marketing manager speech

It’s been three years since you graduated from college. After gaining experience as an administrative assistant at a major office equipment manufacturer, you’ve just been promoted to marketing manager for office copiers. Though you have occasionally given brief reports to other members of your work team, you’re now facing your first speech to a large audience. At your company’s annual sales meeting, you will address the sales force about the company’s new multifunction printer/copiers, and how to sell them to dealers such as Office Depot and OfficeMax. You’re pleased to have this opportunity and you know it shows the company’s faith in your abilities. Yet the closer you get to the day of the speech, the harder it is to control the butterflies in your stomach. There will be 200 people in your audience, including all the sales managers and regional managers, in addition to the sales force. All eyes will be on you. It’s important that you come across as confident and well informed, but you’re afraid your stage fright will send the opposite message. What strategies will you use to control your nerves and make them work for you? please write in first person