“If you strive for simplicity,you are more likely to reach the viewer”

William Albert Allard

There is a problem with slideware…

You hit “New Slide” and you get something like

this …

Let’s try again !

Problem ?

TooManyBullet pointsToo wordy

With lots of sub-bullets to elaborate the point

Result = Audience asleep

Even this version does not exactly

light up the room, does it ?

Maybe once more ?

Most presenters use slidewareto produce stuff like this …

Which makes audience …

Too many words, too many …

Another wee problem with putting

too much words on the screenMost people talk at …

150 wpm

Whereas most people read at …

250 wpm

When you give them something like this …

So when you put a huge number of words up on the screen like this, two things happen.(1) Audiences can read faster than you can talk, so they use all their brain capacity reading ahead, drawing their own conclusions and not really listening to you (2) they sit there, consciously or unconsciously thinking, “Why am I sitting here ? This bozo could just have emailed me his slides and I could have stayed at home !”

So, how can I migrate away from endless text in bullet

point format ?

EXAMPLE

Effective mentoring

Must-haves :• It is essential to the success of the process that the

mentor and novice have a clear vision of what it is that they want to accomplish together.

• The receptiveness of the inexperienced staff member is also vital.

• Plus, the mentor and less experienced staff member need to have time to meet regularly to discuss, plan and share ideas, and to observe and be observed by each other.

We have seen attempts to improve this kind of slide that

went this far …

Effective mentoring

Must-haves :• It is essential to the success of the process that the

mentor and novice have a clear vision of what it is that they want to accomplish together.

• The receptiveness of the inexperienced staff member is also vital.

• Plus, the mentor and less experienced staff member need to have time to meet regularly to discuss, plan and share ideas, and to observe and be observed by each other.

Slides like that make us …

Let’s try again !

Clarity

How about a small image ?

Plus one word which appears

uppermost ?

Effective mentoring

• It is essential to the success of the process that the mentor and novice have a clear vision of what it is that they want to accomplish together.

Thus, all of this becomes what you SAY, supported by the crispy visual, rather than something the audience

has to read

And all the guff that was cluttering up

the screen now goes to live down here

Clarity

Repeat twice more

Clarity Receptivity Time

So you still say it, but neither you

nor the audience reads it

It’s all about innovative imagination !

and

It’s all about innovative imagination !

has

NO LIMIT

“Communication is the transfer of emotion”

Seth Godin

Let’s see one more technique

Imagination is an

OCEAN

Pictures

Speak

Better

Than

Words

Try to improve your visual skill

Garr Reynolds said …

Just Remember

Practice

Practice

Practice

Did you get it ?

Go visual

Let the image tell your story

Absolutely NO bullet-points (till the end)

Design, DON’T decorate

Practice before presenting

RememberWhat Einstein once said

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