Presentation skills training

1. The purpose of training is to change behavior. Michael Allen

3. Studies on how people learn

4. Visual aids for training

5. PowerPoint design – good, bad, ugly

7. Talk it Out? Think it Out? Friendly? Hostile?

8. Rule #10 Vision trumps all other senses. Dr. John Medina Visual Aids

11. Retention – Three Days Later Six Times Greater See and hear

12. What can be done with fewer is done in vain with more. Edward Tufte on Occam’s razor Signal to Noise Ratio Excess is noise

14. Design makes things clear, but art – the stuff of emotions – makes us wonder. John Maeda, The Laws of Simplicity

17. Accentuate the Positive