Sit back and fasten your seat for a no-BS quick start guide to conquering stage fright, eradicating fear of public speaking, and mastering expert presentation skills:

Public Speaking Training Crash Course - Step #1:

Conquering stage fright - this is what stops most people from doing any type of public speaking.

But, conquering fear of pubic speaking is much easier than most people think.

First, forget about all the useless "traditional advice" you've heard in public speaking training books such as: "everyone gets nervous" or "picture your audience naked".

None of that is helpful.

Conquer stage fright by attacking it from the opposite direction: never try to reduce fear of public speaking or try to manage stage fright,:

Instead, decide exactly how you want to feel when your' in front of people.

See how that's a totally different approach? You're not trying to manage stage fright, you're replacing it with what you WANT TO feel.

My suggestion is choose confidence. Then, simply think of who you believe to be a confident speaker.

It doesn't matter if this person is living or not, famous or not, someone you personally know or not. The only thing you need to do then is to emulate their confidence.

This may take a bit of trying out and practice, but when you were a kid this was easy - you could easily "pretend" to be someone else.

But, don't imitate, just emulate. You're not trying to be exactly like them, you're just "borrowing" their confidence.

Public Speaking Training Crash Course - Step #2:

Decide on your #1 major objective for this presentation. Get crystal clear on exactly what you're trying to achieve, and keep that outcome clearly in your mind at all times - especially when you're speaking.

What ARE you trying to accomplish?

Get a petition signed?

Get agreement from a group on a specific task the group should accomplish?

Sell a product or service?

Write it down.

Outcome clarification helps you to keep the focus off of you, thereby helping to eradicate nervousness, but it also focuses your presentation making it much tighter and cleaner.

Public Speaking Training Crash Course - Step #3:

The next step is, how to prepare a dynamite presentation - quickly:

The answer is using "The 4-Mat System": take the content of your presentation and simply put it into the following sequence:

Why: why are you talking about this now? Why is this important? Why should your listeners care?

What: what facts, data and statistics do you have to support what you have to say? Line them up, write them down, organize them logically.

How: how can your audience use this information? How do they "make it fly"?

What-if: "what-if" just means that you'll hold a question and answer session - you'll ask: "what questions do you have?"

Now sandwich your presentation with a summary at the beginning and the end - that summary can and should be exactly the same which hammers your main point home.

There's your public speaking training crash course!