Your Presentation Best

I'll Give You A Stinkin' Reason to Listen! I'ts Revolution Time! And here's what you get if you join me.... One of the most common questions I get in my presentation workshops is this:   How do I get and keep my audiences attention? Essentially, it's hard to do unless you give them a very good reason to be interested. Almost aways, this means giving them something that is in their own self interest. What are you giving them that makes their lives better? What are you offering that they can apply and get results from? Why would you listen if you were in their shoes? If you can't answer these questions, you can't blame them for tuning you out. Everybody has a million things on their minds competeing for thier attention. If you bring no concrete value; if they don't clearly see the benefit; it's  Game Over. The take-Away is this:  make sure your presentation is a conversation about them. Understand their priorities, needs, and problems .

Do You Have A Plan B? This is it .  The most important presentation of your career.  You and your team have been preaparing for it for weeks. Your PowerPoint deck is optimised and ready to go. Your senior management is seated and waiting. Just as you are about to begin, your laptop crashes. You smell smoke.  You start to sweat. Time seems to have stopped. Everyone is staring at you, waiting... Is this Presentation Armageddon? What do you do?   What's your Plan B ?   Can you deliver without your PowerPoint? I hope this never happens to you, but it could.  If you are too reliant on your slides (and I've worked with a lot of managers who are), this is a nightmare scenario. For far too many corporate presenters, the presentation is all about PowerPoint, and they are lost without their slides. This means  PowerPoint is the Master , and  the presenter is the Servant. If this is you, stop letting your slide deck dictate your presentation delivery. Create your message first