How to recover from a completely F’d presentation? Had to take over for the presenter who had connection issues and... it did not go well. Gonna be kicking myself into next year over this one, especially in light of the promo...

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Focus on the next one, kill it and make a joke about your prior presentation. It’s pretty common than you would think

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You will recover. Happens to the best. Learn from it and move forward - don't let to ruin your day/week or life.

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Had multiple SMs, the client’s entire leadership, and the partner on there. The one time I drop the ball...

You will be getting your ass whooped by the PPMD!

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Bold of you to assume I haven’t gotten the pings already

I have seen it happen, it has happened to me. Do a kick ass presentation next time and make them remember that and they will know today was a one time thing.

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Everyone makes mistakes. Focus on what you could done differently. Maybe state the call should be rescheduled if all of the context is with one person.

Or do your homework next time and be prepared if you are the backup..

Other mishaps will happen, just learn from your mistakes and don’t repeat the same ones 😁

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Learn from it.

Don't ever walk into a situation like that unprepared again. You might lose anyway if you come up with some lame excuse to reschedule, but you -might- get a pass if you do come back with a strong performance on return. If you knowingly walk in unprepared that's even worse than a no-show. You're probably dead if you no show, you're definitely dead if you flub it.

Shooting from the hip is never a good idea, even if you're the world's expert in something, you should still prep.

Also shame on that "key man" for not having an adequate contingency plan for connection issues. At minimum they should have had slides distributed that they could talk to (even if it was supposed to be a demo, screenshots are better than nothing), and should have trained a backup colleague to at least be able to speak to those slides. They should have more than one internet connection option if they know they're going to be the key presenter.

At the end of the day you'll probably live. Admit your failure, maybe even try to maintain a sense of humor about it, and do better next time.

Progress not perfection.

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