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Presentation skills.

"Now let's walk through slide 67...'50 ways to make your presentation more exciting'."

'Great Powerpoint, garcon - i'll have the fish!'

"Any word back from the TED conference?"

'A simple, 'profits are up', would have sufficed.'

"Ray says he serves his homemade wine this way for the presentation, but believe me, it's because it improves the taste."

May I Speak?

The First Powerpoint

'Welcome to the magic and the mystery that is Henry's powerpoint presentation.'

"Wow! That's some PowerPoint presentation."

'They're my presentation trousers.'

They loved the presentation on competing in the marketplace.

"You call this a presentation?! I knew I shouldn't work with children or animals!"

"Let me give you the bullet points!"

Performance anxiety lessons, the more you practice something.

"I show and tell them just enough to keep them wanting more."

"I'm going to bombard you with graphs until you agree with me."

'And were there a point to your proposal, Henderson - What would it be?'

"I was hoping this presentation would be more interesting upside down."

Brian wanted to call the presentation "Synergy". Paula wanted to call it "Cooperation". They could never agree.

"You're losing the audience. Switch to the Powerpoint presentation."

'When we get there let me do the double talking.'

'Which 'win' is ours? Because the one on the left looks bigger.'

Can't Do the Math/Won't Do the Math.

"Now that I have everyone's attention..."

"The trend in tough economic times is to put off everything that doesn't require immediate action ? as this chart shows."

"I'm razzled, but not dazzled."

"Unfortunately, the consumer was not as demanding as we had hoped."

"Hmmm ... that's interesting. Now, what about ideas that don't suck - do you have any of those?"

"A dozen eggs and a pint of semi-skimmed...Sorry, looks like I left my presentation in my other coat."

"Fantastic presentation! All of the investors loved it."

"Three weeks until the pitch, LOADS of time!"

"I don't believe I've missed a single sign since you made the switch to Power Point."

How to deliver a successful presentation.

"Who wants to hear a funny story about the third quarter?"