Tech World Human Skills · 2026-06-10 · 36 min
Most technical professionals can fill a presentation with content. The harder problem is deciding what belongs, what order it goes in, and how to stop the audience forgetting everything before they walk out the door. In this solo episode, Ben unpacks two frameworks he comes back to every time he coaches someone through a high-stakes presentation. One is AOREN, a five-question template that acts as a North Star before a single slide gets built. The other is his go-to presentation structure, which maps the whole session from opening to close. AOREN stands for Audience, Objective, Remembered, Emotion, Next Steps. Ben walks through each element in detail: who is in the room and what they care about, how to hold two objectives in mind at once (yours and theirs), why narrowing down to three key messages before you start designing dramatically sharpens everything that follows, how to build emotional connection into content that is often dry and data-heavy, and how to be deliberate about what the audience should do the moment the session ends.
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