Repeat questions before answering them. Especially if the room is big. Repeating the question allows all participants to hear the question (especially if you are using a microphone). Remember that the participant who asked the question was projecting his voice towards...
Avoid text-heavy slides. Simplify, simplify and simplify. Too much text forces the audience to invest a good share of their cognitive capacity to read, decipher, interpret, and understand your slides. As a result, he pays less attention to what you say. A good visual...
A visit to Toronto is the source of today’s presentation tip. A city? Who inspires a presentation tip? It sounds strange. But that’s exactly what happened. Here’s how. I went to Toronto last November to do a training course at Laurentian Bank. Since the training is in...
Microsoft is announcing a new application in the Office suite: Sway. “An entirely different way to express yourself and bring your ideas to life”. Is this the end of PowerPoint?
Links and news about presentation gathered in last week (May 23, 2014) | Denis François Gravel | PRESENTability.com
Last week, Michael Bay, walked off stage at CES. What was the REAL cause of his meltdown and how he should bounce back from this.
Noah St. John won the Snap Judgement performance of the year. In his presentation he mastered storytelling and vocal variety. Pure mastery.
In 1968, Douglas Engelbart gave what should have been the technology breakthrough presentation of that time. Did you hear about it? Instead, if fell into oblivion. Why? How to avoid the same destiny for your presentations?
I came across this brilliant infographic illustrating the shapes of stories. As good presentations are built around a good story, I taught it would be the perfect « inspiration for the next presentation ». Enjoy!
Street art and presentation have many things in common. One of them is the need to use strong visual. Why? You only have a few of attention to convey your message.