Presenting your best: types, styles and skills for every audience
Types Formal Presenting to the board Presenting to the board of directors of a company is a formal occasion, even if that company is the hippest start up in Silicone Valley. Directors are busy people will full agendas who will not want to sit through any waffle or storytelling, so presentations will need to be well researched with accurate facts and stats delivered in a way that will be of interest to business leaders. Generally speaking, they will be thinking in a strategic rather than tactical way and therefore require high-level overviews rather than a lot of detail; that's what they pay their subordinates to deal with. Humour is probably not appropriate in this setting but could be used with discretion and if you know your audience in order to lighten the atmosphere and help deliver a difficult or complicated message if done in the right way. Pitching A pitch might include presenting an idea for an advertising campaign to a client or a product you manufacturer or s...
