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Essentials of presentation - 102

P ower of the spoken word Picture this. You are outside the examination hall. You are doing the all- too-familiar last minute cramming. Your mind is sore. And you need to quickly process a concept. What do you do? You simply walk up to your friend who has already internalised it and you ask him/her to summarise. Surprise! Surprise! What you thought which was hitherto difficult to understand, much less process, is suddenly so simple to understand. That is the power of the spoken word. This is precisely what your audience expects from you, the resident expert. Your audience cannot process the finer details right off the bat. They need the big picture, and they need you to deliver it to them. Don't give them everything. They can't take it all. The ones who need more, would get it anyway, from Google or from you; during Q&A. That way, you only give what is relevant to each one of them. I am based out of Hyderabad. Get in touch with me for making your presentations be...