When giving presentations, the only rule that matters is the rule of attention | Finite Attention Span. Recently I was discussing presentations with a friend who is a student. Although being asked to make a presentation is a fairly common part of the student experience, and he has a reasonable idea of what’s involved, nobody has ever taught him or his peers how to do it. Because I spend more time thinking about presentations than is strictly healthy, I offered to write my friend an email, summarising my thoughts. But once I got started, it very quickly turned into a monster email, the kind that people tend to skim once and then write a quick one-line reply along the lines of “Thanks, that looks really interesting — I’ll come back to it when I have more time,” maybe because they’re intimidated by the sheer volume and content of it all.
(Yeah, okay, this is really about me and how I procrastinate over reading emails that look like they will be hard work. You’re listening to WKLJ — the sound of guilty conscience.) Plus, numerous URLs turn email into hyperlink soup. Like this: Like Loading... Presentation Planning: The Seven Types of Presentation to Avoid. Have you inflicted one of these types of presentation on your audience? These seven types are all a result of a lack of planning or the wrong sort of planning.
I’ll be looking at how to avoid some of these presentation planning traps in a live webinar with Ellen Finkelstein next week. The webinar is on Wednesday 29th September at 4pm ET. Sign up here. 1. The “I want to tell you everything” presentation This presenter is in love with their topic and wants to share it all with you – every nuance, every subtlety, every story. If you’re guilty of this type of presentation, checkout this post How to avoid information overload in your presentation. 2.
The “grab bag” presentation is one where the presenter has a miscellany of points which are only loosely related to each other and appear in no structured order. The solution to the grab bag presentation is to plan your presentation around a key message. 3. This presentation contains point, after point, after point. 4. 5. 6. 7. Move your audience from attention to engagement. In my last post, I argued that you already have attention at the start of your presentation.
The task is not to grab attention, but to actively nurture the attention that you have and transform it into engagement. Here’s the difference between attention and engagement: If your audience is attentive you can pour information into them.If your audience is engaged they are sucking that information from you. Engagement is more valuable than attention.
Thinking in terms of engagement, rather than attention, has a number of benefits: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. So here are four ways to move your audience from attention to engagement. 1. To move from attention to engagement you need to sell your presentation. Let your audience know what benefits they will get from listening to your presentation. You’re answering the question “What’s in it for me?’ Quality How will your presentation improve the quality of their life or that of their organization? Time Money Human 2. “You’ll learn: 3. This will galvanize the audience. Audience-friendly-presentations. Designing Online Presentations with SlideRocket « Bcomm Teacher Xchange. September 2, 2011 at 2:28 pm rentzkc I spent a few hours today exploring SlideRocket–“the most elegant and feature-rich cloud-based presentations software” out there, according to a review in pcmag.com.
My verdict? This is definitely a resource that bcomm teachers should know about. SlideRocket—like GoogleDocs, SurveyMonkey, WordPress, or any number of other cloud-based applications—is an app that you create an account with and then use via the Web (as opposed to software that you download or upload to your own computer). The free version of SlideRocket enables you to design slide-based videos from scratch or import slide shows from PowerPoint or GoogleDocs and then enhance them. Each slide show you create is given its own URL for you to share with others, post on a website, or otherwise distribute (the free version does not allow you to save your show in any other form). But perhaps just as useful are the presentation-related resources on SlideRocket.com.
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