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HOW TO AVOID DEATH BY

PowerPoint


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Purpose

Whatisthepurpose ofmytalk?

Whatsthestoryhere?

Whatismycore/centralpoint?

WhatdoIwantthemtodo?

Thinkaboutthesemodifiers How

much

time

do

Ihave?

Whatisthevenuelike?

Whattimeoftheday?

Whoistheaudience?

Whatstheirbackground?

Whatdotheyexpectofme?

WhywasIaskedtospeak?

Whatvisualmediumismostappropriatefor

thisparticular

situation

and

audience?

EXPLORATION|Wearepowerfulandnaturalexplorers

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Purpose what do you want to say?

Is it clear?

Concept

Follow the four steps

Does it engage the audience?

Art

Does the art evoke the right response?

C ol or

Does the color create harmony?

Evaluation

Did you communicate what you wanted to?

Its all about Relationships

If your PowerPoint kills with its bullet point pain,Then this is a way to bring life back again.Our minds dont remember text in bullet points.After 3 things our memory slips, disappoints.

1.Startwiththeendinmind

2.Knowyouraudience

aswellaspossible

3.Content,content,content

4.Keepitsimple

5.Outliningyourcontent

6.Haveasound,clearstructure

7.Dakara nani?(sowhat?)

8.Canyoupassthe"elevatortest"?

9.Theartofstorytelling

10.Confidence Howtogetit

If your PowerPoint kills with its bullet point pain,Then this is a way to bring life back again.Our minds dont remember text in bullet points.

After 3 things our memory slips, disappoints.

But tell a p|Story, just like we are friendsI listen to how you think and comprehend.

Cause a p|Story tells you what you want to hear.It motivates and tells a story thats clear.

Be sure that you know that your Purpose is clearIt is why your p|Story will be treasured as dear.Make it simple, even though your p|Story may be

As complex as neuro-brain-physics would be.No matter how complex, no matter how boring,

Your purpose is why others wont be ignoringThe problem you want them to see, and that they

Will want to act different, in just the right way.

Seven Questions to Knowing Your Audience

Why are they here?

What do they think theyre going to get out of this presentation? Why did they come to hear you?Are they willing participants or mandatory attendees? This is also a bit of a situation analysis.

2

What keeps them up at night?

Everyone has a fear, a pain point, a thorn in the side. Let your audience know you empathizeandoffer a solution.

3

How can you solve their problem?

Whats in it for the audience? How are you going to make their lives better?

4

What do you want them to do?

Answer the question so what?and make sure theres clear action for your audience to take.

5

How can you best reach them?

People vary in how they receive information. This can include the set up of the room t o the availabilityof materials after the presentation. Give the audience what they want, how they want it.

6

How might they resist?

What will keep them from adopting your m essage and carrying out your call to action?

7

What are they like?

Demographics and psychographics are a great start, but connecting with your audience meansunderstanding them on a personal level. Take a walk in their shoes and describe what their lifelooks like each day.

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duarte.com 2008

Insert a representativepicture or illustration of anaudience member in thisrectangle. It helps to put aface on the audience.

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Concept

ATTENTION|Wedontpayattentiontoboringthings.

The blueprint to Purpose is Concept . And yourPath to the right one is stepping on four.

Concept

Exp lo re

Create

Advoca

Eva lua te

The blueprint to Purpose is Concept. And yourPath to the right one is stepping on four.The first step is making ideas, so Explore.Consider whatever may come through your door.

You might doodle, or write words, whatever do moreAnd whatever you do helps to make ideas galore.Dont judge them, each one is important. ExploreMany different ideas, you will want more than four.Dont settle for preconceived notions. IgnoreThat the only way there is one path. Do not Score!Keep your judgment on hold. There is always an ORThat is waiting to spring from your mind. Except forThe time that your mind is stuck tight in a drawer.No ideas. It is gone. Inspiration wont pour.No matter, we all sometimes will fight that stuck war.Ideas are asleep, and our mind wants to snore.Go backwards and forwards, provoke what is storedIn the cracks of your mind. It will come. Stuck no more.

Step 2 is Create. It is time to transformThe ideas you explored and poured out in a storm.Disjointed ideas come together to formMany different shapes. It is time to perform.

Step 3 is the judgment time - Evaluate.Now is the time to consider whats great.The ideas that were foolish, and just didnt rateCan be thrown in the trash. But they helped you create.

You pick the best one. Look it over, debateif its right for the Purpose that up front you state.

The best one is clear. It has the right traitTo communicate something you want to relate.

Now youve got the idea! Step 4 isAdvocateThat the one that youve got is the best one. It great!Proceed with excitement. Its time to createThe art that will fulfill the Purpose you state.

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Concept |Story

SURVIVAL|

Thehumanbrain

evolved,too

FromBeyondBulletPoints|Atkinson www.beyondbulletpoints.com


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Fontstyle

SanSerifforscreens

Atleast24 30point,andonly2 stylesperslide

CAPSarehardtoread.UseUpperandlowercase.

Text

Onethoughtorideaperslide

Phrasesnotsentences.(Shouldallstartwitheither nounsorverbs)

Minimalism!!

6X6Rule(ifnecessary,useahandoutforcomplex information)

Sequential?Usenumbers.

Ideas?Usebullets.

Graphics

Addstocomprehension,somakethemrelevant

Askyourself:WhyamIaddingthispicture?

Avoidtoomanymodels(Youwanttohavea

memorable

presentation,right?)

Art

VISION|Visiontrumpsallothersenses

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The goal of the ART is to dramatically makeyour idea come alive, and the viewer partakeIn a P-story that helps them discover that theyAre a part of the story. And they agree, Yes okay!

Ar t

The goal of theART is to dramatically makeThe concept breathe in, and the viewer partakeIn a p|Story that helps them discover that they

Are a part of the story. And they agree, yes, okay.

(Now art is not something that everyone feelsThey can make, so they hide and make excuses and squeals.But often our brains replace icons insteadof the creative stuff that we contain in our head.)But many create, go on-line, look around.There is clip art and photos and more that abound.

Your judgment is now what you need and must chooseFrom the millions of choices that you will peruse.

Consider the Line, Shape and Texture of eachConsider the audience you want to reach.Be it graphic, symbolic, realistic or text.

You want it to fit with your purpose, so next . . .Does the art evoke just what you want it to do?Does it reinforce concept, and give viewers the clueThat will help them remember and help them to takeThe actions that make this world be better, be great?

www.clipart.com

SwissArmy

KnifeGraphic (art)

Realistic (photo) Symbolic | Text

Chartsand

Graphs

Usethicklinestoshowtrends.

Usebrightcolorsforlines

Fivelinesorbarsmaxpergraph

Guidetheeyetothemainpointof the

chart(arrow,title,color,box,etc)

Shortennumbers(2007=07,$10,436.77=$10.4on anaxisforthousands)

SeeVisualThinkingCodexforbestgraphictype


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Charts & Graphs


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Layout

Cleananduncluttered

Whitespace useit!

6X6rule=6words/line6lines/slide

Animation

Usesparinglyandmeaningfully.Askyourself,

Does usinganimationenhancethemessage?

Dont

annoythe

viewer.

GoodrulesforBuilds

Wiperightfortext

Zoomsworkwellforphotosandimages

Arrowsgoingdown?Usewipefromthetop

SlidetransitionsareOKaslongastheyare

consistentlyused

STRESS|Stressedbrainsdontlearnthesameway.

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L a y o u t s the white space, the balance and moreIt considers relationships, rhythms and yourThoughts and ideas that will fill in the spaceThat our purpose intended to help you embrace.

Balance

White space

Entrance and Flow

L a y o u t

A p|Story starts with an Entrance, becauseOur eye looks at one place to start. It just does!The Flow of the placement of parts that togetherHelp guide us along like the quill of a feather.

Design is the white space, the balance and more

It considers relationships, rhythms and yourThoughts and ideas that will fill in the spaceThat our purpose intended to help you embrace.

Consider consistency, visual clues,That help guide the viewer to carefully chooseWhat to look at, what order? The font and the flowAre important to make it effective, you know.

CustomizeyourtoolbarinPowerPointwithyourfavoritetools

These are mine

1

Entrance

iswhereyoustart

FLOW

Wheredoestheeyegonext?

3

usea

GRID

forconsistency

4

Ivegotwhitespace

5

>Ivegotrhythm

1

3rdworlds

Ivegotbalanceisthe

Whocouldaskforanythingmore?

Sizematters

well . . .

Isimportantwhat

Layout iswhathelps

yousee

DoyouthinkthisLayout waseffective?

anyquestions?Originalideafromslide:ology


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Color

Theory

Relationshipbetweencolors

Keepitsimple

Useamaximumof 3 colorgroups.

Physical

Whatcoloris theobject?

Whatis

most

important?

Psychological

Relationshipofcolortoourfeelings

Bright colors happy,simple(childish)

Greyertones sophisticated,classic(boring)

Eachcolorevokespersonalfeelings

Balance

Relationshipofmajorandminor

All

colors

are

seen

at

the

same

time Contrast

Relationshipoflight todark

Considercolorblindissues

Avoidred/green together

SHORTTERMMEMORY|RepeattoRemember.

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Colors not seen in its separate parts.

You see it together, like music in art.Relationships key. Take a look at the chartThat shows how it fits and just where you can start.

Relationship between colors

Relationship of color to our feelin

Contrast

Balance

Theory

Physical

Psycological

Relationship ocolor to obje

Relationship of Major and Minor areas

Relationship of light to dark

Co l o r

www.creativepro.com

Colors like music thats heard with our eyesThe colors of yellow, green, red, blue will surprise,They touch deep in our hearts, and they also suppliesThe harmony that make art soar to high highs.

To make the most impact, you just keep it simple!(A smile is enhanced by the simplest dimple.)

Color is not seen in its separate parts.You see it together, like music in art.Relationships key. Take a look at the chartThat shows how it fits and where you can start.

Contrast and balance and theory togetherWith emotional links make a wonderful teatherTo guide all our choices, and help us do better

At joining our art with our heart and our letters


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Evaluate

Isthepurpose soclearthatweunderstandwhy?

Istheconcept sogooditengagesmyeye?

Doestheart evokejustwhatyouwantittodo?

Doesthelayout helpstartyouandcarryyou

through?

Isthecolor sosimple,createsharmony?

Doesit

all

work

together

to

help

us

agree?

LONGTERMMEMORY|Remembertorepeat

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If our P-story does what we want it do,Then we ask all these questions, E v a l u a t e whoWill be moved by the purpose, and concept and art,By the color and layout that helps us to start.

Pu r po s e Co n ce p t A r t La y o u t E v a l u a teColor

E v a l u a t e

A p|Story helps us to realize whyWe must live in relationships, and we must tryTo use what our hearts and our brains and our handsCan create so our story well all understand.

Nospellingerrorsorsloppygrammar.

Lessismore

Toomany

slides

aretoo

many

slides!

Its all about relationships


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Make Presentation

Practice Practicewithvideotapeagainandagain,tobuildconfidence

Youdontgetasecondchancetomakeafirstimpression

Practiceyourpresentationasifyouweredeliveringyourpresentation

Embraceanxiety,itgivesyouenergyandpassion

Useyourpresentationvolumewhenpracticing

Sitinthemostdistantchairfromthescreen&runthroughslides

Practiceyourentirepresentationincludingtheslides

Memorizationleads

to

speeding

up

your

delivery

Usethekeypointsinyourslidesasthefoundationforconversation

Themainpurposeofyourintroductionistobuildarelationshipwiththeaudience

Partnership Customizethecontenttofittheneedsoftheaudience

Stepawayfromthepresentationandengagetheaudiencewithanopenquestion

Lookdirectlyattheasker,nodyourhead,butstepawaytoengagethewholeaudiencewhenanswering

Noaudienceparticipation=sleeptime

Glanceatthepictureonthebackofthewall

Neverinterruptanaudiencemembersquestion

Givetheaudienceachangeofstate

Minglewiththeaudiencepriortoyourpresentation

Remember,neverinterruptandaudiencemembersquestionbutwithadifficultaudiencemember ignore(raisedhand),setlimits,writequestions,defer

Rememberyouraudiencewantsyoutosucceed

Professionalism/Performance Presentfromtheheartnotacannedpresentation

Thecomponentsofvoiceare:breathing;vocalcordvibrationandthevoiceasitresonatesoutofthemouth

CheckyourVoiceVitality www.voicetrainer.com

Anchoryourselfonaudiencesleftsideoftheroom

Beata45degreeangletotheaudience restposition

Parallelyourshoulderstotheaudiencewhenyouaremakingacriticalpoint powerposition

Talkto

people

not

to

objects

Movearoundincludingmovingclosertoyouraudience

Reachouttotheaudiencewithpalm(s)up

Uhsandandsdiminishyourauthorityasapresenterandmakeyouseemunprepared

Props Usetheb,w,or.Keystobringtheaudienceattentionbackto

you

Iftechnologyfails,dontpanic,rememberIknowmyoutline,mymaterial.

PowerfulPresentations LarryFergusonFDOT

SLEEP|Sleepwell,thinkwell.

Usethespeakernotes(preprinted)

Focusonthecontentandtheaudience.

Donttalktothescreen

Avoidstandinginfrontofthescreenor

blockinganyonesviewwiththescreenof

thelaptop.

Inconclusion:

Ididnotwasteyourtime

Iknewwhoyouwereandwhyyoucame

Iwasorganized

Iwasinterestingandconversational

Iknewmysubject

Ihighlightedrepeatedlythemost

importantpoints

Iamfinished,Ienjoyedmakingthis

presentation.
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2009TeachAmerica AspresentedbyFrankBroen&SueFody atthe2009InternationalAllianceforLearningConference

BrainRule

Accelerated Learning

WIRING|Everybrainiswireddifferently.

BasedonProfessionalLearningStrategies:M.Tate2006


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FrankBroenisPresidentofTeachAmerica.Utilizing

themostcosteffectivetoolstodeliverdirect,

effectiveprograms,TeachAmericaspecializesin

creatingmediathatisusedbystateandfederal

agenciesforuseintrainingandcommunicating

transportationissues.Formedin1979,TeachAmerica

strivestoexceedexpectationsineverytaskit

undertakes.TeachAmericaworksasapartnerto

createinnovativeproductsthathelpboth

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and

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newcomers

understandandapplyimportantconcepts.We

produceconferenceproceedingswithcompleteA/V

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EXERCISE|Exerciseboostsbrainpower

SENSORYINTEGRATION|Stimulatemoreofthesenses

GENDER|Maleandfemalebrainsaredifferent

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