Recently one of my one on one executive manager clients mentioned that he regularly sees his colleagues – when presenting to senior audiences – ‘cram too much information’ into their allotted speaking time.
Here are the results of cramming in too much information:
Picture this. You’re about to present to a roomful of executives senior to you. How can you ‘stamp your ownership’ on the room?
Here’s one way…
(1) Get to the room early and ‘walk’ the room.
That is, walk from the middle front of the room to the right front corner of the room. Look back to the middle front of the room and imagine your voice ‘traveling’ to that corner. Then walk to the back right corner of the room. Turn around and imagine your voice traveling from the front of the room to that corner. Walk to the back left corner. Look back to the front and do the imagining. Walk to the front left corner; Look to the front and do the imagining.
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One of the way to score yourself, after you’ve delivered a presentation to a group of senior executives, is to ask yourself this question:
That’s it.
Aim to improve your strike-rate in being able to confidently answer “Yes” to the above question.
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First, let me acknowledge, that with last week’s cyber attack on Optus, Chief Executive Officer, Kelly Bayer-Rosmarin faced an unprecedented, extremely difficult event.
Against the benchmark of the affect, body language, speech and language of a credible, believable, self-assured CEO of a major enterprise, presenting to the media regarding a significant crisis – I scored Bayer-Rosmarin’s performance in her 23:55 minute, 23 September press conference as: 6/10.
Overall, the affect of Bayer-Rosmarin’s presentation of herself and communication of her ideas was disengaged, lacking presence and lacking customer empathy.
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