We've all sat through too many presentations that bore us to tears.

1. Presentations
Why we switch off
Conor Mc Elhinney
!

2. Why you’re here
is
simple

3. Too many boring
presentations

4. Bored Audience

5. Bored Audience = Distracted Audience

6. Bored Audience = Distracted Audience

7. Bored Audience = Distracted Audience
I’m at a
presentatio
n

8. Bored Audience = Distracted Audience
No it’s CRA
P

9. What does this slide tell us?

10. That the presenter doesn’t care

11. Garr Reynolds

12. Garr Reynolds
What would presenters do today?

13. Garr Reynolds

14. Garr Reynolds

15. We know
Better Exists

17. This talk

18. This talk
Common Sense
Common Practice

19. Developing a
SKILL
Not using a Tool

20. We start here

21. Then grab slides

23. What to do?
Research, learn
and apply skills

24. Visual
Presenting
Story
Telling
Design
Preparation
Skills
Simplify
Creativity

25. Build a philosophy
or
Build an ideology
or
Build an understanding of presenting
With these skills

26. Whats my philosopy?
“To positively
impact the majority
of the audience.”

27. Why do we present?

28. phone
Video
Conference
papers
video
Communication
websites
email
posters
meetings
Alternatives?

29. Why
present?

30. Feedback
Sell
yourself
An idea
Excite
Test out
new ideas
Draw
Attention
To connect with a large audience

31. GET
ATTENTION
and keep it

32. Slides are an aide

33. We’re afraid

34. So we
create

35. Who is this for?

36. This isn’t a conclusion

37. “If you’re not prepared to
be wrong, you’ll never
come up with anything
original.”
- Sir Ken Robinson

38. What next

39. S C O P E
DEPTH

40. Scope
Depth
Scope
Depth
scope OR depth

41. Scope
Time
Typical presentation

42. Scope
Intro
Conclusion
Detail
Time
Typical presentations

43. A better
way

44. Scope
Time
A presentation heartbeat

45. What is?
Whats crap about now?
Nancy Duarte

46. What will be?
What amazing things will
the future hold?

47. How can WE
get there?

48. Audience is royalty

49. We pitch at expert

50. If we’re lucky

51. Blow them away with details

52. But my
topic is
complicated

53. #3 talk

54. #3 talk
NEUROSCIENCE

55. Audience is royalty
What are they like?

56. Why are
they here?

57. What do
you want
from them?

58. How can
you best
reach them?

59. How might
they resist?

60. Pretty Pictures

61. We give the audience a bad choice
• You see, when you read out loud the exact text that is on
the screen the audience will notice this.!
!
• Now if you are doing this its pretty likely that you will lose
the interest of some of the audience. Those that are still
attentive have two options at this stage; listen to you or
read off the screen. !
!
• Most will read off the screen as they realise that they can
read faster than you can talk. So if you do this you’ve
managed to get all of your audience to just listen to you or
to just read the text or do neither!
Contact: conormce@cs.nuim.ie

62. Attention
Not
Distraction

63. Vision
dominates
brain
50%

64. Change
Colour
Change
Position
Change
Form
Movement
Preattentive attributes

65. Spot the difference

68. Pictures!
aide!
memory

69. Visual thinking
200,000!
Years older
Written thinking

70. Picture only
Text only
0%
50%
Recognition
John Medina
100
%

71. Hear a piece of information, in 3
days you’ll remember 10%

72. Add a picture and you’ll
remember 65%

73. Rule of thumb
John Medina

74. We’re doing
it wrong

75. Preparation

76. Whats my process
Audience

77. Purpose
Goals

78. Content

79. Slides

80. Practice

86. Signal
Noise

87. HEADER
Use the
full slide
Contact: conormce@cs.nuim.ie

88. Whitespace is
your friend

89. Structure / Consistency

90. Light Med Dark
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Colour scheme
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91. For displaying lots of text like
sentences, use Serif fonts
Georgia
HEADLINES!
Sans Serif
GILL SANS
Fonts

92. Always

93. engadget
Why 3D?

94. Charles Arthur
To obscure information

95. 49%
0%
RIM
Other
Apple
Palm
Nokia
Motorola
Same info different takehome

96. One Slide
ONE POINT

97. Communicate an
idea not show
details

98. References:
1)
!
Detailed description:
The background to this ....
!
Slides
Presenter !
notes
Details
Handouts

99. “Be clear first and
clever second. If you
have to throw one of
those out, throw out
clever.”
- Jason Fried

100. Design!
not
Decorate

101. Main Point
Main Point
Main Point
Repetition

102. Photoshop
Tools

103. “If your presentation is
done well, people will
not notice or care what
software you used.”
- Garr Reynolds

104. brain rules
slide:ology
Now you see
it
presentation
zen
John Medina Nancy Duarte Stephen Few Garr Reynolds

105. Presenting is a
SKILL
Its not about the Tool
conormc@gmail.com