2 Minute Talk Tips

2-Minute Tip: Keep Your Shirt Off   Breakfast is the most important meal of the day (if you believe "Big Breakfast"). When travelling to give a talk, we may start the day with room service breakfast in a hotel room while we putter about getting ready for the day. That makes it really easy to spill coffee or jelly on your presentation outfit if you get fully dressed before eating. The simplest way to avoid that is to keep your presentation shirt off until it's time to leave.   Post Tip Discussion   As a general rule, we all want to be successful in our talks, our careers, and our personal lives. But how often do we stop and define just what success means? The fact is success can mean a lot of different things depending on the context. That's why it's so important to think about the criteria for success and define it early on. Once you have a definition of success for the specific context you are in, then you can develop the appropriate plan to achieve success.   Problems and disputes arise when we don