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Quick & Dirty Presentation Tip #13 "If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough." Albert Einstein Basically, if you really want people to understand your message, you need to be able to condense the main takeaway into one or two lines. This forces you to take the complexity out and allows you to deliver a message that is simple. A simple message is easy to understand, remember, and share. Once you have that, figure out the main benefit of that simple message for your counterparts and their stakeholders. Simplify that into one or two lines as well. Then cherry-pick the three most important data points that supports your two messages. Boom! Easy for your audience to get and easy for you to deliver. And everybody loves easy. Got a Question About Presentation? Ask Me:  dan@boswell-training.com Be Your Absolute Best. Make It Easy. Boswell Communication Training

Storytelling vs Data & Facts Facts don’t connect with people, people do.  In order to truly engage consumers and employees, business needs people and their stories.  Storytelling can support the fact-based approach, because it help us better understand how KPIs and other data was generated and what they mean.  Data tell us what happened out in the real world.  Storytelling helps us to paint that picture and give it context, emotion, and meaning.  It also makes the data 22 times more memorable and much less boring . When you think about it, thats all KPIs are: a scoreboard for what happened in the past, is happening now, or is projected to happen in future.  KPIs are actually the Story of Life. Storytelling let’s us translate the data into „Human“. That makes it emotional, powerful, and memorable. I sometimes think KPIs should be called Key People Indicators. Takeaway: Facts and data are essential for business. Bringing them to life with Storytelling is even more so. Sign Your Team