Delivering a lecture can be extremely frightening. However, as with many initially scary things, if you determine some of the basic principles, you will easily begin to start improving. You can very speedily become highly proficient with your lecture skills. If you have job interview or are in sales, it is a key acquisition to acquire.
Write out the talk in rough, just like a first draft of a written report. You will find things that are irrelevant or superfluous - delete them. Check the story is consistent and flows smoothly. If there are things you cannot easily express, possibly because of doubt about your understanding, it is better to leave them unsaid.
Create a script of how you want the demonstration to pan out, detailing the key elements of your speech and work on how the talk will sound to your audience. Powerpoint should be the aid and not the master. Think about putting visual clues on your sales pitch script so that you recollect when to talk about the next item
Work out how you are going to use your voice. You may even listen to voice-over artists to work out how you might make yourself sound even better. There are plenty of great voice-over talents out there. Note the effect your voice has on those that listen to you when you are talking. Figure out what and how mortals do to make them sound cracking on the telly.
The radio can be a great and cheap teacher of voiceover skills. If you think about it, most of the souls on there would have been to some sort of vocalize coaching master class, so why not make a note of what they do and then re-create them?
You have to look smashing and sound pleasant. So ensure that you are dressed smartly for your presentation. Do not be distracting by your appearance - either because you look too superb or too bad. It would be a real disgrace to get yourself all prepared to sound superb, if nobody heard to you because you looked a mess or too hot.
