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p cubed framework

A presentation is made of three component parts; the message (p1), the supportive media (p2) and the delivery of these (p3). The value of a presentation is the product of these three factors, the p cubed value.

The three components are discussed in more depth in their individual sections. Please check them out. This section deals with the p cubed value, the product of preparation, design, and delivery.

Some key posts include:

Your presentation is the product of its parts (The FIRST blog post)
The maths of a better presentation
Don’t put the cart before the horse
The p cubed value of a presentation

One Hundred Posts!

Way back in March 2013 I published my first post on this blog site; “Your presentation is the product of its parts.” In it I discussed the p cubed concept…

ffolliet
November 17, 2014
p cubed, p1, p2, p3

It is a performance, not a reading.

The 4th P in Presentation is to Perform. Clearly this is the most important. Even having perfected all of the preceding parts of your presentation if you simply stand on…

ffolliet
November 17, 2014
p cubed, p3

The 5 Ps of Presentation

In order to improve the value of a presentation one must construct an excellent story (p1), design appropriate and supportive media (p2) but ultimately all of this will come to…

ffolliet
November 2, 2014
p cubed, p1, p2, p3, practise

Less is more

Less words.Less complexity.Less facts.Less bulletpoints.Less datapoints.Less graphs.Less clip art.Less annotation.Less slides.Less rambling.Less apologising.Less time.Less is more.

ffolliet
October 5, 2014
p cubed

It’s just not scientific…

Recently I shared ideas with a colleague about presentations and she significantly altered the supportive media (p2) of her upcoming presentation. She was very pleased with her performance and the…

ffolliet
June 24, 2014
p cubed, p1, p2, p3

Your “powerpoint” is not the message, it supports the message.

I did a little talk in late November 2013 at TEDx Stuttgart. I am hoping to write a few posts around the construction and delivery of the whole thing but…

ffolliet
March 18, 2014
p cubed, p1, p2, p3

@ffolliet would be proud…(2)

More pride as more friends and colleagues make better and better presentations and suggest that I am at least partly catalytic in the process. I do keep encouraging them that…

ffolliet
March 16, 2014
p cubed, p1, p2, p3

PechaKucha :Twenty, 20 sec tips.

I recently had the opportunity to present at a PechaKucha event. The word itself means “chitchat” in Japanese and is a presentation format with a strict structure; twenty slides, each…

ffolliet
October 21, 2013
#htdap, p cubed, p1, p2, p3

Presentation maths

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Signal to noise ratio

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Lost in time

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If you could make just one change…

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Your presentation

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p³ presentations are not just pretty pictures

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Never about slides

The future of presentations is not about slides,…
It’s too important

It might be a research funding panel, a…
Being an expert

Expertise in a topic does not make you…
Kintsugi

The way presentations are currently constructed, delivered and…