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

18 Jun 2008 · 1 min

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Live-stream talk by TJ Walker advising business presenters to use far fewer numbers in presentations. He emphasizes selective editing: identify the few numbers audiences must remember, move other data to handouts or emailed slides, and avoid projecting dense numeric slides during the talk.

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Most business presenters put way, way too many numbers in their presentations. Well, why is that? Because they feel like, oh, I have to. These are the numbers. Quick, name for me three numbers that you remember from any presentation in the last month. I'm waiting. It's kind of hard, isn't it? In fact, it's very difficult to remember numbers that you hear. So my number one piece of advice for you, when it comes to numbers, you've got to be a more selective editor, really. Sit down and look at all these numbers, all these charts, all these columns of numbers you have, and figure out what is truly important. What are the numbers that you absolutely, positively have to have your audience remember, be a better editor, Narrow it down. Then when you have just a few numbers, you can figure out, what are you going to talk about? All the other numbers, Give that to people in the handout, the paper handout. You know, give them lots of notes to hand out later. But you don't have to say that. You can also give the numbers in a PowerPoint presentation that's emailed to people, but don't give it in the PowerPoint behind you or that you're projecting during your presentation. If you want to have people remember your numbers, you need to follow some of these rules.