How to structure a presentation (particularly research/technical ones)
Presentations for research/technical stuff need a different approach to ‘sales’ or ‘self development’ presentations…
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Telling stories in your presentation in under ten seconds
Telling stories that are only ten seconds long is the best option for most presentations…
How do explain complex things quickly in my presentation?
Explaining very complicated things quickly in a presentation is hard. Here’s a handy tool!
Slides have four dimensions!
Something I’ve noticed recently is that (despite people ignoring all the evidence and advice to design their presentations using PowerPoint instead of going non-digital) when it comes to the look of their actual slides they still think like it’s a piece of paper. Paper only has two dimensions – along and up (or X and …
Make your ideas matter more
Make your ideas matter. NO ONE cares if you’ve got the best idea in the world if you can’t tell anyone about it… just like no one can borrow the best book in the library if it’s on the wrong shelf so no one can find it. The most common problem I fight in my …
Metro presents…
Nexus is the organisation that runs the local Metro transport system near me. Before we go any further I should add that I love the Metro and use it whenever I’ve got the option. One of the things they do that I like is to present Metro reliability information pretty publicly — and kudos to …
The two presentation “so what”s for a business presentation
Yes, there really are two and you need them both for your business presentation to have much significant impact. They’re heavily related questions and I’m not even sure you can answer them individually… so pretty obviously I’m going to look at them separately 🙂 You might think of them as the same question asked in …
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The T-shaped learning curve!
T-shaped learning curves are a pain. Let’s pretend you’re great at doing X, so you get promoted to be a Senior X-er. You still excel, so eventually you get promoted again – this time to Head of X. And that’s when the pain begins. So now you’re in charge you you’re not (just?) doing X, …
Presentations and a finch’s beak
I’m a fan of the author Ursula Le Guin. What I didn’t know until recently was that she also did a lot of reviews. In her review of a book called “The mushroom at the end of the world” she observed that “Scientists and artists know that the way to handle an immense topic is …