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How to deliver an extremely boring presentation
The document contains tips for giving presentations, including avoiding excessive text on slides, using images and visuals to engage audiences, employing good design practices like readable fonts and color schemes, and focusing on conveying the core message in an entertaining way rather than reciting all details. It emphasizes grabbing audience attention through stories, jokes, or questions instead of expecting them to be fully prepared experts. The goal is to stimulate and provoke audiences rather than just convey information.
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- 9. How to killthem? Too much text. Reading from the screen . Less images. Design mistakes. Lack of structure (story). Glasgow 2009 Sameh Shehata
- 10. How to killthem? Too much text. Reading from the screen . Less images. Design mistakes. Lack of structure (story). Glasgow 2009 Sameh Shehata
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- 15. Try to avoid:Excessive Bullet Points in your presentations and not forgetting those annoying sound effects and fly-in entrance effects Glasgow 2009 Sameh Shehata Classic Mistakes
- 16. YOU DON’T NEED MORE THAN ONE! (ok…maybe two) Glasgow 2009 Sameh Shehata
- 17. Rule of six 6 lines per slides . 6 words per line . 6 seconds to understand Slide !. 6 Glasgow 2009 Sameh Shehata
- 18. Points you shouldhave per slide One !! Glasgow 2009 Sameh Shehata
- 19. PEOPLE WILL REMEMBERTHIS! Glasgow 2009 Sameh Shehata
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- 21. So stop doingthis ! Glasgow 2009 Sameh Shehata
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- 23. Which leads tothis : Glasgow 2009 Sameh Shehata
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- 25. Bad Reasonsto give a talk To show everyone how smart you are! To tell them everything you know ! about your topic To give all the technical details! of your work. Glasgow 2009 Sameh Shehata
- 26. Good Reasonsto give a talk To give the audience an outline for your idea To stimulate them to read your paper In short: To engage, excite , and provoke the audience. Glasgow 2009 Sameh Shehata
- 27. How to killthem? Too much text. Reading from the screen . Less images. Design mistakes. Lack of structure (story). Glasgow 2009 Sameh Shehata
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- 29. Why ? Peoplecan read faster than you talk!! Very boring . Monotonous . Lack of spontaneity. Glasgow 2009 Sameh Shehata
- 30. How to killthem? Too much text. Reading from the screen . Less images. Design mistakes. Lack of structure (story). Glasgow 2009 Sameh Shehata
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- 32. Effective PowerPoint Usecontrasting color schemes (design templates) These colors contrast These colors don’t contrast These colors contrast (harder to read?) These colors don’t contrast These colors contrast (harder to read?) Glasgow 2009 Sameh Shehata
- 33. BACKGROUND: Too fancy,too bright, too terrible. Glasgow 2009 Sameh Shehata
- 34. Poor Colour schemes and/ or use of multiple colours in a single slide for your text that make it almost unreadable for your participants. Cheesy Spinning Word Art! Glasgow 2009 Sameh Shehata Classic Mistakes
- 35. Using animations! Glasgow2009 Sameh Shehata Use animation effects very very very very very very very sparingly
- 36. F o nt s i z e Glasgow 2009 Sameh Shehata
- 37. FONT: Too big, too small , too fancy , too much. Glasgow 2009 Sameh Shehata
- 38. Size mattersGlasgow 2009 Sameh Shehata
- 39. How to killthem? Too much text. Reading from the screen . Less images. Design mistakes. Lack of structure (story). Glasgow 2009 Sameh Shehata
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- 41. How many homeless? Between 2.3 and 3.5 million are likely to experience being homeless in a year 1.35 million of them are children 200,000 veterans may be homeless on a given night. 50% African-American, 35% White, 12% Latino, 2% Native American, 1% Asian Glasgow 2009 Sameh Shehata
- 42. How many experiencebeing homeless ? Between 2.3 and 3.5 million people… 1.35 million are children 200,000 are veterans Glasgow 2009 Sameh Shehata
- 43. Communication is thetransfer of emotion” Seth Godin Glasgow 2009 Sameh Shehata
- 44. Not transfer ofinformation Glasgow 2009 Sameh Shehata
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- 48. Images. Glasgow 2009Sameh Shehata
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- 50. Images are stimulating!Glasgow 2009 Sameh Shehata
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- 53. Brain dominnace RtBrain Or Lt. Brain ? Glasgow 2009 Sameh Shehata
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- 55. How to killthem? Too much text. Reading from the screen . Less images. Design mistakes. Lack of structure (story). Glasgow 2009 Sameh Shehata
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- 57. manifestations solution messageproblem manifestations Glasgow 2009 Sameh Shehata
- 58. The Ideal Audience Has read all your previous work. Has at least three degrees specialty . Eager to learn about the latest developments . Is fresh and alert. Glasgow 2009 Sameh Shehata
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- 60. The Actual Audience!! Has never heard of you. Has a rough idea of the work. Has heard about it, but wish it hadn’t Just came back from lunch and is ready for a nap Glasgow 2009 Sameh Shehata
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- 62. Wake Them up!Glasgow 2009 Sameh Shehata
- 63. Grab their attention Story . Quotation. Question . Joke !! Glasgow 2009 Sameh Shehata
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- 65. What they careabout? 55% Body Language 7% Content 38% Voice Glasgow 2009 Sameh Shehata
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- 67. How to impressthem !! Little text . More images . Decide what is you message. Make a story Never read your slides. Glasgow 2009 Sameh Shehata
- 68. Good presentation islike a mini skirt ! Long enough to cover vital parts . Short enough to remain interesting !!. Glasgow 2009 Sameh Shehata
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Editor's Notes
- #16 PowerPoint as a Trainers Tool The top don'ts of PowerPoint's …. Having all the text on screen Means trainer is just simply reading from the slide making this a very dull, presentation and delivery style. Note that participants can read faster than you can talk through all the text on your slide. Cut down the text, more visuals – les text mean you have to more into the delivery and participants will then focus on the trainer more. 2. Spell Checks ‘Using RDD to process the IMS mean that most depts ppl or p’sel do not run spell Cheek’ try to avoid these errrs. Your presentation looks sloppy, poorly put together. Also, try to avoid using jargon. As with you verbal delivery, trainers must use simple conversational English to convey content. 3. Avoid excessive bullet points Just like text, using too many bullet points for a visual medium is dull and ineffective. They tend to be annoying. - If you are using bullet points, try to emphasize the point that your on, before moving to the next one. Keep them well spaced and try to keep it to one line. Trainers have to learn content management skills to do this. 4. Avoid using Cartoon Clipart (stuck in a corned of the slide). - In most cases, it just looks unprofessional and tacky. The positioning of most of these pictures is stuck in a corner not following any real rules of design of the slide and has little resemblance to the point being made. Try to use real pictures as much as possible and be bold with the pictures – PowerPoint is a visual medium. 5. Colour schemes Unless working on a corporate slide, try to watch for use of colour schemes, either as background colours or choice of templates. Most corporate templates are rather dull and use white, so you have to work within the confines of using white space. - try to blend colours of the same hue rather than hard contrasting colours. 6. Complicated Charts - To ensure all the data is there, most often, trainers pack in too much information making a chart – which should be simple to read- very complicated. - reduce charts down to a minimum – keep them very clear. 7. Pointless Animation Try to avoid pointless animation. Flying (typewriter sound effect) bullet points are not good uses of animation. In business and raining the animation should be subtle. Try to use it for transition between slides use it only to reflect motion or process or giving context to a scene 8 Font Type and Size Choose 1 or 2 fonts and stick with them – don’t choose too many fonts and make sure they are readable on an electronic media like PowerPoint. Also the size of the font is important – nothing should really fall below 24 pts. 9. Microsoft themed templates Poor templates and use of visuals means the slides become repetitive and visual boring after a while because of the way we have preconceived the way PowerPoint presentations to be. Imagine if you picked up a magazine and all the pages and layout were the same with lots of text and poor visuals. Default themes and backgrounds are usually ugly, so try not to use them. This media allows you to use some creativity. 10. Poor Visuals Either choosing the wrong picture to convey the message or using low res pictures. Also placement of visuals is poorly put in. - Follow basic rules of design such as the rule of thirds to assist in placement of text and visuals. PowerPoint is a visual media and should be exploited as such.
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