Science of fail
Presentations in their current form fail, not through lack of effort but due to a lack of understanding of simple education and psychological science applied to the construction and delivery of presentations. That science also affects the engagement and retention of the audience. Understanding and applying these simple, key issues will entirely change presentations.
Science of fail posts
Patronising your audience
The scientific literature is clear regarding the many proven behavioural flaws in the nature of a standard “powerpoint” delivery. My “Presentations Skills” presentation has expanded to cover more of the…
The media has become the medium.
It really doesn’t mean to be but Powerpoint (and its siblings) IS the problem. There’s a fair amount of debate on Twitter , in the blogsphere and amongst those sorry souls who get…
What if I told you..
I picked this up from Google search. I tweeted it and it has now been retweeted in some form or other more than 600 times. Which says an awful lot.The…
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…
Guns don’t kill… bulletpoints do.
Tedious slide after tedious slide, read out almost verbatim with accompanying data slides that are too complex, don’t project well and are impossible to understand. There’s a random cartoon culled…
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…
I’m not bad; I’m just drawn that way!
Jessica Rabbit, wife of the famous actor Roger, film star and blues singer in her own right, famously tells Eddie Valiant, the gumshoe that, “I’m not bad; I’m just drawn…
scientific bulletpoints
There is a feeling that a presentation can’t be “scientific” unless it has bulletpoints, that transfer of information requires a list of facts on the board and that these should…