If you have a demonstration to present at work you need to verify a few simple concepts that will help you to produce a more impelling presentation. Once you have got the hang of these principles, you will speedily be able to hand over more and more talks with greater ease and impact. You might even start looking for chances to give talks.

Write out the lecture 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.Keep the messages clear and concise – Do not go for over the top language and sacrifice clarity

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. remember that the optical prompts are not the talk. . remember 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 male 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 mortals do to make them sound good on the telly.

The radio can be a great and cheap instructor of voiceover skills. If you think about it, most of the people on there would have been to some sort of vocalise coaching master class, so why not make a note of what they do and then simulate them?

You have to look great and sound good. So make sure that you are dressed smartly for your demonstration. Don’t be distracting by your appearance – either because you look too pleasant or too bad. It would be a real disgrace to get yourself all prepared to sound superb, if nobody listened to you because you looked a mess or too hot.