Make Presentations Less Intimidating by Breaking Them Down Into Smaller Chunks
Presenting is a bit stressful for many of us, but in the Harvard Business Review, they suggest that one way to make things a little better is to break the presentation down into smaller, more memorable pieces.
When planning your presentation, your instinct may be to collect everything into one big, long stream of information, but Harvard Business Review thinks it’s best to break it down into chunks:
Create rest stops. Three weeks before my first three-hour presentation, I was having a hard time digesting my lunch. How could I not lose my place for so long? Later I found that while a 180-minute presentation may seem like an insurmountable minefield, a 10-minute series seems more doable. I started organizing my stuff into smaller chunks that logically built on top of each other.
Most of us don’t have three hour presentations (thankfully), but this principle makes sense even for short presentations. A ten minute presentation is much easier to manage if it is broken down into two minute chunks, and this allows you to organize and reorganize more easily.
6 Ways To Reduce Presentation Stress | Harvard Business Review