I’ve never been really good about speaking in front of large groups of people. So it really made me nervous when my boss told me that he was putting me in charge of a presentation that was coming up for some pretty powerful clients of ours. I knew that I couldn’t mess around. I knew that I had to take this seriously and do something that would really wow everyone. I really wanted to see if I could handle Powerpoint design on my own. It didn’t seem that hard to do. However, everything that I made looked very amateurish. I realized that I had misjudged what it takes to put together a professional presentation and I needed help.

After learning that no one in my department knows how to make a really good slideshow, I talk to my boss about paying an outside company to do it for me. He thought that was a great idea. (more…)