Many companies during their annual meetings require their speakers to follow presentation guidelines supposed to be submitted in advance, that will be both displayed and printed as handouts. These presentations are supposed to serve both as projected visuals and as stand-alone document… do actually nothing properly! How would it be possible to do efficient presentations and efficient handouts ?
14. Speakers tend to put every word
they are going to say on their
PowerPoint slides. Although this
eliminates the need to memorize
their talk, ultimately this makes
their slides crowded, wordy, and
boring. They lose their audience's
attention before they even reach
the bottom of their first slide.
their presentations
boring
making
16. Orientation :
Font size :
Text : as as possible
Max nb. of words / slide :
Text structure : bullet points
Visual : based on
Software : , Keynotes
Same !Can’t be the
48. Acknowledgments
I'd like to thank Garr Reynolds. Thanks for feed-back,
thanks for allowing me to use his word “slideument”.
He did nothing directly and didn’t help… however this
slideshow would not have been possible before 2005,
before discovering Garr Reynolds’s website and
publications.
It’s a long journey to get the best of Garr Reynolds’s
provocative mix of illumination inspiration, education,
and guidance. It may change much more than
presentations : it may change the speaker himself, it
changed myself. Thanks for this, Garr.
Jean-François MESSIER
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49. After 15 years in B2B sales, Jean-François joined Mercuri
International in 1996. Mercuri is the leading training and
consultancy firm in sales efficiency.
• During 20 years, Jean-François has trained more than 7000 sales
people and managers in sales and sales management.
• As worldwide new technologies manager, he has traveled
around 25 countries for 8 years, to implement what technology
can bring in terms of commercial development.
• He worked with more than 500 companies of all sizes in
developing their results: the biggest are part of the CAC 40 ( 40
most significant values among the 100 highest market caps on
the Euronext Paris), the smallest have less than 20 employees.
Today President of Cloud Business School, training and consultancy
firm, he shares his methods and experience.
10 000
to conferences
attendees
7 000
Trainees: reps, sales
managers & CEO
500
Companies
trained (*)
120 000
Unique visitors
on Blogs / year
100 000Views on
Slideshare
11 000Followers onTwitter
2 500
Followers on
Linkedin
95/100
SSI Linkedin
(Social Sales Index)
22
countries
(*) …in
Jean-François Messier is proud to be
salesman for 30 years. Consultant, speaker,
author and co-author of several training
programs: Effective Sales Presentations, B2B
social selling, Manager 3.0, Sales reps 3.0, as
well as « Executive Sales Director – ESCP
Europe» co-author and facilitator.
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Editor's Notes
FR : On va de même préférer le format portrait 2 colonnes pour rendre la lecture encore plus facile ! EN :
FR : Portrait ou paysage, contrairement aux présentations de vente, les illustrations dans vos propositions écrites ne doivent pas être pleine page : c’est un document à lire, pas un livre d’image pour enfants. Si vous adoptez le mode paysage vous ne céderez pas à la tentation de remplir les espaces vides ! EN :
FR : De sorte à obtenir un document cohérent. EN :