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I still rehearse all the time as a SM. Helps to get thoughts organized and be concise / not be long winded. Have seen MDs rehearse before orals and big presentations too.
Yes, you should at least practice yourself even if the other team members don’t want to participate. I would also recommend putting together a talk track to make sure everyone knows when they’re supposed to speak, especially for more important meetings like sales calls or RFP response pitches. I have done this many times with senior leadership to go through Client meetings. Do you want to look smooth and we’ll put together in front of the client and practice is important.
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Wow thanks. I thought I was alone and behind on practicing my lines as a Senior and everyone had just gotten so used to it. It felt like an uphill battle for me but seeing that folks still practice and prep is helpful. I’m going to keep practicing.
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Yes, I've been leading workshops, presenting webinars, delivering training, etc for ~10 years now and I still take notes and look through my talking points for anything outside of meetings. It took me a good year or two to only be nervous for a minute after I started instead of the whole time. Keep practicing, it gets better but even meetings take time. Not my favorite thing in the world but I kinda enjoy it and consistently get great feedback.
The good ones still do. Others not so much and tend to suffer from foot-in-mouth disease
I’m a SM and I don’t rehearse because I don’t need to. I know lots of people who do. It’s normal and there’s nothing wrong with it. We all learn and retain information differently and have different public speaking comfort levels
Everyone who is good, practices. Just in different ways. No one should walk into any meeting not knowing what they want to accomplish and what they plan to say. In may be standing infront of a mirror saying it out loud or mentally going over their notes. It's still practice. Just as some people are visual learners, some auditory, some kinetic, people have different ways of practicing/ prepping for presentations.
Also prepare...what if client says? She/he objects to this? Have something drafted so you don't get ruffled...[ i used to sell to Sam Zell early i my IBM career so u needed to be bulletproof!]
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Nothing wrong with being prepared. Thats either their egos talking (most likely) or they miss stuff in their presentations.
It really depends on the subject matter, and how comfortable you are with it.
I’m M4 at D and came from another Consulting firm where I was M for 3 yrs, so 7 yrs in M, don’t judge me and I still don’t go into a meeting without knowing what I want to achieve, how I want to steer it, what points I want to put across.
I do not practice it word by word, but I go there with an agenda and a plan, unless it is a workshop I know like the back of my hand, and Im trying to help a Sr Con run it.
Always rehearse
I always rehearse and even memorize a handful of top sound bites to spit out at the right times
I think between years 4 and 5 of working in consulting (out of college) is when I really made the leap from writing everything out and practicing aloud to having a general idea and mentally preparing.
Always
20+ years here, i would always rehearse but with high demand clients like McD we went from production to pitch with 20 mins and drink of water on regular basis
This ⏫️ It's the ability to compress the timeline that gets better with experience.
Yes absolutely I do.
Eh, some time in my last year of being a senior. Constantly presenting made it basically a knee jerk reaction at some point. My briefings are all mostly upcycled slides and improv at this point.
It’s a skill that you improve like any other. I normally like to have a structure in my head of key points I want to hit.
I did stop having to rehearse a while back, though. Only need to do it for something like a steerco
As they say, an amateur practises until they get it right; a professional practises until they can't get it wrong
I always practiced since new business is often a learning experience and having a few colleagues join in the rehearsal is often informative