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Maybe you\u2019ve experienced it yourself, sitting in a meeting and watching a bunch of slides that made you lose the will to live. How did slides become so bad that we\u2019re killing people with them?<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a better way to connect with one another and it entails turning off the projector.<\/em><\/p>\n If the very thought of giving up the screen for your presentation makes your entire body seize up, don\u2019t panic\u200a\u2014\u200ayou\u2019re not alone.<\/p>\n While teaching a presentation class for a client, I walked in and asked for the projector and screen to be removed from the room. The client thought I had lost my mind.<\/p>\n \u201cHow will you teach us to give a presentation without any slides?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n All too often we rely on visual aids to give the presentation\u00a0for<\/em>\u00a0us. Or many people use slides to remind them what to say.<\/p>\n By simplifying your visual aids, you put the focus where it belongs\u200a\u2014\u200aon you.<\/p>\n There\u2019s a lot of conflicting information about how to design slides, most of which is unhelpful.<\/p>\n In fact, just yesterday, I met a lady who proudly told me she knew all about the 1\u20137\u20137 technique for slides. This teaches you to have one title, then seven bullets, with seven words per bullet-point.<\/p>\n This means having a minimum of 50 words on a slide! If you have 100 slides then you are asking people to read a 5,000 word document while you talk to them.<\/p>\n It isn\u2019t going to happen.<\/p>\n Limit the number of things you\u2019re asking people to focus on.<\/em><\/p>\n That means deleting all the extra text from your slides.<\/p>\n Your audience can\u2019t read, listen to you talk,\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>comprehend what you\u2019re saying at the same time. That\u2019s just too much.<\/p>\n Reducing the stimulus people take in during your presentation will allow them to take more away from their time with you.<\/p>\n People can\u2019t read and listen at the same time.<\/p>\n The parts of the brain required for this are too close together. However, we\u00a0can<\/em>\u00a0look at images and listen. In fact, one study showed that people who watch a presentation with bullet-points will only remember 10% of it three days later. But an audience that sees the same presentation with great images will remember 65%.<\/p>\n You want to keep your audience engaged, but you also want them to have a visual representation to stake in their memory\u200a\u2014\u200anot to mention good visuals can help people sit still longer.<\/p>\n Think about the\u00a0Lord of the Rings<\/em>\u00a0movies. They\u2019re several hours long and most people sat through them without having to get up for a bathroom or coffee break every forty minutes. The images and the characters talking were enough to keep viewers engaged for upwards of three hours in one sitting.<\/p>\nBUT IT ISN\u2019T POSSIBLE FOR AUDIENCES TO TAKE IN HUGE AMOUNTS OF TEXT WHILE ALSO LISTENING TO YOU TALK.<\/h4>\n
1. Delete Text<\/strong><\/h3>\n
2. Add Images<\/strong><\/h3>\n
THIS IS WHY YOUR PRESENTATION NEEDS STRIKING VISUALS TO ACCOMPANY YOUR TALKING POINTS.<\/h4>\n
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