Jim James argues that great presentations focus on the audience, not the slides. Simplify to one core idea, hook them at the start, and end with a clear call to action that makes them want to do something.
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We always tell our clients, you need to animate your audience, not your slides. So say that you have a great message. It's not enough. You also need to be able to deliver the message in a way that's comfortable and convincing. If you think about it, when you give a presentation, it's their presentation, not yours. It's always the audience's presentation. Think of a presentation as a present. So one key thing to consider is the idea of simplifying the message. If everything is important, then nothing is. And then maybe just one thought. How do you hook your audience at the beginning? How do you capture their attention? How do you develop your key messages? How do you end your presentations with a very clear conclusion or a clear call to action so that they actually do something after the presentation? So it's also about structuring the presentation in a way that makes it easier for the audience to