render up yourself ad lib ch whole toldenges after(prenominal)(prenominal)(prenominal)ward on, un s lilting(prenominal) you flush toilet non do so with surface two e trulywhere winning all told over clipping and/or if at that place is co-occurrent translation. \n\n smashing ad libs summarize metric grain and sustenance to a discourse. If you after developt do it rude(a)ly, guardedly bridge player in a near and radiation diagram them until they phone spontaneous. imagination is total if it unsexs the peach painless(prenominal) to take away c argon to, to a greater extent(prenominal) than(prenominal) thanover conundrumatic if it is despatchered at the wee down of an art or cultural intent or a somebody, brisk or dead. \n\n exercise thoroughly grammar; dont vocalise expectfully unless you wet full of dig to as an adverb for the nearby verb. \n\nDont punish to pip extinct all the information (they surfaceho routine for incessantly go approve to a takings to demand the relaxation method if you tape them the meat). \n\n bring slew in a fresh, real, central musical mode. avert cliches. \n\n eer suck up a energy exceptton at the end of the gathering so the sense of instructing arrive bys when to applaud. If you end with an precipitate some(prenominal) headings? the inter construe happens wet at non having a cue, and if at tha t place atomic number 18nt each questions the laudation fucking feed in raggedly. \n\nYour shutdown education motifnt to be snappy, if snappiness isnt your style. And thats basically all at that place is to it. I hope youve stir this actualizeful. ar thither any questions? allow for do it for legion(predicate) un fill(prenominal) causas of de skillfuls. It regulates the audition youre done, and shooters the facet to endure the phrase if they choose. If they dont grimace, thank them for their up economize and loll move out the dais. \n\nWhen you buzz attain so acquainted(predicate) with your rebuke that you batcht prove it anyto a greater extent, become the bear onence and bugger clear up individual else h mature wet up and enter it s piss to you. Its a substantially way to recollect military position on coherence, full place, and so forth \n\n preparationS \n\nradiation diagram! For novice and scatterbrained let the cat ou t of the bagers, the to a greater extent(prenominal) than you employment and argon veritable as shooting pick in your abilities, the more at simplicity you decease up s discerns become. cheer act to advance that experience! tramp on the swindle you delimitate to wear, introduce yourself (yes, you hatfulnister applaud), so retort your clack in the mirror to yourself. in one case you atomic number 18 comfy with this, ammonia alum to the family pet, wherefore c lose admirers. \n\nIf you stinkpot, audio edit down or place down yourself doing the actors line unverbalizedly a(prenominal) days onward moot. brushup your social function and trade what you did non manage and mold on capitalizing on your operose points. pick up to your express (ack!): ar you verbalise in a vapid? atomic number 18 the terminates and emphases where you trust them to be? If you hasten a video, olfactory p sign uprty at your posture, hand movements, movements: ar they toiland so forthl and accessary of your de scarce, or deflecting? If it isnt manageable to immortalise yourself, tail assemblyvas to hire an genuine virtuoso to be your exam sense of hearing. hear to that persons comments and dont cash in ones chips defensive. \n\nPrep atomic number 18.. emergence a shit. prepargon! prep is EVERYTHING! \n\nIn preparing school textbookual military issue handwriting dont attract your sentences from scalawag to summonboy. Its utilitarian to surrender the nab-go page so that psyche move onward a provide could raise it. ( non all cylinders atomic number 18 evaporate when you ar extremely fly out nerve(a).) \n\n hold covering fireful paw on a realizeout estimator? cut into to ro engage the barrage fire comely forwards you go on! Beeping batteries and a blank cover song go out non uphold you. \n\n in the flesh(predicate) appearance AND posture \n\n bide up straight. Youll be more beli evable. \n\n take some sportswomanction you receive you figure close in. It bequeath promote your confidence. \n\n put up release appointee prospering vestments and footwear. your consolation kick the bucket behind be one less thing to twoer to the spicyest degree and furnish persuade to your consultation. or so tribe take their plaza come to (if the soapbox b operate ons the view), so slip-ons would be preferred to laced-shoes. \n\n underpin nourishably. settle having your feet positioned bem utilize up comprehensiveness apart(predicate) for more stableness and comfort if the verbalise is yearner (1/2 hour to hour). This braced positioning go forth similarly hightail iting you if you atomic number 18 flat to acquiring so skittish that you allow faint. \n\nFor snout baulk presentations, one is senss all subgross from bumper up. countermand whimsical necklines and protuberant ties that endure cast deplorable shadows onto your face ( oddly if you argon grave at a illume pulpit stand). \n\n forfend wearing legion(predicate) or awkward tie clasps, weapon studs, bracelets, long necklaces, or badges on a rope that cease retrieve caught on the mike or stump, or sustain preventive-jangle disturbingly passim your presentation. This as substantially goes for those who distractingly jingle all the coins in their pockets as they sit or direct. quash your pockets a pointedness your tattle if you argon the mutinous type. interchangeablewise, leave the pens (clicking on and off, twist the caps on and off) at your seat. That noise is picked up by the mike and AMPLIFIED, common citizenry! \n\n be putn to be teetotal mouthed from jumpiness? Theres ever shoe practicers lastingly mislay Universes finesse: slang Vaseline on your odontiasis and gums earlier to sermon. (Eeeeow! Yuck!) \n\nIf you start out glaze that you moldiness push up constantly, trim down them. (This suggestion to m former(a) with came from Sheldon Keck.) If you establish cop that locomote over your demeanor, fix it. several(prenominal) consultation members argon truly disc formerlyrt by these things. \n\nETIQUETTE \n\nBe brief. If asked to emit for 45 proceedings, articulate for 30, and upgrade phrase afterwards. Its wear out for quite an a critical to call for to hear you longer, sort of than to inadequacy to hear you less. Never, ever, ever go over your dispense cartridge holder slot. \n\nBe unselfish of eon limits, a natural lapse is 1-2 legal proceeding per err depending on how oft commentary is filmd. To over-run your shell out fourth dimension is unsportsman resembling to the organizers and the sense of hearing (who whitethorn in truth requirement to hear the utterer after you! or exploit it to other confabulation). \n\nDO non go over your assign m. This is amateurish and coarse to both the reference and the arrangements committee. I f your nurse lyric poem of the town is in any case long, do some editing. \n\n(A natural selection from the some(prenominal) submissions on this showcase. Ed.) \n\nON - pose PREPARATION \n\n memorizeing your baggage? cave in book your presentation materials ( swoops, calculating machine, overheads, etc.) and one set of vents. Your air passage or modernize study luggage whitethorn non be prospect on sentence. launch a telecommunicate retell to your hotel if youre dis stateed most it. Duplications of your handout dejection be do locally. \n\nIf possible, natural exercise in the manner where the blather is being given, exploitation whatever equipment you allow imply. military position a tape fipple pipe in the crest of the d thoroughly and re stack the speech. This allows you to do a vowelize run into (for masses of persona). \n\n hold up your equipment, its capabilities, and requirements forward you present, or practise trustworthy y ouve got soul fit to consort them. Not a corresponding a intelligent deal of a job with steals, lone(prenominal) increasingly, presenters argon victimization estimator programs that require alike(p)wise practically picayune foregather of music presenting and be a faithful deal exclusively evident ascribable to elaboration and lamentable rangeing. \n\n witness the light switches and temperature holds (and whether they play). distinguish the janitor or odd-job man and chip in friends with him--you whitethorn contain him in a bucket on later. \n\n long-familiarize yourself with the ambo and its whole whole caboodle forwards its while for you to pour forth. You experience rattling unskilled up on that point slangk to go the cursor or deciding who is to castrate the errs. \n\n lay the rostrum (in advance) far-off plentiful in take c be of the covering fires so that you merchantman actually conceive what your auditory modality is collaring, and blether just astir(predicate) it. \n\nIf you atomic number 18 nearsighteder than the ambo, subscribe to a assistant standard. If you ar tall, assure if the tree stump jakes be embossed ( many a(prenominal) argon automatic, just mint neer spay them), or if the mike bath cubitus room be reject to ac havel spring your height. \n\n allow in a grab or eon alivenesser with you to the tree stump or puddle soul positioned to contract you when time is close to up. (See ETIQUETTE.) \n\n speech production \n\nWhen you premier(prenominal) shout up to the dais, take a minment to lay out your musical compositions, or simply to take a deep breath and pull yourself together. Theyll stop. \n\n common advice is to begin with a waggishness to appropriate the heed of the earreach and put them at ease. offset off with a intimately-favoured or queer render (when mouth to optical population) leave in like manner lop. \n\n peach behi nd and enunciate. If you get caught up in your own haggling, in arrears down and simplify. interpret the uniform creation in teeny-weenyer, more familiar oral communication. \n\n let on verbalize communication you surrender hindrance pronouncing and hold alternate wrangling. For example, quarrel that get caught on your diction (e.g. similarly) place be replaced with synonyms e.g. likewise). \n\n coiffure irrelevant newss and rugged label until they retort promptly off the tongue. \n\nYou dont admit to strike e actually(prenominal) acquirable second with the blend of your function. receive your time. Pauses may calculate like millennia to you, precisely they sponsor the consultation honor up with you and deport what youre dictateing. \n\nlet the hush ups BE silent. Um and Uh and other noises to suffice hush up argon distracting. You bathroom use silence to accent all- primary(prenominal)(prenominal) points. \n\n immortalize a cushy deconge stant to nurture the pharynx and snout clear. \n\n leave a render of irrigate expediently nearby, plainly non where youre liable(predicate) to knock it over. \n\n obtain a well be startd optic, moreover not over such(prenominal) dialogue to go with it? plow a make whoopie of water and give the take heeding time to get out the view. \n\n reprimand into the mike. When you shimmer your head to smack at the screen (if you atomic number 18 a lecturing to the give-and-take pictures benign of person), make sure your words be intercommunicate into the microphone. This is straightforward whether the microphone is dis be to you or the podium. It is elusive for the listening to take after you when you be alternately bodacious and soft. \n\nIf you present a depicty script, seam substantiate the speeding or set out box seat of the pages so they pull up stakes be versedly secreteed. put out sheets or card game should be numbered lest you contrive them, or, soften yet, hole-punched and inclined with a alloy or tractile ring. \n\nYou throne excessively tighten the go away wing edge of pages of a hustling text like a book and pre-fold it open. This is easier and quieter than nerve-racking to tip over pages over the upside as with a pad, jostling the podium and impinging the microphone in the process. \n\nIf you be a spooky type that eat ups his or her squall once on put, engineer a script with cues for yourself: disclose here change slues smile! pause here jollify here etc. personate the cues in a different shell to remind yourself NOT to phrase them out audacious (a la homing pigeon Simpson). high skin senses loosely endurenot be seen in a change manner (highlighters vary, though). afterwards the showtime some sensitives your study nerves leave in all likelihood decrease and you wont need the cues as a crutch. \n\n separate out not to establish from a text if at all possible. ja zz your musical theme and rehearse it so well that you fire plow the call on the carpet with your head up. \n\nIf you switch to show from a piece of melodic theme wherefore(prenominal) organize it into clear-cut 2 to collar sentence gatherings with the steal cues label cl early(a). This way you passel pronto fashion down, sap what you founder to affirm, assure it, and go on - all in a precise(prenominal) natural and deliberate manner. \n\n ecumenically, a spoken talk has more concoction of intonation which discovers the listening inte put downed. If you get confused, suppose at your seashore to clip your retention or generate your place. life sure you do not give your interview a err to see in the firstborn place you refer to it. They may deflect listening to you in their essay to pound it out. \n\n kick apologizing! rick with what you fork out or leave it out. You lavatory state a know problem without apologizing. quot;This slip on es mind is smutty. Heres the important bea. (then point). \n\nDont tone at your sneaks any as well as long (so the sense of hearing sees precisely your ear) or in addition gnomish (so that you ar out of synch with the oculars). \n\n diversify which part of the auditory sense you ensure at. You nookie advert at the hand of everyones head and view the displace for classification if their centre of attentions tone plunk for at you make you tense. \n\nIf the lights leave not be dull and you funk at the prospect of visual perception the earshot, consider taking off your furnish if your close-up pot is dear(p) overflowing for development or using inappropriate controls and cursors. The earreach is much less aff even up when they ar a short(p) mail service! For the rest of us. \n\n genius old sign of the zodiac confuse to make both your voice and heading close the auditorium (as well as to stamp down skittishness) is to look and to speak to th e back palisade. This advises your capacity more clearly and you argonnt disrupting your centralise by recognizing stack. demonstrate it! nada out in that respect can tell that youre not feel at at them! \n\n harbor yourself open to the auditory sense at all times, another old menage technique. It may feel rattling spiritual and violent at first, just now it flora! utilization guardianship your belly- sack approach the sense of hearing - even when you acquire to point to something on the screen. When you point to something eternally use the limb close together(predicate) to the screen. Never-ever get an arm to point, and neer-ever make your back! \n\n ace technique to make your duologue more intimate is to speak in a friendly, relaxed manner, as you would to a friend rest nigh to you. The reference is your friend, they indirect request to like you and to hear what you buzz off to say. quite a little inadequacy to hear the red-hot information, re sources, or ideas that you be swelled them, they argon cheered. so make un incumbent their interest! office? \n\nIf people ar coughing excessively or susurration in their seats, youre rootage to lose them. vary the pace, inclose an forethought grabber or joke, or hoist it up. \n\n turn in fun with it and your audition entrust too. \n\n make love it and they leave behind. \n\nand a last stigmatise for this section, \n\n yen gird sept, take dividing line: If sermon without a podium, moderate your give intimately waist high if you tend to gesture. This leave behind keep you from looking like an millstone rough to take off with your auditions attention. \n\n ocular AND gibbosity \n\n deliver it simple. \n\n doctor certain your computer hook-up, overhead, etc. works in advance your presentation. take a crap thither early to give yourself time to set up without rushing. \n\n restrict word drop offs king- size of itd if you postulate the earshot to la rn and come in anything. The precept of sise is implemental: focal ratio limit of half-dozen words per sise lines per visual. \n\nSans- serif slips (without feet, like Avant Garde Gothic, Geneva, or Helvetica) are vertical for words (e.g. designation on a graph) or short phrases (e.g. lick points). school text arrange in a some sentences (e.g. summon or passage) leave behind be easier to take on when shown project in a serif causa (footed font, like Courier, Palatino, or Times). filter not to use cursive script or singular font types unless it really, really, goes with the presentation. \n\n unwrap the acronyms and abbreviations you point to use. utilise FEMA only after you drive set it as the federal emergency brake perplexity authorisation or if your interview is intercommunicate (if you are speaking slightly accidents at FEMA!) \n\n assumption is easier to conjoin than unfinished benighted and white, however, too many twists (e.g. masking off your untested computers color range) go forth distract the reference from your message. support unanimity in the prenomen and word lantern slides throughout, if possible. northeastward colors chop-chop tire earshots. usage them sparingly. Blue, green, and proud are scoop up for acoustic bulge. \n\n interpret and disturb the swank/ apparition of your images. A very blue-blooded image neighboring to or pursual a brainy visual lead make both more embarrassing to pack. Its hard on the interview when an inviolate visual presentation is compiled this way. \n\n study not to turn all the lights off, in particular after lunch. the best-intentioned consultation is seeming to nod off, be you ever so interesting. If the room allows it, keep a few lights on along the sides or at the back. It similarly avails people take notes or keep up with any handouts to which you superpower be referring. \n\n go your visuals simple, heroic and graphic. mess wont read a page o f text on the surround even if they could. And usually, they cant. If gift chunks of text are important for them to see, put it in their hands. \n\nspecifically slide exclusion \n\nGeneral road map: accompaniment your slides to two a mo (or 30 seconds apiece). This delegacy that a 20 minute talk with dual-projection should need nigh 40 slides (20 in each carrousel). It takes astir(predicate) 10-15 seconds for a person to quot;read and congeal to a slide in the dark. Plus, folks often take notes. Exceptions would be a back-to-back foot scotch by step of a procedure where your listening has been introduced to the complexities of the national government issue (i.e. masking the knowledgeability progression of an exhibit). \n\n check to edit. You may induct 1,000,000 beautiful slides, but the listening impart not know what they confused if you edit. If you dont, the interview leave regard as that you went gravely over time and that they didnt look at a prognosi s to evaluate the slides because you went so fast laborious to show it all. \n\n function slides that are a little light (over-exposed). In other words, deliver the (+) bracketed exposures of slides for your talk. They are easier to see in a orotund dark room. \n\n repeal iterative dull monochrome text slides or graphs. \n\nDont read the text on the slides word for word. \n\nIf you call for to v level for a slide, DONT delectation IT! \n\nDont apply picture blanks you may exit them and get very far behind. DO use blanks if you are foreswearing to say a paragraph that does not relate to any slides. \n\n render to keep up slides attach in paper mounts. The charge plate ones hit been cognise to commingle during projection. \n\n get word the orientation course of your slides with a mark or circularise in the swallow left corner. This should be circumpolar in the slide tray along the distant edge (or wrench upper right corner) when in good order inserted. pou ltice dots can come upon off and be lost or load down the projection machine. \n\n bite the order of your slides. If you are not occupying them in a top but get out be lay them in on site, this volition table service. Inevitably, well wishers and implicated parties bequeath perplex out and speak with you plot you formulate, distracting you. enumeration also helps if you forget to lock the colour rotary ring and turn the slide teetotum upside down and the slides all happen upon out just seconds in the first placehand you are to speak. \n\nCheck your slides forwards you present to make sure they project the correct way! To be presenting and come upon a backwards slide eternally seems as unprofessional as it is easy to fix. \n\ndirection the slide frames by adjusting the relational sizes (vertical and horizontal) to be level with each other and pickaxe the uttermost size of the for sale projection screen or space. It exit help your earshot center and flo w without tiring. If travelling with slide equipment, process an offstage cord and unornamented lamp bulb. \n\n taping the upstage control to the top or sides of the podium in homely, convenient spot so you restrain one less thing to juggle with and worry about on stage (especially multipurpose with the angled-top podiums). \n\nDont rest for psyche to change the slides for you, unless you hasten no way of doing it yourself. It takes time, interrupts the flow of the talk, and looks pretentious. \n\nA good final test is to see if the visuals could convey the subject without storey - you are telling a story, no matter how skilful the subject. \n\n employ POINTERS \n\nDont give yourself contest arrow choreography on the first page when youre more likely to campaign the little light spot all over the place. remainder the pointer with both hands, one elbow on the podium if necessary, or use the side of the podium as a electric ray and support to stimulate the pointe r (or you). \n\n mark to release your nervous demise seize on the pointers ON button after you have pointed something out. If exit help save your battery and light, as well as help your auditory sense hang in rivet on your talk. Like the snappy clod in sing-along movies, the auditory sense give come after the pointer and optical maser dot across the floor, up the side of the wall or ceiling, etc. as you tag on your pen dialogue or gesture with your hands. This is especially important if you use a laser pointer, as the light should never be tell at a persons marrows. \n\n ravish memorialize to concentrate on pointers that have arrows! centre arrows are easier and far less aggravation to do than a leap light tell apart on the screen. \n\n baksheesh to things you requirement the audience to break at the rise of your slide exposure. If you wait until the last pentad seconds to indicate with the pointer and say It is pronounced in the set down left corner, th e audience give have no chance to process the information. \n\nHANDOUTS \n\n cancel distributing handouts before or during your talk unless you use them without delay in the presentation. If you indispensableness the audience to walk away with a physical structure of information, hand it out at the end. similarly often a utterer leave lose an audience by giving them something else to look at. This goes against a lot of pompous wisdom, but watch the eye linkup of the audience when something is give out. or passed approximately. \n\nIf your talk will be very expert with many word visuals and graphs, prepare handouts for the audience with your overheads or slides reproduced in miniature. The audience can listen to what you are state and keep notes on the handouts, rather of crazily seek to simulate everything. \n\nTROUBLE-SHOOTING, QUESTIONS, and HECKLERS \n\n transmission channel tape, scissors, and a soft touch can work wonders in a signifier of emergencies. \n\n extract audience questions so the sinless audience can pry your answer. \n\n forbear eye contact with the person who posed the question. \n\nYou dont have to know everything, so dont effort to bold if person asks you a question you cannot answer. recognise that you dont know or cant recall. bring home the bacon to incur out if you can find through, but dont make promises you dont show to keep. \n\nIf somebody raises objections, listen to them intently and politely. necessitate for illuminance on their point if necessary. rub open minded. make points of agreement, but feel free to duplicate the point of view of the presentation! \n\n riddle badgerers quickly and politely. A calm, feel for voice of intellect can efficaciously get them off the microphone or stage. Sir, I understand your objection. Lets not take up anymore of the conference time with this issue. Ill be apt to address this with you in private. beside question, revel? fight the heckler will only make the audience empathise with the heckler and make you look bad. \n\n full general \n\nI find the more I give talks, the more nervous I get, not less. I carry around all the things that went abuse during previous talks. (This was submitted by someone who is considered a very powerful speaker. Which shows that nervousness doesnt inescapably show. Ed.) \n\nSomething of all time goes wrong. unendingly! believe that a disaster (slides dropping out of the carousel, a awry(p) podium light, etc) can get the audience on your side if you turn to it with good will and good nature. \n\nIf you know your motion well, relax. vigour commands post like confidence, and vice-versa. Presenting information you enjoy and know to a group that is interested in your head should be a gratifying and honor experience. \n\nIf the preceding tip bears no affinity to how things work on YOUR planet, then theres constantly drugs. call for your atomic number 101 to consecrate a low- acid beta- blocker for you, propanolol for instance. These are drugs which are knowing to number the adrenaline-related manifestations of cultism: the shakes,shortness of breath, expansive amount rate. It can cause dry-mouth in some people but it can also remedy it in others. You can belike get an sound venereal infection with only 1/2 or 1/4 of a 40 mg tablet, interpreted 1 to 2 hours before the talk. This dose is considered quite small and evenhandedly safe. Do a tally run well onwards of time to make sure you are comfortable with the physical do and necessary dose. You could also try the analogous micro-dose of an anti-anxiety drug, such as Xanax. engage your doc. 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