Presenting & Persuasion

Column IV. Every lesson leaves you with a working thing.

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PS-07L2Handling Q&A — Including Questions You Can't Answer→ A Q&A prep sheet: your five most likely hard questions with answers, plus your scripts for the ones you can't answer PS-06L1Managing Presentation Anxiety, Technically→ A tested pre-talk routine and a memorised, drilled first thirty seconds PS-03L2Narrative Structure: Why Stories Outlast Facts→ One real message, pitch or section rebuilt as a story with a clear structure — a before/after showing the difference PS-10L2Persuasion in Writing: Email, Proposal, Application→ One real persuasive message rebuilt on the structure, with a before/after and a single clear ask PS-04L2★Presenting Data: Which Chart When, and When No Chart At All→ A chart decision table, and one of your own charts rebuilt with a headline and honest axes PS-11L3Running Meetings and Panels→ An agenda and facilitation plan for one real meeting, run once, with decisions and owners captured PS-08L3★Selling an Idea in Three Minutes→ A recorded three-minute pitch, timed, plus a scored self-review of the playback PS-02L1★Six Rules for Slides (and PowerPoint's Bad Defaults)→ One real slide, redesigned — before and after — following the six rules PS-05L2Stage Mechanics: Voice, Posture, Pace, Pauses, Eye Contact→ A recorded two-minute delivery, scored on the five mechanics, with your worst one drilled and re-recorded PS-09L3The Mechanics of Persuasion: Evidence, Credibility, Pre-empting Objections→ An argument map for a real position: claim, evidence, the strongest objection, and your answer PS-01L1★The Skeleton of a Talk: Message → Structure → Slides, In That Order→ A one-page talk plan: one message, three sections, and a slide list you haven't built yet