A friend of mine sent me this link: http://youtube.com/watch?v=7-ZnPE3G_YY today. It’s very mildly offensive but if you can cope with a someone taking the mickey out of Songs of Praise, have watch/listen.
What it shows, pretty clearly, I think, is that we’re visual animals: you know they can’t be sining the words you see on the screen but somehow that’s what you hear. I suggest presentations aren’t much different in one way.
You have the screen with your PowerPoint (or whatever) on it and you have you standing, talking. Given how important we now know words are compared to what you hear, which are your audience going to concentrate on first?
Dead right - as I’ve said before (and will say again!) your audience will concentrate on your screen first and if you’ve got a bad slide, with too many words on it, they can’t help but ignore you and concentrate on it for a while. So what’s the solution? Simple, strip your slides down to the absolute basics. Instead of sentences have phrases; instead of phrases have words; instead of words have images.
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