My presentation was both sad and funny. I thought i had around 35-40 minutes worth of material based on my trial runs; for a 45 minute session with some time for Q & A, thought i would be okay. After going thru the entire presentation in 20 minutes, i found myself in a quandary: stop and make them come back for the second half in the next session (which, most likely, they would not have done) or just keep going into the material for the next session. I kept going, running thru the material for the second session in about 10 minutes.
My co-workers, at least, found my humor entertaining. I’m told there is a recording of the presentation. :-)
I won’t make the same mistakes next year. This year was kind of a fluke because i had no idea what to talk about when i submitted the proposals. Now i do. That was half the battle. Next time i’ll dry run with the staff first; hopefully that’ll help with the time management issue.
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