The Stakes
Making them care in 60 seconds
The CFO is already looking at her phone. You have sixty seconds to make this room full of busy people care about something they didn't walk in caring about.
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The Boardroom Pitch
→Five executives. Twelve minutes. One chance to change the direction of the company. Strip the deck to what matters and own every second.
Part of the quest
Public Speaking Under Pressure
→From commanding a room on your first stage to recovering when everything goes wrong — practice the delivery skills that most speakers never drill. Not just what you say, but how you stay when the pressure is real.
What you'll learn from The Stakes
This scenario focuses on Making them care in 60 seconds — a critical skill inside the broader communication domain. You'll face a decision where the instinctive response is often the wrong one. After you make your choice, you'll see exactly what happened in the other person's head and why it mattered. The scenario is part of The Boardroom Pitch, a full interactive story inside the Public Speaking Under Pressure quest.
Skills you'll build in Public Speaking Under Pressure
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Five executives. Twelve minutes. Forty slides you need to cut to six. Your job right now isn't to be thorough — it's to find the one idea that makes the other thirty-nine unnecessary.
The CEO cuts you off mid-sentence with a question that has nothing to do with your current slide. Your carefully planned arc just shattered — adapt or drown.
You've made the case. Now you have to ask for what you actually want — clearly, specifically, without hedging — while five people decide your project's fate in real time.
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