The origins of the most common presentation pitfalls fall into one of three categories:
- planning mistakes
- design mistakes
- delivery mistakes
An error in the planning stage will create trickle down effects and lead to design and delivery mishaps.
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Presentation pitfalls fall into these 3 categories:
Planning pitfalls
- Spraying and praying
- Deaf, dumb and blind
- Copy-and-paste preparation
- Do-nothings
- Key message confusion
Design pitfalls
- PointPoint® addiction
- Data junkie
- Environmental disaster
- Force feeding
Delivery pitfalls
- Assuming boring must be boring
- Winging it
- Death grip security
- Twitch and itch
- Failure to repeat yourself
- Answering the question asked
- Elephant sightings
- Running overtime
- Over-apologizing
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