{"id":173,"date":"2013-08-15T13:37:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T13:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/2013\/08\/15\/so-i-was-wrong\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T11:57:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T11:57:37","slug":"so-i-was-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/so-i-was-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"So, I was wrong."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">I&#8217;ve got a confession. I was wrong. I don&#8217;t think you lot are up to it.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;\"><br \/>The best way to construct a presentation is to construct a story (p1), storyboard that idea and then consider supporting media for that story. Everyone ignores me. They sit down, open up their computer and put the whole thing straight into <a href=\"http:\/\/prezentationskills.blogspot.co.uk\/2013\/06\/changing-your-slides-wont-improve-your.html\" target=\"_blank\">powerpoint<\/a>. THEN they ask how they can make things better. I&#8217;ve explained over and over again why that doesn&#8217;t work; the problem is mine I have failed. The reason I have failed is unclear but is partly due to the complete volte face that is required, the <a href=\"http:\/\/prezentationskills.blogspot.co.uk\/2013\/06\/caught-up-within-single-style-of-visual.html\" target=\"_blank\">years of doing it the bad way<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/prezentationskills.blogspot.co.uk\/2013\/06\/on-ditching-bulletpoints-personal.html\" target=\"_blank\">the difficulty in approaching something stressful in a different way<\/a>.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;\"><br \/>SO, if you can&#8217;t abandon your dependency and insist on constructing &#8220;Powerpoints&#8221; then please, just for me, consider <a href=\"http:\/\/prezentationskills.blogspot.co.uk\/2013\/08\/reduce-reduce-reduce.html\" target=\"_blank\">reducing dramatically the words on your slides<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/prezentationskills.blogspot.co.uk\/2013\/04\/add-picture-thatll-make-it-better.html\" target=\"_blank\">add decent images<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/prezentationskills.blogspot.co.uk\/2013\/04\/clip-art.html\" target=\"_blank\">NEVER clip art<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/prezentationskills.blogspot.co.uk\/2013\/05\/one-change-dramatic-improvement-you-wont.html\" target=\"_blank\">practice<\/a> more than two times. IF you do that, <a href=\"http:\/\/prezentationskills.blogspot.co.uk\/2013\/06\/read-these.html\" target=\"_blank\">really do all that<\/a>, and then reflect on honest feedback you receive, I am convinced you will notice the improvement and having listened to yourself three times then you will consider making the bigger and more effective change to starting with the laptop closed and just a piece of paper and pen.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pastormikelandry.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/planning-pencil-and-paper.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/pastormikelandry.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/planning-pencil-and-paper.jpg\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got a confession. I was wrong. I don&#8217;t think you lot are up to it.The best way to construct a presentation is to construct a story (p1), storyboard that idea and then consider supporting media for that story. Everyone ignores me. They sit down, open up their computer and put the whole thing straight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,21],"tags":[248,282],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-p1","category-practise","tag-p3","tag-practise"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>So, I was wrong. - p cubed presentations<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/so-i-was-wrong\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"So, I was wrong. - p cubed presentations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I&#8217;ve got a confession. 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