TJ WALKER - THE HABIT INFLUENCER - Personal Development | LIVE STREAM

12 Jul 2016 · 1 min

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A short segment from a TJ Walker live-stream about planning PowerPoint presentations. Walker's primary recommendation is to pause before opening PowerPoint: clearly define and write down the specific action you want the audience to take, to avoid producing unfocused slides and wasting time.

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The first thing you should do in planning your PowerPoint presentation is forget the PowerPoint for a moment. Step back and ask yourself what is it you are trying to accomplish with this presentation? What is it you actually want your audience to do? Crystallize it. Write it down in front of you until you know exactly what it is you want to do. You run the risk of just going off and wasting your time. The audience's time, everyone's time. You run the risk of just accumulating a lot of data, having a data dump and no one even knows why you were there. So that is the first tip. Write down exactly what you're trying to accomplish and it shouldn't be something as vague and as fuzzy as oh well Tita, he seems like a smart guy and knows what he's doing. That's too low an ambition. Write down. Have a clear cut sense in your brain exactly what you want your audience to do before creating the very first slide in your presentation.