The Art of Presentation. Following the ZEN path. WHY

SEMINAR (I)

Alberto de Vega Eduardo S. de la Fuente

Zen Rocks by Lane Pierce

Following the ZEN path

Why? Preparation Design Delivery Resources

Handful of statistics

Common mistakes

Consequences

Change

TABLE OF CONTENTS T H E A R T O F P R E S E N T A T I O N

A H A N D F U L O F

STATISTICS

Almost every PowerPoint presentation

sucks rotten eggs

“ ”

Seth Godin

of presentations SUCK “ Guy Kawasaky

”% 95

A H A N D F U L O F

STATISTICS

Guy Kawasaky

” % 99 Don’t suck

Suck

It’s actually OK, maybe I’m exaggerating. “

A H A N D F U L O F

STATISTICS

[…] they are so seduced by style that they lose the substance. They worry about slide templates, images, movies, fonts, clothes, hair, and the rest, forgetting to

do the harder and more important work of thinking deeply about what points they want to make.

Scott Berkun

A H A N D F U L O F

STATISTICS



Common mistakes

Consequences

Change



TELEPROMPTING

1. People tend to put every word they are going to say on their PowerPoint slides. Although this eliminates the need to memorize your talk, ultimately this makes your slides crowded, wordy, and boring. You will loss your audience’s attention before you even reach the bottom of your …

2008. Don McMillan. Life After Death By PowerPoint. All rights reserved

1. Continued) … First slide.

Don McMillan Technically Funny

TELEPROMPTING


SPELLING M I S T A K E S

2.  Many people do not run spel cheek before there presentation – BIG MISTAK!!! Nothing makes you lok stupder than speling erors


BULLET P O I N T I N G

•  Avoid •  Excesive •  Buller-Pointing •  Only •  Bullet •  Key •  Points •  Too •  Many •  Bullet-Points

•  And •  Your •  Key •  Messages •  Will •  NOT •  Stand •  Out •  In fact •  The Term

•  “Bullet-Point” •  Comes •  From •  People •  Firing •  Guns •  At •  Annoying •  Presenters


  What it is worst

—  Too many bullet point levels are shown

–  Type size gets smaller and smaller

–  Until it is utterly unreadable

–  Even for audiences in the 4th row

—  So you better have just one bulletpoint level

–  Better yet, forget about bullets (bullets, not guns, kill people. Don’t you know?)

–  Use them sparingly

–  There are many other ways of detiling your ideas!

TOO MANY L E V E L S

C O L O R S C H E M E S

GONE WRONG

N Classhing

color schemes can lead to…

• Distraction • Confusion • Headache • Nausea • Vomiting • Loss of bladder control


S O M E

SAMPLES

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Am I wrong? Let’s see some samples…

The viewing of the next sample slides may result in permanent damages to unwary audiences.

S A M P L E

SLIDES

Warning

A C M E CORPORATION

3 A C M E CORPORATION

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1

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postage stamps? Don’t you love

the space filling

A C M E CORPORATION


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postage stamps? Shall we add

some

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right? Way better

A C M E CORPORATION

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highlighted Thank God

someone the important things, right?

V I D E O

DEMO

Life after death (by PowerPoint)



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©2005 BBC. All Rights Reserved

AU DI ENCI ES

FLOCK TO OUR PERFORMANCES

more One

preso?

DISASTROUS R E S U L T S

it ends … By

the time

T H E U S U A L

SUSPECTS

Right? Microsoft’s the culprit

how Nobody told us

to make it

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T H E U S U A L

SUSPECTS

W A N T T O

CHANGE?

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Time For Change by David Reece

THE ONLY C O N S TA N T I S

CHANGE M E A N S

Challenging the status quo

Enthralled Audience por renaissancechambara

Engaging with the audience

CHANGE M E A N S

Hands Week – Point por Jeezny

you can! Yes,

YOU CAN C H A N G E !

Slideument

Informal

Preso

Zen

battleground

Formal

Based on Nancy Duarte’s “Presentations Landscape”

WHAT DO WE

PROPOSE

WHAT DO WE

PROPOSE

ideal An

+ world

bites Reality

+

WHAT DO WE

PROPOSE

Based on Nancy Duarte’s “Slide:ology”

S O , N O W

WHAT

ecosystem Presentation

Message

Visual History

Delivery

Presentation

THERE IS MORE

T H A N M E E TS T H E EY E

enjoy Did you

the experience?

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