{"id":3651,"date":"2016-06-06T08:27:24","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T07:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/?p=3651"},"modified":"2016-06-06T14:11:24","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T13:11:24","slug":"a-picture-in-your-presentations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/a-picture-in-your-presentations\/","title":{"rendered":"A picture in your presentations"},"content":{"rendered":"

The old adage says “A picture paints a thousand words<\/strong>“. \u00a0And (details aside) they’re right. \u00a0 To illustrate the point, there are only a few word in the first half of\u00a0this blog post. Instead, consider the picture below, and ask yourself if you can guess what I’ve done for the\u00a0previous couple of hours with my wife… :)<\/p>\n

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\nThen think about how effective a good image can be for getting information over in your presentations!<\/p>\n

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The key thing here isn’t just that the image contains a huge amount of information, but that the information is structured in such a way as it tells a story: you know what it means at a very ‘human’ level. I don’t mean that in the sense of us having done something human, but in the more vague sense of ‘it not just being meaningless numbers’. It’s something that people can ‘grasp’ – quickly and easily. Isn’t that exactly what you need to do in a presentation?<\/p>\n

What’s more, even a poorly structured image as this one (it was a quick point-and-grab on my iPhone) can give a wealth of detailed information.<\/p>\n

Take a moment to look at the picture again, You can probably infer<\/p>\n