Confident Speaking!

When I work with my clients, it's all about focus.  You come on stage with confidence; begin your program with confidence!  You are focused on your message, never on whether your AV equipment is going to operate correctly.  That is someone else's job - yours is to focus on the value you're giving your audience.  If there's a problem with the mic, your audience will let you know right away, and your AV person will fix it.  You then confidently start your program again, after, perhaps, testing the mic by speaking until the problem is fixed.  Unruffled, you launch into your program without putting any focus on the mic issue.