Knowing When You Don’t Know
“I don’t know. We apologise and will get back to you.” Those words would have gotten me out of the most challenging and intense presentation I have ever given. The 'clients' even walked out during the presentation. But for some reason, I couldn’t bring myself to say them. Honestly, they barely even crossed my mind. In trying to save the presentation, I caught myself running in quicksand with every response digging us slightly deeper. Now, you may have noticed the word 'clients' was in inverted commas. Fortunately, this entire presentation was part of Capgemini’s Consulting Skills Workshop set up to prevent exactly something like this from happening when the stakes were higher. It was the culmination of 3 intense days (and a couple of weeks of preparation) which honed our presentation skills and client facing ability.






