QUESTION 9
HOW DO I DELIVER A REALLY EFFECTIVE PRESENTATION?
Why it’s important: Increasingly managers are required to make presentations to their staff and other managers. Presentations are also becoming common components of many job interviews.
For some reason the thought of speaking in public terrifies many managers. I’ve known some excellent managers who would rather go swimming naked in a shoal of jellyfish than make a presentation. Yet if ever there was an instance of good planning preventing poor performance then presentations are it.
Prepare well and any presentation is a doddle. Why? Because the focus of a presentation is the presenter and their views, beliefs or opinions. It is the presenter who determines the structure and content of ...
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