How To Beat Those PowerPoint Nerves

I was talking to a friend recently and he told me about how nervous he was as he set about giving his first ever PowerPoint presentation to an audience. Luckily he had an ally, a former workmate and close friend who agreed to act as a friendly fifth column right in the heart of his audience. The arrangement was that if the friend in the audience thought that the presentation was going on a bit, he would 'accidentally' drop his pen onto the floor. This would be a clear signal for the presenter to wind things up. With this arrangement in place it came to the actual presentation. My friend stood nervously in front of the audience. "Good afternoon, and thank you all for coming," he said. As soon as these words had left his mouth he heard the pen drop. He laughs about it now but at the time he could have flattened his so-called mate.

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