Have Conversations Instead of Presentations

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How much time is spent at work in preparing presentations? Depending on the audience, a lot can go into this.

You have to:

• Research all the content
• Refine the message
• Polish with animations and colors
• Pre-review with stakeholders and include their feedback

One company claims that employees spend on average 20 hours/month creating PowerPoint slides…

That’s 12.5% of their time focused on merely crafting a message…

That’s 12.5% of their time spent tweaking fonts in a PowerPoint deck, instead of actually delivering value.

Sure — some presentations are “high stakes”. You’re selling work, you’re speaking at a big conference, etc.

But for internal meetings? This is overkill.

Don’t drown your team in “busy” work. Prepare enough content to start a conversation on the topic.

And then get back to real work.