Question, how do you guys deal with screwing up an important presentation for clients in front of your superior? asking for a friend
Here is how the presentation went (without excuses), and here are my key takeaways. Here's how I intend to do on the next one now that I have experience from the presentation. Here's how I plan to achieve my intention. Fast-forward to each step in the plan. Here's how I executed my plan. Fast-forward to the next presentation. Here's how I kicked ass in the next presentation. Command the conversation away from what just happened by discussing it in terms of implications for the future. Set yourself up for success by taking control of the future outcome.
"I don't like the way that went down because X. Next time I'm going to focus on Y because Z." Everyone fucks up. The trick is to visibly and demonstrably learn from your fuckups. Niels Bohr Hey, you're a consultant now, aren't you? Technically speaking? You need my consultant joke, which I told every time I met with a contractor or owner because I was young and they were resentful.An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
I believe that you don't have to learn from your own mistakes and it's perfectly fine to learn from someone else's. What matters though, is understanding that something went wrong. Accepting being wrong. Understanding what is wrong. That is w g at matters.
It's funny that rationally, I know it's obviously true, but since it doesn't jive with my perfectionism it doesn't feel true for me. (Which is also naive, I know.) Cognitive dissonance's a bitch. Loll'ed at the consultant joke. Still relevant.Everyone fucks up.
