Maybe you know the feeling. You're sweaty, maybe shaking a little. Your mouth is dry, your previously well-ordered and rehearsed points are now scattered. You're making a presentation, and you're out of your element.

However, if you're a tech person and you want to get things done and advance your career, you're going to have to get the hang of making presentations to non-tech businesspeople.

While it may be stressful and sometimes deflating, you have to get yourself in front of these people, and you have to be good at it, according to Paul Glen and Maria McManus at Leading Geeks.

"Successful geeks will be the ones who can bridge the divide between technical and business groups," Glen says. "Presenting to businesspeople is a critical part of working across disparate cultures."

Glen and McManus have drafted a thorough guide to help tech folks improve the presentation chops. Heck, it could even help businesspeople improve their presentation skills.

The guide includes steps to a great presentations, questions you can ask to help you get into your audience's heads, how to make information easy to understand, how to tell your story, how to elicit emotions and how to make a lasting connection with your audience.

You can read "A Geeks Guide to Presenting to Businesspeople" here.