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Some may assume that employees spend weeks carefully crafting their PowerPoint presentation to wow their boss, interest a client or deliver insightful training to colleagues.
However, research by Buffalo 7 revealed that 20% of employees start their work presentations by telling a joke or delay getting started on it to begin with, using the excuse that ‘it won’t take long’ to do.
The study of 1,000 UK office workers found that 19% begin rehearsing their presentation less than a week in advance, with one of the most complex questions when it comes to delivering a presentation regarding about where to start.
But the difficulties aren’t exclusive to the presentation preparation. 33% found themselves having to make last minute changes, 27% spotted a typo on one of the slides whilst they were presenting and 18% discovered that members of their audience did not understand the information that they were trying to deliver.
