Chapter 7 of 10All chapters
Chapter 7 of 10
When it goes wrong
It will, and it is survivable.
Common failures
Technology fails, you lose your place, the room is silent, someone dominates. Each has a simple recovery and none is a disaster to the audience.
- Know your talk well enough to give it with no slides.
- Losing your place: pause, look at your notes, continue. Nobody minds.
Perspective
Audiences want you to do well and notice far less than you think. The mistake you replay for a week was invisible to almost everyone in the room.