{"id":5493,"date":"2014-07-17T20:40:19","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T20:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/?p=5493"},"modified":"2014-07-18T06:17:10","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T06:17:10","slug":"i-flopped-badly-at-the-national-finals-a-true-story-about-how-not-to-prepare-fordeliver-an-important-presentation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/i-flopped-badly-at-the-national-finals-a-true-story-about-how-not-to-prepare-fordeliver-an-important-presentation-2\/","title":{"rendered":"I Flopped Badly At The National Finals! (A True Story About How NOT To Prepare For\/Deliver An Important Presentation) - with Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lessons I share in this article are based mainly on a true-life experience I had, in 1997, at the age of 27. I was delivering a management research paper at the National Finals of the now defunct Young Managers Competition, organized by the Nigerian Institute of Management(NIM). I provide graphic details of how my inexperience made me take certain important preparatory steps for granted.<\/p>\n<p>You will learn how that eventually led to a botched presentation that earned me considerable embarrassment, and a 5th place position that I would have bettered on a good day.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/i-flopped-badly-at-the-national-finals-a-true-story-about-how-not-to-prepare-fordeliver-an-important-presentation\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to continue to the revised version of the article<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lessons I share in this article are based mainly on a true-life experience I had, in 1997, at the age of 27. I was delivering a management research paper at the National Finals of the now defunct Young Managers Competition, organized by the Nigerian Institute of Management(NIM). I provide graphic details of how my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,266,112,10,996],"tags":[1180,1179],"class_list":["post-5493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employeescareer-persons","category-my-dn-travel-news","category-public-speaking","category-self-development","category-short-stories","tag-a-true-story-about-how-not-to-prepare-fordeliver-an-important-presentation","tag-i-flopped-badly-at-the-national-finals"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":1159,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5493"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5512,"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5493\/revisions\/5512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}