Weekend Language: Presenting with More Stories and Less PowerPoint

Think about it: on weekends, we’re all great communicators because our default is storytelling. When we go to a party on Saturday night, we don’t talk about how we optimized our calendar last Wednesday to monetize our mission-critical, best-of-breed, seamless-solution-provider business. (If you do, that’s probably why you haven’t been invited back to many parties).

Instead we tell a story about something that happened on Wednesday. On the weekends our speech is conversational, simple, clear,...