11 Ways to Improve an 'Assigned' Presentation

1. You've been given a slide deck and told 'deliver this'. But it's pretty awful.
2. Run through it a couple of times on your own. What's its natural timing? Where is it awful/clunky/boring?
3. Replace a slide or two with a story.
4. Replace a slide or two with a picture.
5. Replace a slide or two with an interactive exercise.
6. Now create a powerful start: maybe some startling figures which reveal the depth of the problem.
7. Now ensure there is a Q&A before
8. Your powerful summary and
9. Your call to action: what is it you want the audience to do differently having invested this time with you?
10. Now read this and this
11. Repeat 2. Adjust. Deliver. Learn. 

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