You’ve been tasked to create a presentation to convince an executive audience to invest in a new initiative. But if you’ve done your work well, you should be able to turn an hour-long presentation into a five-minute pitch without too much trouble. Figuring out your accordion can even be a good first step in constructing your longer presentation because it forces you to distill your argument into simple, direct language. As you make these key points, you can add supporting detail/statistics as time allows. Even in a short presentation, repetition helps get your audience to take away exactly what you need.

Source: Forbes December 08, 2017 12:11 UTC