Assume nothing if you're giving a PowerPoint presentation, countless times I've seen my own clients come to me and say, Okay, I'm ready to give the PowerPoint presentation. My assistant emailed it to you. Let me see it on your computer like, I never got it. Not my problem. It's now your problem. If you are giving a PowerPoint presentation, my advice is have it on your USB stick, have it on some other device, email it to yourself so you can pull it off of your email if you're somewhere.

Have it on as many different formats as possible and bring your own laptop. Bring Your Own remote control. Talk to the tech people in advance. If you're speaking someplace that isn't in your home environment. Get there early, preferably the day before certainly the morning have a presentation or at least get there an hour before so you can test us Nothing assume every single mechanical thing can go wrong because at some point it will. Here's the other thing about laptops, you can say, Well, you know, I've gotten on a stick, I'll use their laptop, every laptop design is a little bit different.

And while it's not that difficult, what is difficult is trying to learn something new. While you've got 1050 100 or 1000 eyeballs staring at you, you're feeling pressure when that happens. So that is the worst possible time to try to learn a new format or learn a new device or learn a new remote. You want to use their remote you didn't bring your own. That's okay. Get there early practice everything that is even a little bit different.

It's gonna be harder to do. If you're doing it for the first time in front of an odd even if it's an audience of two people that can put pressure pressure on you. And you don't want to force yourself into multitasking, I can focus on speaking or I can focus on learning the new laptop or the new remote, very hard to do both. So prepare in advance and take your own laptop if you take anything and everything if it's a tool that you like.