In Summary: Pay Attention to Staging, a Major Success Factor

Staging of presentations often gets cavalier treatment as speakers get swept up in developing and preparing presentations. If the arrangements and operations are taken care of, and all aspects are polished with well-done rehearsals, these help get the message across. If not taken care of, they can prevent the message from being heard, and the medium may dominate the message.

For final reinforcement, here is a poem compendium of mostly true snafus that have befallen many colleagues. They laugh about them now. They didn't at the time.

ODE TO MURPHY

It's away to Washington for a major pitch,

A Winning Presentation and they'll all be rich.

They've busted their fannies to lay out their ...

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