The First Three Rules of Orals:
1. Be Yourself! 2. Be Yourself! 3. Be Yourself!
The government wants to see and hear from the people who will do the work. Making program managers and technical people coherent and comfortable as presenters is the key to winning. You don’t want to aim for slick – you want likeable, competent, and believable.
Winning requires we focus on:
“David turned what could have been a me-too, boring presentation into a compliant and exciting one that had the evaluators saying: now that’s what we were looking for.”