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I’m so pissed off right now that I can barely form a coherent sentence. However, I’m going to attempt to formulate several sentences so that I don’t murder someone tomorrow.
Background: Presentation to 300+ partners, with the majority being Director level and above. Pending public speaking nerves, presentation content is fairly simple as it’s being taken from things you’ve been doing for eight months. In addition, I sent over all the information that needed to be included. Aka, all you had to do was format the information, add some pictures and spice it up. Easy. Easy as in a monkey could do it.
Setting, Present Day: As a fleeting, extra precautionary thought, I request to see the final slides. How could they possibly be wrong; a monkey could have put them together. What happened when I opened the presentation? I think I died, had a heart attack, screamed, threw a few things and then went to work on completely redoing the entire presentation… exactly what I had time to do this week.
I don’t know, maybe I’m extra sensitive to formatting issues. But, to me, a presentation is a reflection of yourself and moreover, it’s a reflection of the company you work for. Wouldn’t you want to do anything and everything possible to make that presentation flawless and thus put your best foot forward?
Besides the TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, HORRENDOUSLY AWFUL formatting errors, they didn’t even use the information I provided! In addition, they’ve been on the account for eight months; they should know the data points cold. Are you telling me you have NO idea what our current and future brand strategy is?! You have our branding strategy presentation. In fact, you have our one sentence mission and branding statement… it can’t get clearer than those. Oh yea, AND you have all our current assets, including the new logo. If you’re thinking, “Did they really use the old logo in the presentation?”, you’d be 100% correct.
Okay, I’m done because I can’t even comprehend the non-“minor” things that were wrong with the presentation. Suffice it to say, I was and still am completely appalled.
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