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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

Open house

If a blog post falls in the forest, does anyone hear?I don’t know. What do YOU think? Do you agree with what’s written here? How would you change presentation skills?…

ffolliet
September 20, 2013
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Hope springs eternal.

Your audience has high expectations of your presentation and it is good to know that they support you, truly, and want the best for you. Nervous or inexperienced presenters should…

ffolliet
September 19, 2013
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My Boss won’t like it…

This isn’t another post persuading you to give up bulletpoints; if you’ve come this far and still cling to them, then you are deluded. This is a post about why…

ffolliet
September 13, 2013
p cubed, p1, p2, p3

The perfect handout

I was watching a colleague preparing a presentation the other day. (I know, it took all that was within in me but I did just sit and watch. Oh, okay,…

ffolliet
August 22, 2013
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But…

It’s an important meeting I have lots of facts to deliver I didn’t have time People expect it It’s my script I need it for confidence I can print it…

ffolliet
July 9, 2013
p cubed, p2, slideument

What sort of presenter are you?

One of the tests of a descriptive model such as the p cubed concept (p3) (that a good presentation is a combination (the product) of the story (p1), the supportive…

ffolliet
July 1, 2013
p cubed, p1, p2, p3

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…

ffolliet
June 28, 2013
p cubed, p1, p2, p3, story

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…

ffolliet
June 6, 2013
p cubed, p1, p2, p3, practise, slideument, story

Presentation maths

Presentation maths highlights how all the elements in…
Signal to noise ratio

The signal to noise ratio describes the strength…
Lost in time

“Lost, in time, like tears in rain.” A…
If you could make just one change…

One of the commonest questions I am asked…
Your presentation

Your presentation is the product of its constituent…
p³ presentations are not just pretty pictures

One of the more predictable criticisms of p…
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…