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You are given a topic and thirty minutes to prepare a ten-minute presentation. What do you build?
Build one message, three supporting points and a timed close, not a full deck. Spend about a third of the preparation deciding what you think, a third building a few slides or a flipchart, and the rest rehearsing aloud. Aim to finish at nine minutes, because the questions afterwards are scored too.
5 min readUpdated 2026-10-10
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Build one message, three supporting points and a timed close. In a presentation exercise, spend about a third of the preparation deciding what you think, a third building a few slides or a flipchart, and the rest rehearsing aloud against the clock. Aim to finish at nine minutes or a little after. Expect the questions afterwards to be scored as well.
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Likely follow-ups
- Your rehearsal runs to thirteen minutes with eight minutes of preparation left. What do you cut first?
- An assessor says your recommendation ignores the cost. How do you respond without restarting the presentation?
- How would your thirty-minute plan change if there were no slides and only a flipchart?
- If the brief names an audience, such as a board or a client, what changes in your opening minute?
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