story
Exactly what is it that the presentation is about? That is the story. The conversion of that into a message is what separates a great presentation from the others.
What is the best, new tool in presentations?
An interesting post at The Harvard Business Review on Presentations discusses other new and exciting tools that may help in effective presentations. Sadly, I think they miss the point completely.…
Changing your slides won’t improve your presentation. (much)
Too often I hear people say, “I really liked your presentation, I’m going to change my slides.” Whilst on one level I rejoice, it is not that bulletpoints themselves offend…
Painting with words
She looked into my eyes, begging, imploring me. She had walked in obviously frightened. She was desperate. We both knew the only question she was wanted me to answer: it had…
Read these.
33 blog posts, about 80 page views a day and over 6500 total views suggest that some folk are interested in what is being written about here. It is a…
“Caught up within a single style of visual presentation.”
The previous post alluded to the fact that the fault for bad presentations does not lie with the presentation software. The master of presenting data and information, Edward Tufte, has…
The maths of a better presentation
In my original post I proposed that a presentation is the product, rather than the sum of its parts. More than simply a construct of mathematics this is a model…
If I could make just ONE change to improve, what should it be?
It’s clear that when a speaker steps off stage having giving an excellent presentation that a lot of work has gone into the finished article. Whether that is a business…
It’s not what you said, it was how you said it!
Sideways is a book I loved when I first read it. The humour and pathos captured me, I was intrigued by the relationships and ultimately learnt what goes best with…