p2

The supportive media (p2) is everything that adds to the story (p1) in its delivery (p3) whether as a presentation or visual aids. If you have visited the site looking for tips on using powerpoint, you will be disappointed. The discussion is around design concepts, use of text in slides, images and data slides used to illustrate and support the message. It is the least important part of a presentation and some presentations may even be better without slides! Most importantly, the .ppt file is not your presentation.

Cornerstone posts include.

p2 posts

How much data is too much data?

I recently had the privilige of presenting to the Dept. Paediatric Urology at Toronto Sick Kids Hospital. They were generally taken with the idea of a new method of presenting…

Your powerpoint is not an autocue

One of the reasons some speakers are unwilling to change their presentation style is that their supportive media (p2) is actually an autocue; they simply read from it. This fails…

Illustrate, don’t annotate.

The route to a better presentation has been detailed in many previous blog posts. If I could give you only one tip to improve your next presentation it would be…

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…

I’m sorry…

…for this busy slide. I’m sorry I didn’t think this through as well as I might.I’m sorry that I don’t actually care very much about this topic.I’m sorry that I…

  • Which part of your preparation took the most time?

    A great presentation takes time. None of them…

  • reflections on failure

    So, I stepped onto the stage to give…

  • Ok, hands up who DIDN’T fall for it?

    The last blogpost was written and published 2…

  • Design- going retro is hip.

    Slide design (p2) changes with time. Consider today…

  • A red rectangle doesn’t make things clearer

    A bad data slide is not made better…

  • On speaking to a wider audience. Don’t.

    The message you deliver at a presentation may…

  • Design nightmare

    Designers are clever folk and too often abused….

  • On flow charts. Don’t.

    No, just no.Life isn’t like that. It doesn’t…

  • This is a document. I am reading it. Out.

    If you turn on the radio, you can…

  • The best title slide blogpost, ever (ii)

    How does one arrive at a great title…