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Most business presentations are about as interesting as watching paint dry in slo-mo, so the last thing you want is to make your presentation MORE boring by misusing your graphics.
Here are some simple rules based on a conversation with psychologist Stephen M. Kosslyn, author of the book Clear and to the Point.
Note: I’ve included some very rough examples to give you an idea of what I’m talking about. Needless to say, your own slides will be somewhat more polished.
Graphics are particularly good at communicating that one thing is larger than another. If you attempt to express this with words and numbers, you’re forcing your audience to do mental mathematics. Why not make it easy for them?
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If your data contains multiple elements (like sales over time), a graph is the best way to communicate. However, don’t crowd the slide with data lest it become a puzzle-solving exercise. Keep it simple.
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It’s very difficult for an audience to absorb a complicated graphic. Rather than present it as a massive wall of visual data, break the graphic into chunks and show how each chunk relates to the previous chunk.
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You: “Here is our basic organizational structure.” (Click)
You: “We are now going to focus on the R&D group.”
Actually, Kosslyn didn’t say anything about this, but it needs to be said: enough with the happy workers who look like they’ve stepped out of a soap opera!
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Geoffrey James writes the Sales Source column on Inc.com, the world’s most visited sales-oriented blog. His newly published book is Business to Business Selling: Power Words and Strategies From the World’s Top Sales Experts. @Sales_Source
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