The first thing you and your team had to do before planning your whole presentation is to step back a minute and ask yourself, what is the actual goal of this presentation? What action? Do we want the audience members to do after our presentation is over. Now, if you're giving a new business pitch, you want to contract or you want them to at least ask you for a formal proposal. So I know this sounds obvious, and you're maybe thinking Oh, so all the information will be this basic in this class. But I've seen countless, countless group presentations, where you just get lost.

I mean, it's like they're trying to tell you every single thing about their business that's happened every week for 29 straight quarters, and people are kind of left saying, huh. And you've got to have that clarity at the beginning. What is it you want people to do and work back from that as opposed to telling people every single thing your organization does and What every single division does, so start with that. Try to write it down in one sentence. What's the goal of this group presentation