Practice. Practice. Practice.
You need to put in the time to be confident of a decent result. It might sound old fashioned and boring, but there really is no substitute if you want to be great. This is what will get you to mastery. Great speakers are made, not born.
You could of course just wing it and be okay. If you are really committed to mastering presentation skills, you have to be able to take a look at yourself and the gap between where you are now and where you would like to be. When you watch someone who is great at speaking, know that they still work on getting better every single day. It never stops.
Some key benefits to spending time rehearsing:
Overcoming fears of speaking
Keeping to your time slot ...
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