CHAPTER 3: ATTRIBUTES OF GOOD AND BAD PRESENTATIONS
You’ve attended presentations, so you know that some were worth listening to and some wasted your time. Some energized you and some could have cured insomnia. Some capture your attention in the first few minutes. Some, well, you get the picture.
What makes some presentations better than others? This chapter answers this question and helps you determine what you want to do, or avoid doing, in your own presentations.
An example of a good and bad presentation
Contrast two presenters, Audrey and Bradley. I met Audrey, a consultant to CIOs, when we were guest speakers at an IT off-site meeting. She told me people would be blown away by her presentation and she’d get them thinking in ways they had ...
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