May 25 • Resources
The moment you stop reading your slides
She's three minutes in and her eyes haven't left the screen. The slide says "Q2 priorities." She reads it. Then she reads the bullet under it. Then the next bullet. Her face is angled at the laptop, the room somewhere behind her.
The room has gone. They're scrolling, glancing at email, half-listening because the deck is doing the talking and they can read faster than she can speak.
There's a smaller fix than memorizing the deck.
Next time you catch yourself reading a slide, stop mid-sentence, look up, and say the next line from your face. The pause is fine. The pause is what tells the room you're back with them.
Slides are backup. Treat them that way. A talk where the audience could close the laptop and still get the point is the kind of talk that didn't need slides.
Try it once this week. Notice what changes when your eyes leave the screen and land on someone.
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The moment you stop reading your slides
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