Presentation and materials I used for my recently completed (11/14/13) presentation on presentation, "Why Not WOW? Reaching for the Spectacular Presentation" based off my book of the same title. For more information, please feel free to visit http://hrhiring.wordpress.com/, or email me, rcastle263@gmail.com

1. Why Not
WOW?
with Rex Castle

2. November, 2013, I flew
into North Carolina and
made my way to the
Pinehurst Resort to
present for a great
group, the North
Carolina Local
Government Information
Systems Association
(NCLGISA).

3. I began my Why Not WOW? (based off my book on
presentation and available through Amazon) with
the story of the worst presentation known to
man…mine.
The following slides have some text on
them. My slides, when I use a presentation
tool with slides, generally do not.

4. Using the science described by John Medina in his wonderful read,
Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work,
Home, and School, I ask my audience to tell me how long we have
from the time we get up until we first start losing our audience.

5. And I talk about
PUNCH from one of
Garr Reynolds’
exceptional reads.

6. The “P” stands
for Personal
(Again, none of these slides
have text on them just cool
pictures)

7. The “U” for
Unexpected

8. The “N”
for Novel

9. The “C” for
Challenge

10. And the “H” for the double-edge
sword of humor

11. This represents the other edge

12. I ask my audience, based off the science of
Hermann Ebbinghaus and his Forgetting Curve,
how long we have before we’ve lost more than
50% of what we just learned

13. With this animated slide we talk
for a few minutes about Chip &
Dan Heath’s incredible work

14. And a final question on memory
going back to Dr. Medina is how
long “can” it take to move
something to long-term memory

15. With this
animated slide
we discuss the
power positions
on a slide and
graphic
placement and
slide design and
color and…
My Q&A goes here, before my final
“Here you go. Go change the world!”

16. 45‒50 minutes later I end
with a conversation about
the science of
presentation primarily
from Cliff Atkinson’s
dynamic work, Beyond
Bullet Points: Using
Microsoft® PowerPoint®
to Create Presentations
that Inform, Motivate,
and Inspire

17. Why Not
WOW?
with Rex Castle

18. Handouts I
used in North
Carolina

19. I use an 11X17”
document that’s
folded once for an
8.5X11”, 4-page
handout.
This is my simple
title page

20. The inside page is an
exercise I have where I
ask them to list
“verbatim” all the
bullet points they
remember. To date,
I’ve had a couple of
people able to list one.

21. The opposite inside
page has my
“memory” team
exercise that allows
them to talk, move
around, learn
together, etc.

22. Some of the
resources I discuss
during my
presentation.