Financial Presentation Skills: Four Steps to Communicate Your Expertise

If you need to fine tune, your financial presentation skills, these four steps will help you communicate your expertise without overwhelming your audience.
Many of you give financial presentations, and of course, your going to have very busy slides with graphs and charts on them. Here's how you can create success when you have to present with a busy slide:
1. Tell them what the slide is about.
2. Guide your audience's eyes by telling them where to look. Do you want them to look from left to right? Should they go to a specific column or a specific graphic?
3. Once you've got them focused on where they need to be looking, then explain that information.
The important part when you're explaining numbers is to give your opinion.
1. What do the numbers mean?
2. How is it going to impact their business decisions?
Once you're able to guide their eyes to where you want them to look, you give your opinions or your thoughts, your information will have more importance to them when they have to make a good business decision as it relates to that information.
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