292 Getting Your Visuals Right: Part One

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Today we are going to look at the proper use of visuals when presenting. Many people ask us at Dale Carnegie Tokyo Training, what should I do with preparing my PowerPoint or my key note presentation? What about the visuals? What is too much? What is too little? What is the best way to make this work for me? Well there are a couple of things we need to consider at the very beginning. What about the types of visuals that we need to use? How many visuals are required? Some people have very few. Some people have a lot. I once gave a five minute presentation and I used for that, I think, about 90 visuals. Now you might be thinking, 90 visuals in five minutes? Are you nuts? Well that particular presentation was a warm up to a keynote speaker. We’d sponsored the event and for that we got five minutes of stage time. Now I remember a quote from Abraham Lincoln. Something along the lines of, if you want me to give a three hour speech I can get up and give it right now. But if you want a 20 minute speech it will take me three or four weeks to prepare it. And that’s right. To give a very long rambling speech is relatively easy. To give a very concise sharp speech is very tough. Five minutes is a really tough time period in which to speak and very hard to have impact. So in that particular case, I used 90 slides. I was using visual stimulation every two seconds. As I was speaking, behind me on a big screen, visuals were just hitting the audience hard, because in that five minutes, I needed to get across an image about Dale Carnegie Tokyo Training. I used massed visual stimulation, because I didn’t have many words available to me in just five minutes, to really grab that audience’s attention with strong memorable ideas. So I was using that two

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