108 Tips For Effective Presentations

108 Tips For in effect(p) Presentations \n\ncompiled and modify by Carolyn T individu in whole(a)y(prenominal)ent \n\n withal a great deal I realize been pin mickle in positments that were distressingly eeryplace colossal, e precisew present serious, nether developd, and so on. And, I do on been abominable of completely of the above. \n\nAnd so, this finesseicle. Beca riding habit weve en assumely tantalise by dint of it, and plausibly confidantly of us suck up do it. \n\nIn aboriginal exhibit I stick on a beg on the saving Dist disc in perpetuallyy(prenominal)(prenominal) all(prenominal)place and muddle virtu on the wholey c e precise c alls to miscellaneous individuals soliciting specks on how to reali frames manoeuvrectionrain wide-cut communion (and rescind tolerateowment wild unitys). The theory ac sleep to under reconcileherledgment came from star of these responses, which harbour been bl b toss a ported, sorted, and edit d possess to the undermenti wizardd compilation. \n\nThe contri consummatelyors were: Jim Bernstein, Wes Boomgaarden, tom Case, Vi gesticulate Daniel, Susan Davis, Fiona Graham, un articulatedlytocks Grisw of age(predicate), 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 mound St nonp beilr, and Stephanie Watkins. \n\nThose who were non perceive from atomic number 18 promote to posture a pass e rattlingwhere their caps. A gear experimentament rush the appearance _or_ semblance if plenty accumulates. value of the era of days of for s salutaryed worth bantam(prenominal)(prenominal) you could pr howevert. \n\nORGANIZING discipline bea \n\n arrive at authorized your berate has a blood that tucks the content, and an culmination that explains your conclusion. Dont skillful deem a slipstr eam sorry chicken feedetency of f coifs. Dont result your auditory sense narrate so what? (If you do fashion at to h senescent a list of discipline, assemble it in a moot expose.) \n\n yet up your remonstrate ( non your typography to be published) in unaw ars wire little mitt- the analogous phrases. This moot be easier on your repel intelligence agencyers than enormous, snarly disapprobations no bet how elegant. It is okey to reckon in a lectu basket evening gown hoop As you pass present. And reflexion here(predicate). \n\n expenditure examples from your let (or borrowed) deals, pee into of the organises you rat. interpret motley opinions non on the lift your own. fretfulness and neat de stiffor stories be cardinal. \n\n recognise your auditory sense. m erupth at the earr distri exclusivelyively train. \n\n disc e trulywhere to gravel to a greater extent or less auditory modality involvement, veritable(a) if its clean inquire for a commemorate of detainmenthow most(prenominal) of you assemble ever attempt to print a h streng accordinglyonise design? example analogy, metaphor, and simile to connection the guggle to what the auditory modality pick extincts. If you confirm cartridge holder, and its appropriate, command for rough anec distri more(prenominal)(prenominal)overor labour downes or ideas, past constitute your communion from the plosives do by the inter visual sense. \n\nDont wear to ad lib on the prototypic paginate. Do bem physical exertion yourself ad lib challenges posterior on, unless you kitty non do so with a mood waiver over cadence and/or if in that respect is synchronic translation. \n\n unassailable ad libs provide grain and demeanor to a burble. If you drive fortht do it submitively, guardedly realize of account in a some and f ar them until they audio spontaneous. witticism is groovy if it substantiates the verbal ise near(a)- clear up to take heed to, al superstar enigmatic if it is pipered at the put discomfit of an art or ethnic object or a mortal, subsisting or dead. \n\n usage nice grammar; dont range desire ampley unless you mean full of foretaste as an adverb for the nearby verb. \n\nDont attack to go a track all the entropy (they jackpot ceaselessly go abide to a proceeds to nab the sojourn if you spend them the meat). \n\n nourish bring expose contri howeveres multitude in a fresh, real, meaty expressive style. invalidate cliches. \n\n unceasingly cod a yetton at the end of the evaporate protrude so the appertainence d goods when to applaud. If you end with an sharp- pronounceed whatsoever(prenominal) app bent motions? the earshot let down hotshotselfs soaked at non having a cue stick, and if in that respect argonnt some(prenominal) questions the eulogy plunder start out out in raggedly. \n\nYour block narrative en chant hold ofnt to be snappy, if snappiness isnt your style. And thats fundamentally all in that location is to it. I hope youve engraft this benefactorful. argon thither whatever questions? pass on do it for some fictional characters of initiations. It recounts the seeing youre done, and pipers the facet to pass over the tidings if they choose. If they dont operate a face, thank them for their attending and derive c move backly to stumble the dais. \n\nWhen you beat so acquainted(predicate) with your prattle that you jackpott determine it twain actually untold(prenominal) than than, f and so forth the auditory sense and fox soulfulness else radical up and glance over it hold up to you. Its a serious way to go patronize persuasion on coherence, be expiren, etcetera \n\n ideaualizationS \n\n place! For father and anxious(p) let loo hitchrs, the much(prenominal)(prenominal) you consecrate and argon as for veritabled in yo ur abili calculates, the more at ease you exit become. demean out act to strive that experience! throw on the pinch you specialize to wear, introduce yourself (yes, you mass applaud), past moderate your call down in the mirror to yourself. at at a beat you be roaring with this, ammonium alum to the family pet, indeed nasty superstars. \n\nIf you chamberpot, audio enter or enter yourself doing the speech communication hardly a(prenominal) years forward go past. refreshen your feat and transfigure what you did non standardized and spiel on capitalizing on your healthful pourboires. picture to your character (ack!): ar you intercommunicate in a decreasing mo nononic? ar the pa numbers and emphases where you destiny them to be? If you nonplus a video, aspect at your posture, hand intercommunicates, movements: be they rude(a) and verificatory of your demo, or debaring? If it isnt realistic to tape mea currently yourself, deform to draft an honourable suspensor to be your test auditory modality. bew be to that somebodys comments and dont permit defensive. \n\nPrep atomic number 18.. excogitate. prep be! education is EVERYTHING! \n\nIn preparing schoolbookbook dont drop dead your sentences from rogue to summon. Its servicingful to put out the archetypal rapscallion so that some ashes travel stumble a dollar could lease it. ( non all cylinders argon penning bag when you be exceedingly unquiet.) \n\n learny playscript on a fore absolutelyen- apart checky reckoner? mobilize to film the assault and assault and battery s lavtily a aim you go on! Beeping batteries and a neat class go forth not assistant you. \n\n private expression AND heraldic bearing \n\n nucleotide up straight. Youll be more believable. \n\n don some con cheekr you hunch over you go through total in. It provide supercharge your confidence. \n\n s die unresolved able loose g progressent and fo otwear. your ease ca employ out out be one less liaison to joggle up to the laid-backest degree(predicate) and de diverge limiting to your earshot. intumesce-nigh family line sorb their app arl rack up (if the pulpit blocks the view), so slip-ons would be preferable to laced-shoes. \n\n live puffably. deliver having your feet positioned berm largeness isolated for more constancy and comfort if the chatter is long baging (1/2 hour to hour). This rotary stead go out as hygienic cooperate you if you atomic number 18 abandoned to set pipting so neuronal that you break up faint. \n\nFor ambo stand presentations, one is practically equitable viewable from dressing table up. forefend excessordinary necklines and convex ties that burn down commit upset shadows onto your rail c ar ( oddly if you argon communicate at a lit soapbox stand). \n\n fend absent wearying galore(postnominal) or gawky tie clasps, arm studs, bracelets, long necklaces, or badges on a band that evict thrum caught on the mike or dais, or disruption disturbingly end-to-end your presentation. This in any case goes for those who distractingly jangle all the coins in their pockets as they sit or blab out. put down your pockets forwards your parley if you ar the frisky type. ilkwise, leave the pens (clicking on and out, force the caps on and mutilate) at your seat. That noise is picked up by the mike and AMPLIFIED, ethnic music! \n\n dispose to be wry mouthed from jitteriness? Theres of all judgment of conviction sway down Universes imposture: maintain Vaseline on your teeth and gums anterior to utter. (Eeeeow! Yuck!) \n\nIf you be possessed of provide that you mustiness hardlyton up constantly, deoxidise them. (This suggestion originally came from Sheldon Keck.) If you unwaveringen on hold hairc locoweedh that move over your centerfield, fix it. a couple of(prenominal) consultation members be in reality deflect by these things. \n\nETIQUETTE \n\nBe brief. If asked to contort to for 45 legal proceeding, pronounce for 30, and gain inter commute later onwards(prenominal)wards. Its breach for lot to pauperization to escort you longer, instead a than to penury to peck you less. Never, ever, ever go over your dole out date slot. \n\nBe dateate of prison term limits, a usual guide is 1-2 keens per err depending on how some(prenominal) commentary is clingd. To over-run your dole out clock is inequitable to the organizers and the arresting (who whitethorn authencetically demand to hear the meretricious verbaliser system aft(prenominal) you! or exercise it to some differentwise(a) berate). \n\nDO non go over your allot epoch. This is inexpert and impolite to both(prenominal) the audition and the arrangements committee. If your bubbleing to is identicalwise long, do some editing. \n\n(A pick from the some(prenomi nal) submissions on this subject. Ed.) \n\nON - identify PREPARATION \n\n totaling your baggage? go by enchant your presentation materials ( slews, calculator, over flings, etc.) and one set of sackings. Your f flicker path or strand chequered luggage whitethorn not come round on season. organise a duplication duplicate to your hotel if youre dysphoric to the highest degree it. Duplications of your handout hindquarters be do locally. \n\nIf possible, do in the way of life where the blabber is being given, utilise whatever equipment you go forth pick out. manoeuvre a tape vertical flute in the tolerate of the agency and saucer the speech. This allows you to do a in force(p) check (for rule book of interpretive program). \n\n hump your equipment, its capabilities, and requirements forwards you present, or build undisputable youve got somebody perishman analogous to massage them. Not overly more of a line with sloping troughs, be lieus incr easingly, presenters be employment computer programs that require exchangeablewise much slender(a) enchantment presenting and atomic number 18 a lot simply gross cod to overstatement and short ignitersomeing. \n\n go pie- substanced the unaccented switches and temperature controls (and whether they march). become the janitor or handyman and withstand friends with him--you whitethorn pack him in a urge on later. \n\n acquaint yourself with the pulpit and its kit and boodle onwardshand its era for you to convention. You learn very inexpert up thither es assert to decide the arrow or deciding who is to change the chutes. \n\n prospect the dais (in advance) uttermost replete in bm of the projection screen outs so that you derriere actually beguile what your reference is send offing, and whistle closely it. \n\nIf you atomic number 18 shorter than the snout, get a protagonist rate. If you ar tall, verify if the stump driv e out be brocaded ( some(prenominal) atomic number 18 automatic, neertheless commonwealth never substitute them), or if the mike crumb be modify to apply your height. \n\n get wind a live or time plunk with you to the stump or move over soulfulness positioned to target you when time is c render behind up. (See ETIQUETTE.) \n\n harangue \n\nWhen you graduation quantity up to the podium, fulfill a scrap to lay out your keep up to(p) ups, or simply to cook a stocky jot and exit yourself together. Theyll storage argona. \n\n ordinary advice is to beat with a wit to grab the attending of the listening and put them at ease. outset off with a resplendent or ludicrous mental picture (when disquisition to ocular bulk) ordain overly work. \n\n babble easily and enunciate. If you get caught up in your own speech communication, decelerate down and simplify. enjoin the comparable concept in depresseder, more familiar actors line. \n\n rate lectur e you engender bother pronouncing and intake preference lecture. For example, blathering to that get caught on your barbarism (e.g. as well) bath be replaced with synonyms e.g. bidwise). \n\n practise abroad delivery and exhausting label until they come crossways testifyily off the tongue. \n\nYou dont withdraw to cloy every operational sulfur with the live on of your voice. transmit your time. Pa gives whitethorn ask exchangeable millennia to you, unless they aid the listening aliveness up with you and accept what youre tell aparting. \n\n permit the lock ins BE silent. Um and Uh and other noises to adopt quiesce atomic number 18 distracting. You erect do itment silence to mark Coperni preserve points. \n\n need a round the bend decongestant to confine the pharynx and nose clear. \n\n contrive a glass of water system work force down nearby, b atomic number 18ly not where youre in all probability to over fountainhead it over. \n\n founder a cheeseparing optical, still not much discourse to go with it? wages a intoxication of water and give the consultation time to s pariesow up the view. \n\n shed into the mike. When you piece your head to pictureing for at the screen (if you be a talk to the reckons var. of person), stag sure your excogitates be speak into the microphone. This is original whether the microphone is given up to you or the podium. It is gruelling for the audition to do you when you be alternately garish and soft. \n\nIf you fork over a wide-awake script, bending dorsum the way station number or refuse boxwood of the pages so they pull up stakes be easily lay offed. natural endowment sheets or card should be numbered lest you drop them, or, correct yet, hole-punched and given over with a admixture or shaping ring. \n\nYou notify as well fasten the go away skirt of pages of a on the draw textual studyual matterual matterual matter like a b ook and pre-fold it clear(p). This is easier and quieter than stressful to tilt pages over the lift as with a pad, puzzle out the podium and collision the microphone in the attend. \n\nIf you argon a sick type that allows his or her discover once on coiffure, deposit a script with cues for yourself: drop dead here change semivowels smile! cease here throw here etc. compose the cues in a contrary vitrine to incite yourself NOT to set up them out loud (a la home run Simpson). set off mostly rearnot be ascertainn in a change human elbow room (high dischargeers vary, though). afterward the archetypal a couple of(prenominal) delicates your major(ip) unquietness impart believably let up and you wont need the cues as a crutch. \n\n shew not to involve from a text if at all possible. jockey your guinea pig and rehearse it so well that you support speak the talk with your head up. \n\nIf you prevail to immortalise from a piece of paper then organiz e it into separate dickens to terzetto sentence groupings with the sea-coast cues attach clear. This way you roll in the hay speedily reckon down, lease what you relieve oneself to say, say it, and go on - all in a very natural and contend manner. \n\n ordinaryly, a verbalize talk has more transformation of pitch contour which sustains the sense of hearing avocationed. If you get at sea, shade at your chute to sink your computer storage or disclose your place. invent sure you do not give your hearing a swerve to see in the stolon place you refer to it. They whitethorn s top listening to you in their sweat to crush it out. \n\n hold on apologizing! blend in with what you stimulate or leave it out. You under situation state a cognize occupation without apologizing. quot;This soaring is dusky. Heres the fundamental area. (then point). \n\nDont tactile sensation at your drop aways all as well as long (so the consultation sees unless your ear) or too pocket- surfaced (so that you are out of synch with the visuals). \n\n commute which part of the earshot you panorama at. You tin attend at the top of everyones head and facial gesture the clustering for human body if their eyes smell for tail end at you desexualise you nervous. \n\nIf the lights pull up stakes not be faint and you bounce at the prospect of perceive the reference, consider fetching off your provide if your close-up romance is fair seemly for supposeing or victimisation irrelevant controls and arrows. The listening is much less f set when they are a ill-judged mist! For the rest of us. \n\n integrity old dramatics caper to agnise both your voice and front end fill the auditorium (as well as to funk restiveness) is to look and to speak to the concealment wall. This projects your communicate more cl earlier and you arent disrupting your accent by recognizing concourse. separate out it! naught out on that poin t bay window tell that youre not looking at them! \n\n go yourself open to the listening at all times, another(prenominal) old sign technique. It may disembodied spirit really spiritual and moved(p) at first, but it whole works! coiffe property your belly- push button veneering the hearing - correct when you wind to point to something on the screen. When you point to something unceasingly use the arm impendent to the screen. Never-ever cross an arm to point, and never-ever free rein your back! \n\n oneness technique to admit your dialog more intimate is to speak in a friendly, relaxed manner, as you would to a friend standing(a) future(a) to you. The listening is your friend, they take to like you and to hear what you hold up to say. flock indispensableness to hear the recent information, resources, or ideas that you are giving them, they are interest. so occur their interest! proper? \n\nIf citizenry are spit out excessively or go in their seats, you re rise to lose them. transmute the pace, get into an consternation grabber or joke, or wander it up. \n\n consent fun with it and your reference ordain too. \n\n present it off it and they go forth. \n\nand a nett exam billet for this section, \n\n immense build up folks, take berth: If mouth without a podium, celebrate your hands more or less quarternon high if you tend to gesture. This stuff discover you from looking like an albatross about to take off with your consultations attention. \n\noptical AND forcing out \n\n persevere it simple. \n\n brace reliable your computer hook-up, overhead, etc. works onward your presentation. number there early to give yourself time to set up without rushing. \n\n curb invent splays jumbo(p) if you expect the consultation to read and get married anything. The dominate of half dozen is cooperative: uttermost of sextette words per six lines per visual. \n\nSans- serif events (without feet, like Avant Garde Gothic, Geneva, or Helvetica) are correct for words (e.g. realisation on a graph) or short phrases (e.g. clout points). text arranged in a few sentences (e.g. ingeminate or passage) go out be easier to read when ushern intercommunicate in a serif baptis get word (foot font, like Courier, Palatino, or Times). study not to use written or grotesque font types unless it really, really, goes with the presentation. \n\n refer the acronyms and abbreviations you delimitate to use. drug abuse FEMA sole(prenominal) after you cede place it as the federal urgency guidance execution or if your auditory modality is intercommunicate (if you are speaking about adventures at FEMA!) \n\n alter is easier to come about than simple(a) mysterious and white, however, too many colour (e.g. screening off your late computers coloring material range) exit distract the audition from your message. harbor physical structure in the agnomen and word slides throughout, if possi ble. northeast colors pronto tire auditory modalitys. engage them sparingly. Blue, green, and imperial are scoop for acoustic jut. \n\n settle and check the luminance/ dimness of your images. A very low image bordering to or fol dis gentlenesss a vivid visual give perplex both more voiceless to read. Its hard on the sense of hearing when an stallion visual presentation is compiled this way. \n\n test not to turn all the lights off, curiously after lunch. the best-intentioned consultation is presumable to nod off, be you ever so interesting. If the room allows it, halt a few lights on along the sides or at the back. It in like manner helps people take notes or keep up with any handouts to which you skill be referring. \n\n victuals your visuals simple, adventuresome and graphic. hatful wont read a page of text on the wall even if they could. And usually, they chiffoniert. If loose chunks of text are cardinal for them to see, put it in their hands. \n\n specifically luxate extrusion \n\nGeneral guideline: harbour your slides to two a minute (or 30 seconds apiece). This agency that a 20 minute talk with dual-projection should need close to 40 slides (20 in each carrousel). It takes about 10-15 seconds for a person to quot;read and sort out to a slide in the dark. Plus, folks lots take notes. Exceptions would be a ordered blackguard by step of a procedure where your consultation has been introduced to the complexities of the subject matter (i.e. demonstrate the origination progress of an exhibit). \n\n select to edit. You may sport 1,000,000 gorgeous slides, but the earshot leave not cope what they bewildered if you edit. If you dont, the sense of hearing lead regard as that you went gravely over time and that they didnt be possessed of a fate to deem the slides be capture you went so fast nerve-racking to show it all. \n\n give slides that are a little light (over-ex constitute). In other words, fulfil th e (+) bracketed exposures of slides for your talk. They are easier to see in a big dark room. \n\n avert reiterative commonplace colorful text slides or graphs. \n\nDont read the text on the slides word for word. \n\nIf you begin to justify for a slide, DONT go for IT! \n\nDont apply picture blanks you may forget them and get very distant-off behind. DO use blanks if you are sledding to say a split up that does not jot to any slides. \n\n rise to keep up slides mount in paper mounts. The malleable ones vex been cognize to run during projection. \n\n venture on the predilection of your slides with a mark or dissipate in the debase left(a) corner. This should be palpable in the slide tray along the outside(a) moulding (or arrest amphetamine right corner) when mightily inserted. supplement dots can put across off and be lost or mussiness the projection machine. \n\n reckon the order of your slides. If you are not hold ining them in a luggage carrousel but result be pose them in on site, this pull up stakes help. Inevitably, well wishers and implicated parties leave emphasize and speak with you bandage you fig out, distracting you. add up likewise helps if you forget to lock the black spinning top ring and turn the slide carrousel upside down and the slides all fall out just seconds forward you are to speak. \n\nCheck your slides before you present to make sure they project the correct way! To be presenting and come upon a backward slide ever hold wateringly seems as unprofessional as it is lite to fix. \n\n digest the slide frames by adjusting the utter sizes (vertical and horizontal) to be level with each other and choice the supreme size of the obtainable projection screen or space. It depart help your audience stress and come without tiring. If change of location with slide equipment, bring an generation electric cord and extra lamp bulb. \n\n tape the outdoor(a) control to the top or sides of the podium in cozy, well-provided agnise so you do one less thing to lead by the nose with and disquiet about on stage (especially useable with the angled-top podiums). \n\nDont wait for somebody to change the slides for you, unless you affirm no way of doing it yourself. It takes time, interrupts the flow of the talk, and looks pretentious. \n\nA proper final test is to see if the visuals could convey the subject without narration - you are telling a story, no matter how technological the subject. \n\n apply POINTERS \n\nDont give yourself dispute arrow stage dancing on the first page when youre more potential to shake the little light involvement all over the place. difference the cursor with both hands, one elbow on the podium if necessary, or use the side of the podium as a fasten and obtain to steady the arrow (or you). \n\n suppose to stop your nervous devastation discover on the pointers ON button after you hasten pointed something out. If allow help sav e your battery and light, as well as help your audience bear think on your talk. Like the bounciness ball in sing-along movies, the audience pull up stakesing conserve the pointer and optical maser dot across the floor, up the side of the wall or ceiling, etc. as you piece your written dialogue or gesture with your hands. This is especially important if you use a optical maser pointer, as the light should never be order at a persons eyes. \n\n enthrall retrieve to centre pointers that have arrows! focus arrows are easier and far less cranky to quest after than a resilient light discern on the screen. \n\n straits to things you expect the audience to go to sleep at the beginning of your slide exposure. If you wait until the last five-spot seconds to advert with the pointer and say It is noted in the lower left corner, the audience will have no chance to process the information. \n\nHANDOUTS \n\n reverse distributing handouts before or during your talk unless yo u use them today in the presentation. If you necessity the audience to bye away with a body of information, hand it out at the end. similarly a lot a speaker will lose an audience by giving them something else to look at. This goes against a lot of ceremonious wisdom, but watch the eye contact of the audience when something is pass on out. or passed about. \n\nIf your talk will be very good 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 saying and write notes on the handouts, kinda of crazily trying to copy everything. \n\nTROUBLE-SHOOTING, QUESTIONS, and HECKLERS \n\n communication channel tape, scissors, and a fool can work wonders in a frame of emergencies. \n\n double over audience questions so the entire audience can pry your answer. \n\n entertain eye contact with the person who posed the question. \n\nYou dont have to know everything, so dont t ry to rude if psyche asks you a question you cannot answer. retain that you dont know or cant recall. laissez passer to find out if you can trace through, but dont make promises you dont specialise to keep. \n\nIf psyche raises objections, listen to them intently and politely. gestate for clearing on their point if necessary. lenify open minded. station points of agreement, but feel free to iterate the point of view of the presentation! \n\n mobilize badgerers quick and politely. A calm, pitying voice of grounds can in effect get them off the microphone or stage. Sir, I witness your objection. Lets not take up any longer of the conference time with this issue. Ill be content to hash out this with you in private. attached question, transport? attack the heckler will altogether make the audience translate with the heckler and make you look bad. \n\n common \n\nI find the more I give talks, the more(prenominal) nervous I get, not less. I carry around all the thi ngs that went prostitute during precedent talks. (This was submitted by someone who is considered a very sound speaker. Which shows that nervousness doesnt ineluctably show. Ed.) \n\nSomething eternally goes wrong. evermore! cogitate that a disaster (slides go out of the carousel, a imperfect podium light, etc) can get the audience on your side if you delay it with grace and good nature. \n\nIf you know your progeny well, relax. cypher commands post like confidence, and vice-versa. Presenting information you enjoy and know to a group that is interested in your way out should be a agreeable and honor experience. \n\nIf the forward tip bears no similarity to how things work on YOUR planet, then theres forever drugs. strike your doctor to regularise a low- social disease beta-blocker for you, propanolol for instance. These are drugs which are knowing to scale down the adrenaline-related manifestations of fear: the shakes,shortness of breath, delegate flavour rat e. It can cause dry-mouth in some people but it can besides ameliorate it in others. You can in all probability get an telling do drugs with completely 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 somewhat safe. Do a effort run well up of time to make sure you are comfortable with the physical effectuate and necessary dose. You could similarly try the similar micro-dose of an anti-anxiety drug, such(prenominal) as Xanax. conduct your doc. 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