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Start your shortlistee presentation preparation checklist with the following basics:
- Is everybody versed in how to get to the venue, travel times and contingency considerations e.g. traffic issues?
- What is the process or expected norm for introductions (a) upon arrival, and (b) preceding the actual presentation?
- What equipment is available? Are our presentation tools compatible?
- What additional, non-technology, equipment do we need, and who will provide this? If the client will provide this, is what’s in their mind the same thing as what’s in our mind? Check that what we call certain items and tools is the same as they call them.
- What’s the policy on hand-outs?
- Is the time allocation loose or concrete? Have we timed ourselves?
- What’s the Q&A protocol? Do we have everyone on board to attend that might be needed in a Q&A situation?
- How will we be expected to wrap up?
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