There’s an (old) article here that suggests it is! (It’s just a shame that I couldn’t comment on the article on the original site )
Despite seeing the carnage of death by PowerPoint so often I deserve a medal I’m not absolutely convinced. Yes, there’s a lot of bad things about it and [...]
are never as good as mine!
Actually, this stuff is great. Nice, clean simple and obvious - like all the best tips.
I particularly like the ideas about starting with a big sheet of paper (and never a computer!) when you plan your presentation so you can see how the whole thing fits [...]
Presenting is a tricky thing, isn’t it? The pitfalls are many - and sometimes the things that go wrong aren’t always your fault. Sometimes it’s just things like a venue with shockingly bad accoustics.
I’ve been working lots recently for Dance City, on their “DanciNG the World!” festival. Their space isn’t big (it seats only about [...]
I’ve come across this advice about making presentations in quite a few places over the years, and while it sounds good, it’s somewhat limited (and occasionally even just plain wrong). I know it’s usually meant well - spoken by a friend just before a terrified speaker goes up on stage in a last minute attempt [...]
Here’s a really (and I mean really) simple tip for helping with your PowerPoint presentations. Take the damned words out! Leave only the barest of essentials.
Why? Because it increases your audience’s ability to do two things. Firstly, their ability to remember what you’ve told them goes up (28%) and their ability to apply [...]
Presentation skills trainers make a lot of fuss made about the ‘fact’ that only “7% of communication lies in the words” we use. The rest is split between the way you say it and the para-linguistics (body language and all that jazz) that go with it. The figures are often cited, but less often understood….
As [...]