If planning a presentation means sitting down with PowerPoint and typing your thoughts directly into a slide deck, this episode is for you. Like countless other professionals, you begin with your own thoughts and your planning largely includes translating those thoughts into text on your slides. However, we know the outcome of this sort of plan leads to less-than-optimal outcomes. Audiences don't resonate with slides full of text. Even worse, cognitive science demonstrates that our brains can't even process that text efficiently while simultaneously listening to live speech. In this episode, you'll learn a better way to plan for better presentation outcomes. Learn what cognitive science has taught us about how audiences take in, process, and retain information in our presentations. You'll walk away with a new way to plan your next talk and a new way to connect with your audience.