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When you want to deliver interesting presentations that impress everyone
Most presentations sure are dull, aren’t they? Awful slides, monotonous delivery, zero engagement, some – as we discussed in the last chapter – even discuss the wrong thing!
This means it should be pretty easy for yours to stand out. This chapter shows a very simple way to ensure they do.
Firstly, since you want to interest others, start by thinking about what others find interesting. For instance, they like:
- Interactivity – pretty much everyone would rather join in a dialogue than listen to someone talk at them
- Interesting stories
- Brevity
- Fun
- To learn something new
- Good visuals
- To achieve something important
- Interesting quotations
- Variety
Then expand this list by adding the opposite ...
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