The Biggest Mistakes People Make When Giving Presentations
Presentations are supposed to be about enhancing your message whereas most of the time it seems that you know they detract from it, dilute whatever the content is that you're trying to portray. Handouts by having handouts that are given at the end of a presentation can enable yourself to remove so much of the text from your slides and once you've got that connection to start connecting with your message I think people rely on power points to be their crutch so that if they forget where they are or if they you know forget a point they know that it's on the slide and the audience can just read it.
““Make slides that reinforce your words, not repeat them.””
— Seth Godin
As you all know I love nothing more than a super actionable breakdown from an expert in their space, not to mention I like telling the future. Well Tom Jamieson Co-founder of Slidebot kind of does just that. Slidebot is AI for powerpoints. Just imagine NEVER having to put together a powerpoint again (I kid you not I am using it right now). You see, Tom and his brother Ned have seen their fair share of presentations, think in the tens of thousands. #deathbypowerpoint
“There are 20 million powerpoint presentations created a day, I beat 19.9 million of them are awful. ”
— Tom Jamieson
So if you are looking to perfect your pitch, want to nail your next presentation or have your eye on a Ted Talk this bad boy is for you. Since I'm told most people fear #1 public speaking and #2 death.. this will be a great fear conquering activity for you.
Three Key Takeaways:
- Pictures of eyes correlate to higher retention rates
- People remember visual content 65% better than verbal content
- Facts are 20x more likely to be remembered if they are part of a story
Some of our mutual favorite powerpoint presentations nailed:
If you just want to hear his prediction that blew my mind fast forward to the end. Mind blown.
So my dears without further ado - I hope you dig this episode with Tom Jamieson of Slidebot!
www.slidebot.io
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