Part 2: Short, Sharp & Shiny
This is the second part of a six part series on presentation tips. The first part (Preparation, Preparation, Preparation) can be found here.It is almost a given that all of us have snoozed sat through a few presentations before. It could be fair to say that at times we probably wished we hadn’t had the pleasure of this experience.
The question you should ask yourself is, why? What made you lose interest, why did you have difficulty following? People will lose interest if you overload them with information or if it takes too much concentration to follow. Keep in mind that you are the presenter, and so you are doing the work, so you should be making it easy for you audience to follow.
One important thing you should also remember is something called the Rule of Three, which effectively says that you will only remember things in threes. While you may scoff, how many of us still remember Stop, Look & Listen, or even Slip, Slop, Slap? The next question then, is, how many remember what the fourth word was in Slip, Slop, Slap??? How many remember what all four words meant?
Politicians, story writers all take advantage, whether consciously or not, of this fact, to drive home key points. What you should do in your presentations is limit what you are trying to say to three key things, and drive them into your audience. They won’t remember any more anyway, so don’t bore your audience with it.
Part 3: Slideshows will be posted within the next week.
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