From the course: Google Slides: Design and Deliver Great Presentations
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Know your main message - Google Drive Tutorial
From the course: Google Slides: Design and Deliver Great Presentations
Know your main message
- How many presentations have you seen in your life, and how many were memorable? Do you recall any boring, confusing, eyes glazed over presentations where you zoned out? It's a shame, isn't it? All that passion and effort invested in sharing information that might not be effective. How can you be different? How can you create and deliver a presentation that captures attention and results in action? One major reason presentations fail is multiple main messages. It isn't clear and it's too much information for an audience to recall and act upon. That's why it's crucial to hone your ideas into one central message. It's called the single most important thing, or SMIT. Your first action is to strip your idea down to its most critical essence. Here's some questions to get you started. What's the core meaning of your message? What can you edit out? What's your point of view? How can you express your perspective…