Delivering a lecture can be highly frightening. However, as with many initially scary things, if you acquire some of the basic precepts, you will easily begin to start getting better. You can very rapidly become highly proficient with your lecture skills. If you have job interview or are in sales, it is a key skill to acquire.

Create a script of how you want the sales pitch 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. recollect to mark on your cards the optical aids that go with them so that the right OHP or slide is shown at the right time.

Work out how you are going to use your voice. You may even listen to voiceover 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 people do to make them sound superb on the telly.

Listen to the radio set, as you can frequently find that the voiceover artist they have are well directed. Many of them have gone to voice over workshops and they know what they have to do to make themselves sound clear.

Then think about your appearance. You should look smart. Your dress shouldn’t distract from your subject matter, so Don’t dress too sexily. There is no point spending a lot of time working out how you are going to sound and ensuring that your voice has been well trained to find that you have a strange habit of twitching or that you look shabby.

Think about your body language. About 93% of the content that you deliver is based on the non verbal aspects of your message delivery, so make sure that you have all the bases covered by conditioning the various aspects of your lecture style.