I’ve delivered a couple presentations over the past few weeks that in work terms were “big” — not in terms of the number of slides of course, but in telling the story clearly. In preparation, I rewatched a couple videos by David JP Phillips, a speaker… and speaker about speaking. Here he is from 8 years ago about the science of storytelling”
And if that’s released the “angel’s cocktail” of chemicals into your brain, you might want to go deeper with an earlier video about how to avoid Death by PowerPoint, the MS Office app that at one point comes for us all:
So, happy presenting if it’s in your future. May you get away from the bad habits of too many managers — and may your messages be clear and engaging.