This document summarizes key principles for effective presentations. It discusses three principles of presentation zen: restraint, simplicity, and naturalness. It also outlines six principles of sticky ideas: simplicity, unexpectedness, concreteness, credibility, emotions, and stories. Finally, it provides tips for brainstorming ideas through analog methods like using post-it notes, identifying core themes, and storyboarding presentations with restraint and editing. The overall message is that effective presentations focus the message, violate expectations, engage emotions, and tell compelling stories.

1. Presentation
Presentation
Dr Ashley Casey

2. Two Key
Questions

3. So what?

4. Why does it matter?

5. If you know this you
might pass...

6. If you know this you might pass
the elevator test
...the elevator test

7. Three of the Principles of
presentation zen

8. restraint
1

9. think
subtract
not add

10. Signal
Noise Ratio
vs

11. simplicity
2

12. simplicity is the ultimate
sophistication
- Leonardo da Vinci

13. by stripping down an image to the
essential meaning
an artist can amplify that meaning
- Scott McCloud

14. naturalness
3

15. Japanese believe that in expressing the whole
the interest
of the viewer is lost

17. You must unlearn
what you have learned
- Yoda

18. Six Principles of
Sticky ideas

19. simplicity
1

20. A one sentence statement so
profound
that an individual spends a lifetime
learning to follow it.

21. proverbs
are ideal

22. What’s the core
message?
llavero "Quilmes"

23. What’s the key
point?

24. unexpectedness
3

25. interest
and curiosity

26. we need to
violate
people’s expectations

27. open holes in
people’s knowledge

28. Take them on a journey

29. concreteness
4

30. let’s kill two birds
with one stone

31. let’s work towards maximising
our research output while
improving the quality of our
teaching by being research
informed and cutting edge...

32. let’s work towards maximising
our research output while
improving the quality of our
teaching by being research
informed and cutting edge...

33. let’s work towards maximising
our research output while
improving the quality of our
teaching by being research
informed and cutting edge...

34. credibility
4

35. Some of us
have it

36. Some of us need to help
people visualise
our ideas

37. 12 hours of
Battery life

38. enough battery to fly
to Japan

39. emotions
5

40. Make them
feel something

41. 100 grams of fat

42. stories
6

43. Documentaries are not just
facts

44. they engage us in and tell us
the story

45. brain storming
1

46. Step back

47. go analog

48. no editing

49. grouping
and identifying the core
2

50. look for the one
key idea

51. what is the
“it”

52. the unifying
theme

53. maybe the
sub themes

54. storyboarding
off the computer
3

55. sketch out your
story
in post-it notes

56. now present it
to a friend

57. now
re-story it

58. storyboarding
on the computer
4

59. create
1 slide
with a text box in favourite font size 30+

60. duplicate the slide and
insert your ideas

61. editing and
restraint
5

62. Presentation
Presentation
Dr Ashley Casey