Saturday’s winter lockdown TV announcement contained a host of widespread bad practices – many of you will already have made a note to do things differently in your next presentation. But beside the various traps the speakers fell into, the key one is that they did not give (or even have) the time to practice it in front of someone from outside the team. If they had done that the issues would have been fixed, the message would have been clearer and their job would have been SO MUCH easier.
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Watch (from 20:09): https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000pj5m/bbc-news-special-coronavirus-update-31102020