The Science of Presentations
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The document provides tips and guidance for improving presentation skills. It emphasizes preparing thoroughly by starting offline and focusing on curiosity before content. When designing presentations, it recommends keeping things simple with one point per slide, high quality visuals over text, and dumping templates. For delivery, it stresses practicing extensively, presenting from notes not slides, using presenter view, and asking for feedback. The overall goal is to treat audiences like kings by planning strategically and designing and delivering presentations that are visual, coherent and engage attention.
The Science of Presentations
- 1. The Art & Science of Presentations
- 3. (yes, really. go ahead)
- 4. Not so Good much
- 5. Why?
- 6. Life after… Death by PowerPoint
- 9. ..and this…
- 11. Which leads to…
- 13. and costs…
- 15. It’s not working
- 16. What’s the most common communication mistake?
- 17. TOO MUCH Info
- 21. Why do you present?
- 22. 1 Remember 2 Do Something
- 23. Modality Cognitive Principle Load Working Coherence Memory Principle Long-term Redundancy Memory Principle
- 24. Sensory Long-term inputs memory Audience
- 25. Working Memory Sensory Long-term inputs memory 3-4 items
- 26. kids blah blah deadlines blah blah money blah blah blah blah spouse blah kids blah lunch blah
- 27. kids blah blah deadlines blah blah money blah blah blah blah spouse blah kids blah lunch blah
- 28. kids blah blah deadlines blah blah money blah 1 2 3 1 2 3 blah blah blah spouse blah kids blah lunch blah
- 29. Formula for Better Presentations
- 31. Treat them like kings!
- 32. Got it?
- 33. Preparation
- 34. Start Offline
- 36. after 10 minutes audience attention steadily drops
- 38. Parachute in!
- 39. Design
- 40. Keep it simple
- 41. If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough —Albert Einstein
- 42. Reduce Text
- 45. Notes Area
- 46. Notes Page
- 47. Presenter View Audience Presenter
- 49. Make it visual. (But don’t decorate.)
- 51. Better recall for visual info Text Pictures
- 53. 1 Point Per Slide
- 56. Example
- 59. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery Keep it simple
- 60. Squint Test
- 63. DELIVERY
- 64. “Practice is the best of all instructors” Publilius Syrus
- 65. Read books – NOT Your Slides!!
- 66. Presenter View
- 70. Cut the Text Visual w/o Backup Plan Who & Why 1st decoration Never read Plan before PPT 1 Point per slides Slide “Plain English” Practice Dump the Parachute in. templates Ask for Feedback What the #s MEAN PREPARE DESIGN DELIVERY
- 71. Learning Forum Be a Super Hero ^presentation
- 74. http://bit.ly/miketaylor T. Michael Taylor Learning Development Consultant Fossil & Hydro Generation 155 W. Nationwide Blvd Columbus, Ohio 43215 614.583.6050 | audinet: 220.6050