PowerPoint Lesson 6

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People

can

read

or

People

can

listen

Consider this.

All your main points are typed out

People spend more time reading than

listening to you

Bullet points fill too much space on a

slide

People give up because your

presentation is too hard to follow

because they can’t decide whether

they should listen or read…

When given a large amount of textto read on a screen the audience willfocus all their attention on thatscreen rather than listen to what youhave to say

so when you

Talk

stick with

PICTURES

to evoke basic

Don’t make your audience

or

A says a thousand words.

Use them wisely.

Stop Writing Everything.

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TalkDon’t Read

Yes, I’m aware of the irony here….

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