The document discusses effective ways to enhance business presentations by transforming text-based slides into visual diagrams. It emphasizes the importance of visuals for audience engagement and memory retention, suggesting various seating arrangements for improved interaction. The guide outlines the benefits of using diagrams to represent relationships between ideas, making information easier to understand and remember.

1. Making Presentations Visual From Text Slides to Simple Visual DiagramsPresentation-Process.com

2. Hi,We are Ram & ArteFrom Presentation-processThe people trying to put a clear process to create better business presentations

3. This presentation explores how slides in business presentations can be made more effective

4. Slides are useful for many reasons…Add insightsRepresent ideas powerfullyProvide Visual ReliefSlidesEngage multiple sensesAid memoryReinforce talk…If they are made effectively

5. What is the best way to represent information on slides?A practical example…

6. The usual text-based slide looks like this…

7. Guidelines to seat audience in a presentationTheater Style: If your audience is large and you cannot interact much with them, use this seating arrangement U-shaped style: For audience of 10-20 this is a great way to interact with the audience Cluster arrangement: More of a training set up where you want audience to interact with each other

8. Does this type of slide help present effectively?PRESENTER: Easy to present without practice or even knowing the subjectADVANTAGEAUDIENCE: Can either listen or read text, but not both at the same time!PROBLEM( Notice how all the advantages are for the presenter)

9. A better alternative is to use bullet-points effectively…

10. Guidelines to seat audience correctlyTheater Style:large audience Low interaction with presenterU-shaped style: Audience size of 10-20High interaction with presenterCluster arrangement: Training set up Audience interact with each other

11. Is this type of slide more effective?PRESENTER: Provides clues for speech without revealing too much to audience. Easy to make.ADVANTAGEAUDIENCE:Does not engage visually. Becomes monotonous after a whilePROBLEM

12. A more‘image’ focused slide on this same topic looks like…

13. Guidelines to seat audience in a presentationSlide 1:Slide 2:Slide 3:Theater StyleU-ShapedCluster Seating

14. Do these ‘images’ help present effectively?AUDIENCE: It is more visual than any of the previous alternativesPRESENTER: Easy to make ADVANTAGEAUDIENCE: It in a ‘linear’ format where connected information is being presented separately. This makes it difficult to recall.PROBLEM

15. Slide with imageRepresenting the way ideas are represented in these slides…Slide with imageSlide with imageSlide with imageSlide with image

16. But the way audience remember information is:The way these slides present information:Not

17. As humans, we understand and remember information as ‘relationships’ or connectionsGood Visual SlideHow information about animals is stored in your brainImage Source: Wikipedia

18. An effective presentation slide should focus on visuals and the connection between ideasGood Visual SlideHelps audience remember message

19. Relationships or connections can be easily captured with DIAGRAMS

20. For example: If we really look at the RELATIONSHIP between the information we have been trying to present…

21. The basis of our suggestion for audience seating arrangement is: Audience interaction with presenter: High or Low Audience size: Small or Large The relationship between the information can be captured as a MATRIX

22. Guidelines to seat audience in a presentationHighU-SHAPED ARRANGEMENTCLUSTER ARRANGEMENTAudience Interaction with presenterTHEATRE STYLECLASSROOM STYLELowAudience SizeSmallLarge

23. ADVANTAGE 1With a diagram, we found further information that could be added to make the thought completeHighU-SHAPED ARRANGEMENTCLUSTER ARRANGEMENTAudience Interaction with presenterTHEATRE STYLECLASSROOM STYLELowAudience SizeSmallLarge

24. We can draw this diagram on whiteboard/ flipchart. No need for slidesADVANTAGE 2

25. Information is presented as ‘relationships’ or connections, which makes it easy for audience to rememberADVANTAGE 3

26. Once the relationship is clear, the information can always be presented with better design…

27. With a more professional diagram…Audience Interaction : HIGHU-Shaped ArrangementCluster ArrangementClassroom StyleTheater StyleLO WSize : SMALLLARGE

28. Is there a problem with this approach?The presenter needs to take the time to process his information and present it as powerful visual diagramsPROBLEMIt is very easy once the presenter knows the process

29. The change in presenting information visually….TextBulletsImagesDiagram+ Design

30. You can READ MORE about presentingbusiness ideas powerfully by creating visual diagrams here:http://www.presentation-process.com/powerpoint-diagram.htmlCONNECT:@Metamorphtrg