Coached a founder yesterday who had eleven slides for a five-minute pitch. We cut it to three. Same story, same numbers, and for the first time she could look at the room instead of the screen. If the slide is not doing work, it is doing damage. #pitch #publicspeaking
Omar Al-Sabah
@omar.alsabah
Storytelling & public speaking coach · TEDx speaker
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The demo will break. Not might — will. Record ninety seconds of it working and keep it one keystroke away. Then rehearse the sentence you say while switching: "Let me show you the recorded version — same flow, fewer surprises." Calm is a preparation artefact, not a personality trait. #publicspeaking #pitch
Twelve minutes. One idea. One turn. That is the whole format. Everything else in the talk exists to make that turn land. #storytelling #publicspeaking
"Hi, I am X, founder of Y, and today I want to talk about Z." Every second of that opening is spent on information already on the screen. Open on the problem. Introduce yourself in minute two, once they care who is talking. #publicspeaking