Peter,
I'll give it a try, because you wrote so many good point about it. Are you a sales rep? :-))
Joroho,
so go and dance - it'll be your performence and definitely not an industry standard.
Fun aside: you CAN do this in front of a large audience, it's simple. Can you do it with one of your team members? If yes, think about the difference between a one-to-one basis and a large audience - none, if you just pick ONE single face in the masses and act as if you would explain or present it to that single person. After 10 minutes, focus on another face and so on.
BTW, I used to be a good ballroom dancer as well - silver award :-) in standard (waltz, vienna waltz, fox etc.) Unfortunately, our trainer did not speak English, so he used all the German expressions, and I don't know how to translate them....
Maybe this experience will encourage you:
Three years ago I visited my hometown and talked to the CEO of a large bank. After a while, he told me if I could do him a favor: they set up a presentation about 'The benefits of the Online World', but the specialist who should do the presenation was sick. If I could jump in? I said 'Yes, of course', give me some time. He replied: You've got 30 minutes. I stared at him in disbelief, but since I already agreed, I said ok, I'll grab that chance.
He gave me a room to straighten my thoughts and to prepare a bullet list. Then the limousine drove us to the convention center, a bit late, we walked through the long and never ending floors and halls, and finally he pushed open a door and said: Welcome to your audience, I'll introduce you. Guess what: there were more than 500 bigshots sitting in that hall, expecting a brilliant presentation. I recognized politicians, well known CEO's, marketing cracks etc. And I started sweating, because all I had was my bullet list and a hughe overhead projektor I have never seen before, not knowing how to operate it. But there was no time at all, so I just asked about the basics...
To make the long story short: When I finished, the applause was overwhelming, and I realized that I spent 3 and a half hours on this presentation. And then the personal interviews and post presentation discussions started. Good God, that was kind of an experience.
Now just imagine what would have happened if I would have been used to PP & co only ...
2 weeks later the local marketing association awarded my the silver key of the city for an outstanding presentation (I guess they did it because we've never talked about a fee for my services, and to be honest, I didn't even have the time to think about asking for some money).
And I am convinced you could have done the same if the topic would have been something about finance, right?
Go for it. It's easier than you can imagine.
jens
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