Tip 90: Don't read out your presentation slides
As you are making your slides, keep asking yourself one question. If someone who isn’t at your presentation were to see your slides, could they understand your presentation? If the answer is yes, then you have got a big problem with your slides.
If a person who isn't there can understand your presentation by just reading your slides, then what you are adding by being there in person? You audience can read your slides in the printed conference book or on the CD when it arrives.
If you don't really need to be there, then why bother? Why spend your money and time travelling to the venue at all? Why should your audience spend their time listening to you?
If you are there to read some bullet points from a projector screen then don’t go. Email your bullet points to your audience and let them read through them themselves. It will be more efficient because people read faster than they can speak or listen.
The fact that the presenter is there in person is the most important feature of giving a presentation rather than writing an article. I have watched too many presentations where this advantage has been wasted. Presentations where a person goes on stage, reads through a bunch of bullet points and goes off stage.
Don't read your presentation from the screen. Your audience is perfectly capable of reading the presentation, they don’t need it read for them.
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