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by Harvard Business Review, Nancy Duarte, Bryan A. Garner, Mary Shapiro, Jeff Weiss
Organize Your Thoughts
Because presentation programs such as PowerPoint are visual tools, we often jump too quickly into visually expressing our ideas when we use them—before we’ve spent enough time arranging our thoughts and crafting our words. When moving ideas from sticky notes to software, enter each point you plan to cover as a clearly worded title in outline or slide-sorter mode rather than going straight to slide-creation mode (figure 2-3). That allows you to read the titles in sequence, without the distractions of supporting details or graphics, to make sure your presentation flows from point to point.
Ask yourself, “If people read just the titles, will they get what I’m saying?” That’s not just an academic exercise. You really want to ...
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