The lecture focused on preparing to deliver a presentation, using slide presentations, customizing images, illustrations, and themes. Preparing for your presentations will improve your performance when the moment comes to deliver it to your audience. Mastering the integration of images and illustrations in your presentation will enable you to create attention-grabbing and highly memorable presentations that will say far more than you could with just words. As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words! Themes provide the user a method of maintaining consistency in appearance throughout your presentation.

Lets consider the following scenario: Your colleague is preparing to deliver a large presentation on behalf of your department. With her input, you scheduled a meeting, so she has time to rehearse in front of a small group of team members. On the day of the rehearsal, she cancels the meeting at the last minute. When you approach her to ask why she says, I dont think I need to practice. This presentation is not a big deal. In your initial post, address the following prompts:

• Justify the importance of this preparation meeting to your colleague.
• Summarize the advantages of rehearsing the presentation before presenting it to an audience.