DEFINING “PRESENTATION”
You've just found out you're going to be presenting a progress report to senior management. You wonder if now would be a good time to create some fictional out-of-state aunt so you could kill her off the day before and attend her funeral.
Your response is not unusual. But it is manageable.
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Here's a new definition of presentations. A presentation is any communication where you have the opportunity to think about what you're going to say before you say it.
By that definition, you're presenting all the time. You leave a message for a colleague? That's a presentation. Did you deliver the information sequentially and succinctly? You could have thought about what you were going to say before picking up the phone.
You delegate a project to a support person? Another presentation. Did you give him or her all the information they'll need to succeed? Or will they come back to you within twenty-four hours needing clarification? You could have thought about it before assigning it.
Begin to think of more and more of your communications as presentations. Then when you get up at the senior management meeting, you'll have been flexing your muscles all along and it won't feel so overwhelming.
THE ESSENTIALS MENU
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