Rehearse your presentation and it will get better. Rehearse in front of a similar audience, your work colleagues will be ideal.

Plan to rehearse your presentation out loud at least 4 times.

We suggest that you should rehearse at least four times, and if you can get word perfect so much the better. I know that you haven't got the time, but we have seen so many presentations that have been let down due to a lack of rehearsal.

Rehearsing could make the difference between a good and an average presentation.

Take a leaf out of Winston Churchill's book. He is widely attributed as being one of the great speakers. It took him six weeks to prepare his Maiden Speech in the House of Commons and he learnt it word perfect.

Make sure that one of your rehearsals is in front of a real scary audience - family, friends, partners, colleagues, children. They will tell you quite plainly where you are going wrong - as well as providing you with the support that you need.

Does it work? - Just read this bit of feedback from someone who got a new job using these techniques

"Then I practised, I think this is the key.
I practised in front of my husband, my brother in law, my 12 year old daughter.
Then my 4 year old son on the day, he wasn't impressed, he just wanted me to put the telly on.

I blew their socks off!! he he

Definitely could not have done it without your help"

Rehearse and you will get better.