Presentation Scramble

This summer was the summer of the Mayo Clinic for me. I spent a great deal of time thinking deeply about the complex needs of patients, the Mayo Clinic and the services it offers. It is an ooey gooey problem and lots of fun but it takes a lot of effort to focus the range of issues for clear presentation. During the project my team was asked to present our findings to colleagues on extremely short notice. This is annoying.

However, I learned a great deal from it. I learned about simplicity. I learned constant reassessment and focus. If 3 of us had 20 minutes to tighten up a quick presentation we better know what we mean. Although there are painful moments where things you clearly could have explained a point better with 5 more minutes, there are great moments. of clarity where you see your audience adding up the points and clarifying the most exciting issues. We called the process the "Presentation Scramble" I know see it as rapid prototyping method for presentations.

Presentation scrambles must of course be done in a safe environment but the small failures steel your logic and nerve while teaching you what's important. So I say thank you to Ryan Armbruster for his Presentation Scrambles.

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