Technical Glitches 2 - Insights From a Motivational Speaker

What to do when there is a technical glitch in the middle of your presentation?

Whether you are in the meeting room in the office delivering a powerpoint or on stage in front of thousands

when it all goes wrong

when the wheels fall off

when it’s not even your fault

you don’t

stand there gormless

you don’t point fingers

you don’t mutter under your breath

because

you chose this

no one forced you

so what you do?

be prepared

I have in my pocket a set of scrappy folded A4 sheets that I can keep the audience interested and engaged for 15 minutes.

Here’s one of the things from my sheet.

Please copy it and use it.

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Do you know why the USA will never change to the metric system?

Because an inch is as good as a mile becomes an inch is as good as 1.609 kilometres.

A pinch of salt becomes a decigram of salt.

He beat him to within an inch of his life becomes he beat him to within 2.54 cms of his life.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure becomes 28.35 grams of of prevention is worth 453.59237 grams of cure

and Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers becomes Peter Piper picked 8.81 litres of pickled peppers.

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