CHAPTER 7

Presenting Tips

Good to Great

Now it’s time to apply those tricks of the trade, in other words, things that ramp up your presentation still further. Incidentally, all those other books written by extroverts—for extroverts—start here. This is about stage techniques that we introverts can apply only after we’ve done the solid foundation work of the previous steps in the process. Let’s take the actions in the sequence they will happen on the big day.

To start, in all likelihood you will be introduced at the beginning of your presentation. If you do nothing about this, the chairperson of the meeting will probably read your profile in the meeting program, or worse they will make something up. Don’t let this happen. We can all be described ...

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