9. Giving the Presentation

The funny thing about presentations is that you do lots of work to create your presentation and make it look good, and when you’re done the real job hasn’t even started yet—you still have to give the presentation. For some people, giving a presentation (and public speaking in general) ranks in popularity just this side of dental surgery. Other folks like nothing better than standing in front of an audience. Most of us, however, fall somewhere between those extremes.

Luckily, people have been speaking in front of groups for thousands of years, and there is a lot of good advice about what you can do to make giving a presentation ...

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