“If you strive for simplicity,you are more likely to reach the viewer”
William Albert Allard
There is a problem with slideware…
You hit “New Slide” and you get something like
this …
Let’s try again !
Problem ?
TooManyBullet pointsToo wordy
With lots of sub-bullets to elaborate the point
Result = Audience asleep
Even this version does not exactly
light up the room, does it ?
Maybe once more ?
Most presenters use slidewareto produce stuff like this …
Which makes audience …
Too many words, too many …
Another wee problem with putting
too much words on the screenMost people talk at …
150 wpm
Whereas most people read at …
250 wpm
When you give them something like this …
So when you put a huge number of words up on the screen like this, two things happen.(1) Audiences can read faster than you can talk, so they use all their brain capacity reading ahead, drawing their own conclusions and not really listening to you (2) they sit there, consciously or unconsciously thinking, “Why am I sitting here ? This bozo could just have emailed me his slides and I could have stayed at home !”
So, how can I migrate away from endless text in bullet
point format ?
EXAMPLE
Effective mentoring
Must-haves :• It is essential to the success of the process that the
mentor and novice have a clear vision of what it is that they want to accomplish together.
• The receptiveness of the inexperienced staff member is also vital.
• Plus, the mentor and less experienced staff member need to have time to meet regularly to discuss, plan and share ideas, and to observe and be observed by each other.
We have seen attempts to improve this kind of slide that
went this far …
Effective mentoring
Must-haves :• It is essential to the success of the process that the
mentor and novice have a clear vision of what it is that they want to accomplish together.
• The receptiveness of the inexperienced staff member is also vital.
• Plus, the mentor and less experienced staff member need to have time to meet regularly to discuss, plan and share ideas, and to observe and be observed by each other.
Slides like that make us …
Let’s try again !
Clarity
How about a small image ?
Plus one word which appears
uppermost ?
Effective mentoring
• It is essential to the success of the process that the mentor and novice have a clear vision of what it is that they want to accomplish together.
Thus, all of this becomes what you SAY, supported by the crispy visual, rather than something the audience
has to read
And all the guff that was cluttering up
the screen now goes to live down here
Clarity
Repeat twice more
Clarity Receptivity Time
So you still say it, but neither you
nor the audience reads it
It’s all about innovative imagination !
and
It’s all about innovative imagination !
has
NO LIMIT
“Communication is the transfer of emotion”
Seth Godin
Let’s see one more technique
Imagination is an
OCEAN
Pictures
Speak
Better
Than
Words
Try to improve your visual skill
Garr Reynolds said …
Just Remember
Practice
Practice
Practice
Did you get it ?
Go visual
Let the image tell your story
Absolutely NO bullet-points (till the end)
Design, DON’T decorate
Practice before presenting
RememberWhat Einstein once said
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