Strategies for Presentations: Prepare for Disasters

00:00 You are never truly prepared for a PowerPoint presentation unless you are prepared to give your presentation without the PowerPoint bulbs burn out.

00:11 Computers malfunction.

00:13 Electricity goes away.

00:15 You still got to present your ideas.

00:17 And that's why it's critical for you to realize you're not actually giving a PowerPoint presentation any more than I'm giving an electricity presentation right now. I'm using electricity.

00:27 I'm using lights.

00:28 But this isn't a light presentation.

00:31 So you've got to realize at some point accidents will happen.

00:35 I've seen it happen to Steve Jobs when he was alive.

00:38 I've seen it happen to Bill Gates when they're in the middle of a PowerPoint presentation and all of a sudden the screen goes blank, something malfunctions. You don't want to be one of these people who's, you know, I can't give my presentation. I'm really sorry.

00:52 You need to just continue talking.

00:55 And that's why I recommend having on a single sheet of paper the notes so you can cover everything you want to say in that presentation.

01:04 Without the slides, you are never prepared.

01:08 You're never truly prepared to give a PowerPoint presentation unless you're ready to give it. Without the PowerPoint, you have to simply be able to explain your ideas with words, examples, case studies, and stories.