You're polishing your presentation skills, you're going to give a presentation. Why? What is it you want your audience to do? Well, I have to tell them everything we've done the last No. Too many people make the mistake of never really asking themselves before they start the whole process of creating presentations, perhaps slide decks, perhaps notes, writing out, typing out speeches, they never really asked themselves, what is it? I want my audience to do.

So right now, I want you to think of some presentation you have to give, whether it's in the work world, school, business, public life, civic life, think of a particular presentation, and I want you to write down in one sentence. What is it you want your audience to do? I want you to put that in the q&a section. And think about that. As we'll be building out this presentation that you get to pick, but the starting point is right here the starting point is, what is it you want your audience to do? Do you want them to vote for you for president, invest in your company, approve a budget, go out on it.

And this is not a class on dating, but you could give a presentation on why someone should go out on a date with you. That's a type of presentation. I want you to be as highly specific as possible. Everything we do is going to be focused on this end goal. We're going to back up from this goal and try to get to it. That is the way effective presenters work they focus on the goal.

So before we do anything else, I need you to go to the q&a section and write down type up for everyone to see the topic. You're working On, that you'll be presenting on but then what is the goal? What is the one thing you want your audience to do? After hearing you present to them