Most presentations are too long.
And here’s a simple way to make yours shorter…
When you’ve completed your presentation, review every slide and ask yourself “keep-bin-appendix”?
- Keep – is this slide so critical that it must remain in the presentation? If so, keep it
- Bin – is this slide not needed? If so, bin it – delete it from your deck
- Appendix – is this slide useful, but only as background detail? If so, remove it from the main presentation, and put it in an appendix
I recently shared this technique with one of my customers. She had a 30-slide deck. And then – only five minutes later – eight were in the bin, and a further seven in an appendix.
So she only had 15 left in her core deck.
So, she had halved her presentation. In only five minutes!
Better still: she’d removed the worst half.
All of which makes this week’s Action Point very obvious…
Action Point
For your next presentation, review each slide, for “keep – bin – appendix”.
You are only five minutes away from having a shorter, better presentation!