The ability to present well can be a significant benefit in organizational life. It can help you to share your ideas, gain support for your recommendations, train or coach others, win a promotion or achieve a pay rise, and so on. Despite the clear advantages, this apparently does little to calm the fear of the vast majority of people the fear of formally presenting to a group. In fact, most people are more comfortable dealing with death, bankruptcy, taxes, divorce, imprisonment, snakes, spiders, mice, and the dark quite a list!