We spent the last two episodes honing our Executive Presence skills. In this episode, we're focusing on the actual visual presentation.

In our opinion, there are 3 steps you can implement to be successful:

1. Plan: Before you open up PPT, figure out who you're speaking to, what they need to know, what you're hoping to accomplish with them, and storyboard those details out.
2. Build: Create your presentation in PPT (or something similar). Use a template that's been successful before to avoid creating more work for yourself. Consider colors, design, animation, data, graphics, text size, etc. Make it easy for you and your audience to see and consume the slide.
3. Practice: Put your deck in slide show mode and actually go through it. Say it out loud. Make sure your design elements complement the story you need to share. Make sure everything shows up in the order you want. A dry run is always a good idea.

The keys to success aren't hard. But we can't skip or leave out steps when we want to perform well.