מתנה: הצ'ק ליסט הסודי שיחסוך לכם תקלות במצגת הבאה (pdf)

Mistakes in the middle of a presentation happen to everyone.
Remember Bill Gates' big flop at the 'Blue Screen of Death' presentation?

The internet world certainly remembers…

For those who are too young, back in 1998 Bill Gates, the CEO of Microsoft at the time, launched his new masterpiece, then in the middle of the demo the screen suddenly froze and switched to a humiliating error message. if you watch in the video You can hear the embarrassed Gates saying "oops".

So Bill Gates is not alone - anyone who has ever participated in a presentation knows that technical glitches are inevitable, and the only question is whether you managed to catch enough of them before the presentation so that they don't happen to you on stage
But where do you start checking?

The number of possible errors is dizzying: the projector does not connect to the computer, the mouse that changes slides moves them upside down, the presentation you sent yourself by email is the draft and not the final one, the room is too dark, or not dark enough, and so on.

But there is also a solution. In the last few months, we compiled a long list of all the mishaps that happened to us and our students, and to the people our students watched, and today our course includes a special lesson on how to protect yourself from mishaps, and how to deal with them when they do happen. These techniques greatly improved the quality of our graduates' presentations - and also their quality of life, at least in terms of fear of the crowd.

For those who haven't been to the course in the last month,
We have a gift

As part of that lesson we give the students a condensed form of all the main categories of faults that can happen, with specific instructions on what to check. Because as soon as you know where to look for the faults, you discover that it is possible to cover almost all possible faults with ten simple tests.

So if you want to save yourself the trouble next time, download this form, print it and bring it with you every time you go to make a presentation.

And if you want to tell us about other glitches that we didn't know about, then we'd love to hear from you in the comments below.

And another little tip: If you are making a presentation in a new place, you should send this form to the person in charge of the hall at that place two or three days before the presentation. will save you a lot of trouble.