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  • Each slide should have a max of 4 dot points, with each dot point roughly representing one spoken paragraph. Each dot point should have only the 3-4 most important words next to it. Speak the rest, but imagine that the dot point is what you want them to remember.


    For example

    Slide says:

    • Sales up 15%

    What you say:

    Due to the added bump from Christmas sales, we moved an additional 2500 units this quarter, which is about 15% of our year to date revenue. This is bigger than our Christmas sales last year, by about 7%. We think the increase is due to our new SKUs.

    [Click, next dot point appears]


    It’s better to have lots of slides with less info per slide.

    If you have a small number of slides but they are too dense, the audience will read it in a couple of seconds then get bored, and will stop paying attention while waiting for you to finish reading.



  • I’m not in IT but used to work with a very old terminal based data storage and retrieval system.

    If the original programmers had implemented a particular feature, it was very easy to enter a command and have it spit out the relevant info.

    But as times changed, the product outgrew its original boundaries, and on a regular basis clients would ask for specific info that would require printing out decades worth of data before searching and editing it to get what the client wanted.

    I can not tell you how many times I heard the phrase, “Can’t you just push a button or something and get the information now??”

    The thing that infuriated me the most was the idea that somehow we could do that, but didn’t want to, as if there was some secret button under the desk that we could push for our favourite clients. Ugh.