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In this video, I am going to talk about Michael Bay's three big mistakes every presenter must
avoid. Michael Bay is admittedly one of the biggest
Hollywood directors in the entire world. However, he recently gave a presentation at
CES for Samsung and he really messed it up. So number one thing that he did wrong was
relying on technology. He used a Teleprompter, which is okay but
it didn't work so what happened after that? Well, he basically gave up on the entire presentation.
He lost his place, got embarrassed and then said I can't continue and he just walked off
the stage. This was a huge mistake because it's just
like if you were to write out your entire presentation onto your PowerPoint slides and
then suddenly have the computer fail or the software suddenly fail during your presentation.
Big, big, big problem. Number two.
His second big mistake was not preparing his own material.
Just from watching him, it was obvious that he was reading from a script that he didn't
prepare himself. And how I know it wasn't his own material
was because once he had that problem, if it was his own material, he could have continued
on by speaking from his own experience, by speaking from his own passion about a topic
he is obviously interested in: movies. Now this is kind of like if you asked someone
else, like me, to prepare your presentation but you didn't offer any input.
And you didn't try to make the presentation your own, which is what Michael didn't do.
He didn't own the presentation material. The third and final big mistake that he made
was he didn't care about the audience. Even though he was looking at the audience,
he clearly wasn't talking to them. He was talking at them.
He obviously didn't care about what the audience wanted to hear.
And he obviously didn't care about engaging the audience.
This is like if you assumed the audience Will automatically care about what you want to
say just because you're the expert, or you're the CEO or you're a big time Hollywood director.
You must always think about, first of all, "What does the audience want to hear?"
So there you go. That was Michael Bay's three big mistakes
every presenter must avoid. Mistake number one was relying on technology.
Mistake number two was not preparing his own material.
And finally, mistake number three was not caring about the audience.