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In this podcast, we finish our conversation on answering questions during a presentation.
If you've ever given a presentation, you've probably been asked to leave time for questions. You may have even gone the extra step of thinking about what questions might you get. However, in our experience, 80% of the managers we've coached haven't, but maybe you're in the 20% category.
This cast concludes our conversation on how to choose the right chart for your data and message in a presentation.
This cast describes how to choose the right chart for your data and message in a presentation.
Presentations are just like management - everybody has to know how to do them well ... but nobody is getting taught the right way. It's as if Kafka invented both of them, and we are left with only the dread. Even Toastmasters doesn't do a great job on slide use in presentations.
For the holidays, we're re-releasing one of our Hall of Fame casts ... the Pre-wire. This cast describes a way to prepare for meetings or presentations where you need to persuade.
The manager that doesn't have to make at least one presentation each week is fairly rare. Today, we
This cast describes the second part in our series how to think about being persuasive in a presentation.
It's been over a year since we first talked about presentations, and we only talked about one very narrow aspect of presentations: the use and mis-use of PowerPoint. Sure, PowerPoint is important, but even if you master it, your presentations can still be terrible. (Whether you read your slides to your audience or not.)