You work as a marketing coordinator for Gillespie Homes, a construction firm in Calgary. Your job duties include delivering oral presentations for a variety of different purposes to many different audiences. One of your current tasks is to prepare a presentation for the company's sales team to outline the projected time frame and marketing strategies your department has developed to sell homes the company has built in a new subdivision. The members of your sales team have made it clear that they consider the material you will present to them dull and irrelevant. They have found these presentations to be repetitious and boring in the past. However, your boss insists that they need the information and that attendance is mandatory. You also need to make a presentation to small groups of potential suppliers of products and services. You have been asked to provide additional information and explain how to submit a proposal using the company's new online proposal form. You have already heard from several of these suppliers who are frustrated and hostile about the new form, which they consider unnecessarily long, detailed, and confusing You are very nervous before you begin your presentation to Gillespie Homes suppliers because you have never met most of them and you know many of them are annoyed with the new proposal procedures. According to the text, what will reduce your stage fright?
a. Have a PowerPoint presentation that uses sound and graphics extensively.
b. Know your subject thoroughly.
c. Wear a professional outfit that makes you feel confident.
d. Picture your audience without any clothes on.