The Power of Visualizing Information
The Wharton School of Business completed a study that proved the benefits of increasing visual elements in presentations and tightly integrating them with words. By comparing visual presentations with verbal presentations, the results were overwhelmingly in favor of visualizations. Take a LOOK and SEE for yourself.
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64% in the group with the visual presentation made a decision immediately after the presentation. The control group took longer to decide.
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The meeting time for the visual presentation was 24% less than the verbal presentation.
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When a visual presentation was delivered, 79% of the participants reached consensus compared to 58% in the group that had no visual language.
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The presenter convinced 67% of the people when using both verbal and visual language. Purely verbal presentations only convinced 50% of the participants.
Presenters who used visual language were perceived as more effective than those no using visuals. The audience responded that the visual presenters were:
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Clearer,
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More concise,
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More interesting,
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More professional,
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More credible, and
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Better prepared
So, the next time you have something important to say, try showing it instead!
More resources to learn about presenting information visually:
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Effectiveness of visual language presentations (MacroVU visual language course)
About the Author: Michael Deutch is Mindjet’s Chief Evangelist, content contributor for the Mindjet Blog and the Mindjet Connections newsletter. Get more from Michael on Twitter.
#1 by Dr. L M Foong at June 22nd, 2009
Your articles are well written, illustrated and presented with appropriate graphic that ease teh understanding. It certainly would enhance my reader too as I write about SWOT Analysis at my blog at http://swotanalysistemplate.com . I certainly like to request for a link exchange
#2 by Dr. L M Foong at June 22nd, 2009
Your articles are well written, illustrated and presented with appropriate graphic that ease teh understanding. It certainly would enhance my reader too as I write about SWOT Analysis at my blog. I certainly like to request for a link exchange
#3 by Michael Deutch at June 16th, 2009
Thanks, I corrected the typo!
#4 by R R Karpov at June 15th, 2009
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I just wanted to mention that I think “the control group tool longer to decide” was supposed to read “the control group took longer to decide”. Is this accurate?
#5 by Michael Deutch at June 5th, 2009
Marcos, I used a secondary source which I included in the list of related resources. It’s the last link. If I get my hands on the original, I’ll definitely update this post.
Thanks, Michael
#6 by Marcos D. Alves at June 5th, 2009
Hi, can we access the complete report from Wharton ? Thanks.