1.Make it shorter. No extra points for filling your time.
2.Be really clear about what its for. If the presentation works, what will change? Who will be changed? Will people take a different course of action because of your work? If not, then why do you do a presentation?
3.Dont use slides as a teleprompter. If you have details, write them up in a short memo and give it to us after the presentation.
4.Dont sing, dont dance, dont tell jokes. If those three skills are foreign to you, this is not a good time to try them out.
5.Be here now. The reason youre giving a presentation and not sending us a memo is that your personal presence, your energy and your humanity add value. Dont hide them. Dont use a prescribed format if that format doesnt match the best version of you.
And a bonus: the best presentation is one you actually give. Dont hide. Dont postpone it. We need to hear from you.
A presentation is expensive. Its many of us, in real time, in sync, all watching you do your thing. If youre going to do it live, make it worth it. For us and for you.