Here’s a quick way to make over a bullet-point slide
August 13, 2009
It’s called the Assertion-Evidence Format and it was developed by Professor Michael Alley (I’ve mentioned it previously but somehow never devoted a whole post to it).
BTW, if you’ve downloaded and read my Presentation Planning Guide, you’ll see that this slide format dovetails nicely with the planning system I describe in the Guide.
First let’s look at the Assertion part of the format. [Read more]
15 ways to improve your presentations in 2009
December 31, 2008
This is a big meaty post with 15 ways to improve your presentations. These ideas are designed to challenge you to stretch yourself. With each idea I’ve pointed you to further resources from fellow presentation bloggers or from my own archives.
Choose one or two to work on at a time. Bookmark this post, so that once you’ve implemented those, you can come back and work on some more during the year.
1. Customise your presentations for each audience
A critique of Malcolm Gladwell
December 4, 2008
Garr Reynolds from Presentation Zen has highlighted several presentations from Malcolm Gladwell. Malcolm Gladwell is a master storyteller in his books. He carries that through in his presentations. Watch the video – then read my analysis below for what you can learn from Malcolm Gladwell and his presentation style.
What Gladwell did well
Robbery at Bullet-Point
October 2, 2008
This is a guest post from Tony Burns, my life-partner and co-trainer at Effective Speaking.
Every so often an audacious robbery occurs in full view – yet nobody notices.
Late last year, Dublin Police launched a new crime prevention program called Freeflow. On the very same day a lone man drove a truck into Dublin’s Guinness brewery, hitched it to a trailer and drove out the security gates with 450 kegs of beer.
The power of anecdotal evidence
July 26, 2008
In your business presentations, you may be tempted to stick to hard, proven facts and statistics to persuade your audience. But a powerful anecdote can trump objective facts.
The power of the anecdote
1. Vaccinations and autism
