Please Rehearse Your Presentation

Any professional who expects to excel at an activity must take it seriously. That's why:

• Elite athletes condition themselves and practice their sport endlessly, picking up thousands of reps to build muscle memory.
• Special operations forces train on the same few actions relentlessly, often thousands of times to ingrain their instant reactions.
• Emergency room doctors go deep in crisis medicine training to deal with an unending line of unexpected traumas.

High-stakes Presentations

While giving business presentations is not nearly as critical or heroic as these professions, leaders have a lot on the line with important speaking events. The ability to communicate is often the one factor that makes or breaks their careers.

And given the stress and anxiety that many people feel during high-stakes presentations, they might actually have the feeling of life or death situations.

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