The number one reason most presentations fail, the number one reason most people have deficient presentation skills. It's because of insecurity. We think, Oh gosh, I'm not very good at this. He's gonna make fun of me. She's gonna laugh at me. They're gonna think I'm not smart enough.

I'm not hardworking enough. I'll show them I'll overwhelm them with fact after fact, data point at your data point. I'll give them so much information. No one can complain, I left anything out. Boom, boom, boom, boom, the wheelbarrows come in, and how does that make you feel when someone does that? I can tell you I test audiences all over the world.

And nobody remembers anything that the data dumpers put out there. So so much of being good at presentation skills, has nothing to do with your hand gestures or your eye contact or your voice or your body. body movement, we'll get to all those things. But a far bigger factor is just making a fundamental decision. You're not going to act like some insecure ninny who is so scared of somebody saying you left something out that you feel this need to dump everything you know, remember, the people you're speaking to the, anyone you're presenting to, doesn't have to know everything, you know, if they did, they'd have your job. I don't like to teach by the negative and avoid the negative because that tends to just stress the negative.

I like to stress the positive. But I do want to get this one thing out there. Just we've got to get over this idea that we have to give people all the data. Remember, it's not communication, if it comes out of your mouth, or if it's shown on a slide, it's communication. If your audience understands it, and remembers it So they can act upon it.