Assume You Are the Only Competent, Trustworthy Person In the World

Assume nothing if you’re giving a PowerPoint presentation.

Countless times I’ve seen my own clients come to me and say Okay I’m ready to give the PowerPoint presentation.

My assistant emailed it to you let me see it on your computer.

I never got it not my problem it’s now your problem.

If you are giving a PowerPoint presentation my advice is have it on your USP stick habit on some other device email it to yourself so you can pull it off of your email if you’re somewhere have it on as many different formats as possible and bring your own laptop bring your own remote control talk to the tech people in advance if you’re speaking someplace that isn’t in your home environment.

Get there early preferably the day before certainly the morning of a presentation or at least get there an hour before so you can test.

Assume nothing.

Assume every single mechanical thing can go wrong because at some point it will.

Here’s the other thing about laptops you can say well you know I’ve got it on a stick I’ll use their laptop every laptop design is a little bit different.

And while it’s not that difficult what is difficult is trying to learn something new while you’ve got 10 50 100 or 1000 eyeballs staring at you.

You’re feeling pressure when that happens so that is the worst possible time to try to learn a new format or learn a new device or learn a new remote.

You want to use their remote.

You didn’t bring your.

And that’s okay.

Get their early practice everything that is even a little bit different is going to be harder to do if you’re doing it for the first time in front of a..

Even if it’s an audience of two people that can put pressure on you and you don’t want to force yourself into multitasking.

I can focus on speaking or I can focus on learning the new laptop or the new remote.

Very hard to do both.

So prepare in advance and take your own laptop if you take anything and everything if it’s a tool that you like.