First attempt to improve presentations

3. “If you strive for simplicity,
you are more likely to reach the viewer”
William Albert Allard

4. There is a problem with
slideware…

6. You hit “New Slide”
and you get something like this …

9. Let’s try again !

10. Problem ?
Too
Many
Bullet points
Too wordy
With lots of sub-bullets to elaborate the point
Result = Audience asleep

11. Even this version does not exactly
light up the room, does it ?

13. Maybe once more ?

14. Most presenters use slideware
to produce stuff like this …

16. Which makes audience …

18. Too many words, too many …

20. Another wee problem with putting
too much people on the screen
Most words talk at …

21. 150 wpm

22. Whereas most people read at …

23. 250 wpm
When you give them something like this …

24. 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 !”

25. So, how can I migrate away from
endless text in bullet point format ?

26. EXAMPLE

27. 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.

28. We have seen attempts to improve
this kind of slide that went this far …

29. 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.

30. Slides like that make us …

32. Let’s try again !

33. Clarity
Plus one word which
How about
appears uppermost ?
a small image ?

34. 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

35. And all the guff that
was cluttering up the
screen now goes to live
down here

36. Clarity
Repeat twice more

37. Clarity Receptivity Time

38. So you still it, but neither you
nor the audience reads it

40. and
It’s all about innovative
It’s all about innovative imagination !
imagination !
has

41. NO
LIMIT

42. “Communication is the transfer of emotion”
Seth Godin

43. Let’s see one more technique

44. Imagination is an

45. Pictures
Speak
Better
Words
Than

46. Try to improve your visual skill

48. Garr Reynolds said …

51. Just Remember

54. Practice
Practice
Practice

55. Did you get it ?

56. Absolutely NO bullet-points (till the end)
Go visual
Let the image tell your story
Design, DON’T decorate
Practice before presenting

57. Remember
What Einstein once said

59. You can download photos from
www.sxc.hu
www.flickr.com
www.dreamstime.com
images.google.fr

61. THANK YOU