Saturday, April 26, 2014
The Surprising Advice That Will Make Your Next Presentation Awesome
The Muse: When giving an important presentation, you probably ask around for the best tips for captivating your audience. But maybe what you really need is some bad advice. In fact, what sounds like horrible advice at first could actually be the secret sauce to giving awesome presentations.
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The article was fairly helpful, especially considering we've had to do quite a few presentations for foundations II recently. All the advice given was good, but felt rather typical. No ground-breaking news i this string of advice... HOWEVER, I did appreciate the tip having to do with redundancy. With what, you ask? Redundancy. What? Redundancy. Redundancy. I've never thought about repeating imagery to get a message across. I usually rely on repetition or words, but I totally see how this alternative method could further engrain my powerpoint's greater message into the viewer's psyche. People, especially creative people, have a tendency to think in pictures. This means the pictures on my powerpoint will not only help them learn better, but also remember better! A picture is worth a thousand words, as they say, and now my powerpoint can be too!!!
I dont understand how any of this is bad advice, it seems pretty standard to me. I have learned to keep slides short and try and use photos and demonstrations a while ago and try to stick to those points. An interesting point that I often forget is to identify the audiences' motivations and triggers. This is the first and one of the most forgotten points in that presentation. The presentation really IS for them, not me. This is harder to remember when the presentation is an assignment, I tend to think of it as something that is needed for my grade, but in reality I am teaching people something about a product, process, or piece of history.
This was pretty useful. I especially appreciate the advice about repeating yourself and using multiple pictures- I knew visual aids were helpful and I knew it was helpful to repeat things to get the point across, but I didn't connect the two to use multiple visual aids. I would like some tips on how to use pictures in presentations which are very data-heavy or where you need to communicate a lot of facts and hard information, like in foundations. I feel like it's not exactly useful to put up a picture of Ibsen and then talk about his childhood for 8 minutes- I feel like people would zone out. Sometimes you do need to have text on slides, and I'd be interested in tips on that.
This was certainly all useful advice, especially considering crits are fast approaching. However, I cant help but feel that I have not read like 3 articles with the same info before. The one thing I did take away from this article was the portion about repeating yourself. I never really considered that to be something I should do in my presentations, but I suppose its something that could help get your point across. I would be really careful with this though because you don't want your audience to feel like your always talking about the same thing.
Over all i thought this was good advice for giving a presentation. I dont understand the introduction though. First, none of this advice is really surprising to me and none of this really seems like bad advice either... ive actually heard several of the points that they were making before. Moving past this though, the one point that i particularly liked was their explanation of how to get your point across. It was very much like how to write an essay but with visual evidence incorporated also. I think its good advice to show your evidence for your point then return back to restating the point, even in a presentation vs. an essay.
This is actually some really good advice for presentations. I think the author called it bad advice to make us pay attention and think "What do they mean bad advice?" & "Wait, how is this bad advice?" and similar thoughts. In doing so, his presentation, full of redundancy, and pictures along with text help drive his point home about what to include in presentations and why. And for once, I don't think the general statistics were pulled out of nowhere, even if 90% of all statistics are probably made up.
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