Handcuffed to an Awful Presentation? 5 Things You Can Do

A new client came to me with a common problem: she was assigned to deliver a PowerPoint presentation that was created by someone else in her company but that she knew was no good. The slides were data-heavy and the script was boring and not audience-focused.

All the recommendations I would normally give were non-starters:

Can you change the slides? No. Can you cut slides? No. Can you add slides? No. Can you do it without the slides? No.

We did, however, find one important loophole:

Will th...