HELLO there!
Exciting news! I was approached by my boss this morning asking if I would like to do a 20 minute presentation at our regional sales meeting next week on what I am learning through all my recent experiences and training. YES INDEED, I would. I am so excited to do my first presentation for my coworkers that I almost jumped for joy.
I have always loved presentations, having done dozens through school and case competitions and have always excelled at public speaking. People don't scare me. Papers (or rather having to research for them) scare me. So given the choice I would prefer to present rather than produce a report. So I will be doing my presentation on a few key sales items I have learned from my 95% share marketing experience and the course I am current doing PRECISE selling. Don't worry, I will give credit where credit is due - my second slide specifically details whose ideas I am playing off of and where they were originally published/presented.
I don't plan to simply regurgitate. I plan to interpret, apply and explain these key ideas for people who may never have come across anything like it otherwise. The short presentation will also give me an opportunity to introduce myself in a grandiose way to my co-workers here in the west. I know this will not be the last presentation I do in my career, so its best to get everyone acquainted with my style right off the bat.
I must say though as I started to work on this presentation that PowerPoint 2003 is seriously slowing me down. I am used to working with 2007, having used it all through school on personal computers but corporate technology for some reason is slightly more archaic. So I may have to bring in my personal computer tomorrow to get this done more effectively.
I feel as thought this presentation is another wrung to be climbed on my corporate ladder, one that I am all to ready to get at...In great shoes. (Today in a previously photographed pair of heeled leather boots.)
