Share screen during call

I'm about to run the demo in the weekly stakeholder call. Share your screen in the #weekly-demo meeting five minutes early, open the prototype build at http://staging.example.com and the bug board filtered to this sprint, then present the feature flow from login to checkout. If the presenter handoff to Raj is needed, stop on slide three and give him control.

Before I share my screen in the stakeholder meeting, make the view reviewer-friendly: close unrelated tabs, enlarge the section with the new metrics, switch the bug board to list view and highlight the three high-priority issues, and prep a one-line explanation of any latency the reviewer will see. Flag anything that would make a reviewer hesitate to approve the demo.

I began screen sharing and mid-demo someone noticed a private chat and asked if I was exposing other work. I froze and stopped explaining. I’m worried I exposed confidential info and made the team look unprepared. Do I keep going, apologize and continue, or stop and restart with a clean view? Advise the next move and exact words to say to calm the room.

We lose time and trust because presenters habitually share cluttered screens or the wrong window. I think it’s sloppy rehearsal and poor controls. Which routine should I institute—what checklist to run five minutes before share, who enforces it, and a quick recovery script if something slips through?