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

In previous episodes, I've mentioned that you can always hit the letter b in your PowerPoint mode and it blacks out the screen. That way, when you're speaking, you can have people focus on you, what you're saying, not your screens. But there is a better way of doing this, and that is when you're building your PowerPoint deck, simply put in a blank slide, you can use a black slide with nothing on it in between every slide that you want to show your audience, you can also just put an innocuous background slide where there's no text and no images and nothing to distract your audience. This way you don't have to hit B and then another key to bring it out of black and then advance. It's a simpler process. All you ever have to do is advance. You finished one slide, people looked at it, they got it. You just advance once. It goes to a black slide or a blank slide, there's nothing to look at. People then are more likely to turn to you, listen to you, focus on you. Then when you want to go to the next slide, you just advance once. Otherwise, if it's on black because you hit B when you're ready for the next point, the next slide, you hit a key, you see the slide you were talking about five minutes ago, and you have to hit advance twice. So that's the problem. And that's why hitting letter B isn't the best solution. The best solution is to build your deck the right way and have a blank slide in between every single real slide. The problem is so called PowerPoint slide experts, creation experts. They're not going to do this. They're afraid you would think they are crazy or that you're double being double billed. So you need to do this yourself or instruct whoever's putting your slide deck together to do this. The basic principle, give your audience one thing to look at at a time. If you're talking, don't have any slide up or have it a black slide so that it appears to be no slide.