Let’s face it – when we give a speech, we don’t want to go in there  defenseless. 

If it was just going to be us standing on a stage talking  with an audience, we’d all feel rather exposed. To provide ourselves  with a sense of cover, we often show up with a deck of slides that we’ll be presenting during our speech in order to share the importance of public speaking with our audience.  This does afford us some protection; however, if we do a lousy job of  creating the slides then we’ll have sabotaged our presentation and we  may just be wasting our time up there. 

What does it take to allow a speaker to deliver a killer presentation?