p cubed presentations is a concept about presentations and how to improve them. The aim is to share ideas about presentations and their construction, design and delivery to keep the message from being lost, in time, like tears in rain. If you’re looking for a mission statement, you’ll find it here.

Originally this site was a series of blog posts. As the library grew, I decided to reorganise them as a resource structured around the p cubed idea. Use the pull-down menu to find key posts and the most recent uploads in each category. Each post essentially answers a single question with links to other posts to give further explanations on specific topics. If you want to catch up on the latest posts go here.

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

The science of fail is a discussion of the educational and psychological science behind the reasons presentations, as we currently know them, fail.

It’s important to construct a presentation in this order: firstly, determine the message (p1); then illustrate that message (p2) and then prepare for its delivery (p3). The standard approach, beginning with the slides is hysteron proteron, wherein you put the cart before the horse.

Once you understand this structure, check out the series of step-by-step guides on how to do a presentation #htdap

Check out the FAQ page for quick answers to any questions you have.

There’s a series of guest blogs from colleagues who have used this technique to improve their presentations. If you would like to add your voice, please let me know.

You’ll find helpful podcasts on some of these issues, and I’m always looking for new topics. I’ll also be adding a series of videos covering presentations to the site in the near future.

The blogs are published fairly regularly, and are often responses to questions and discussions from twitter. Please follow @ffolliet and join the discussion there. Each post has a comments section and this too should add to the debate.

Please don’t feel I have all the knowledge, join the debate on twitter and together, we can improve presentations.

I’ve started a series of webinars, check out the current options here.

Lastly, if you would like me to visit your place of work, a conference or organisation to give a p cubed presentation or run a workshop, then just leave a message. We can talk!

– Ross

with thanks to Ian Summers for his amazing photo.