Monday, 16 April 2012

Prevent a disaster in a group presentation

Among so many things that have to be considered when delivering a group presentation, the worst case scenario is someone not showing up. Your presentation is rehearsed perfectly, you agreed on meeting an hour early to prepare, but there are some instances where someone could not make it somehow.

Now you need a plan B for this kind of scenario.

For once, all presenters should be familiar with the topic of each one. But it might be to complex for everybody to know every part. Here is what you could do:
- partner with one of your team members and exchange notes on the presentation at least one day before
- at least read through the notes of your partner a couple of times and ask any questions that are unclear

This won't take much time and nobody will expect you to know the others part perfectly, but you can impress anybody by stepping in and delivering the part.

So take a couple of minutes to exchange each others notes and familiarize yourself with each others part. If it should happen that someone can't make it, your presentation won't be at stake.

Have a good week!

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