by Denis Francois Gravel | Apr 8, 2018 | Language : English, Slides, Speaking Tips
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...
by Denis Francois Gravel | Oct 21, 2011 | Slides, Speaking Tips
Is there a new presentation method in town? What to think about Seth Godin short text « the atomic method of creating a PowerPoint presentation »? In a previous post about presentation design styles, I listed almost a dozens of methods. Is Seth Godin atomic method...
by Denis Francois Gravel | May 11, 2010 | Language : English, Slides, Speaking Tips
I am always surprised to discover that one of the biggest mistakes presenters do is still: Reading the slides. With all the information about speaking and presenting, easily available to everybody , I don’t understand. There are free blogs, books, articles. Jim...
by Denis Francois Gravel | Jan 15, 2010 | Language : English, Slides, Speaking Tips
I am not sure it was a good idea to accept this interview. While I was driving, ideas where popping in my head. How is it possible to have something to say to fill 25 min? Will I be interesting? You know, that kind of thing. It took less than 2 minutes to Davender to...
by Denis Francois Gravel | Jan 2, 2010 | Language : English, Slides, Speaking Tips
Most people complain about boring presentation that uses slides that looks like walls of text. The brain don’t have the ability to listen et read all that text at the same time. According to Microsoft, the average slide shows 40 words. The BBC...
