Creación de un folleto

Si es posible, crea un folleto para tu presentación. Me refiero a un bien pensado para complementar tu charla y no sola una copia impresa de las diapositivas exactamente.

En una época en escenario de crisis, (y casi siempre están en una situación de escasez de tiempo, ¿no?) puedes considerar entregando tus notas de vista, asumir que tiene notas allí. Eso debería ser una buena cosa, ¿sí?

Quizás. Tal vez no.

Ten cuidado al dar este folleto, puedes perder la atención de tu audiencia. Van a empezar a leerlo. Al comenzar la lectura, que acaban dejado de escuchar a todo lo que digas. Documentos necesidad de ser conciso, sin embargo, tienen más información que lo que está en la diapositiva. Muchas veces es mejor tener lo que Edward Tufte se refiere como un “supergraphic.” Algo con tantos datos que no se puede mostrar en una diapositiva de la presentación estándar. O si se puede, no debe.

Un supergraphic permitirá a los miembros del público a centrarse en el área específica de interés para ellos. Ejemplos de usos Tufte son los mapas de los incidentes de cáncer en los EE.UU. Mi atención se puede extraer de inmediato a mi ciudad natal, mientras que el tuyo se puede extraer de inmediato a otra zona.

 

The Projector…

How many times have you attended or given a presentation only to have something go wrong with the projector either when setting up or in the middle of a presentation?

What affect did it have on your audience? Did you apologize and wait and call IT and… what happened to your message? Did your story stop?

The take away? Know your story so you don’t skip a beat if something happens mid-presentation. If you have the chance to setup early, take it and make sure everything works prior to beginning your presentation. This way, you increase the chances of your story being uninterrupted and your message getting to your audience.

Photo from pedrosimoes7

 

Using notes in PowerPoint

In a workshop last week, I was discussing use of the notes section in PowerPoint. Once you have your outline of your talk, type in what you’d want to say in the notes section. We were doing an exercise with sticky notes and walking through the steps to move from sticky notes to create slides. Rather than type on the slide, start in the notes. This way, all those bullet points you would have put on the slide go in the notes and your slide is saved from the bullet points. So is your audience.

One participant of the workshop commented that by forcing oneself to START in the notes section, it left the opportunity to think about how to visualize the point up on the slide.

Try it! Did it work for you?

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Creating a Handout

If you can, create a handout for your presentation.  This is a well thought out compliment to your talk and not simply a printout of your slides exactly as you intended to give them.

In a time-crunch scenario (and you almost always are in a time crunch scenario, aren’t you?), you may consider handing out your notes view,  assuming you have notes there. That should be a good thing, right?

Maybe. Maybe not.

Be careful when giving such a handout, you can lose your audience’s attention. They’ll start reading. When they start reading, they’ve just stopped listening to anything you say. Handouts need to be concise, yet have more information than what is on the slide. Often times it is best to have what Edward Tufte refers to as a “supergraphic.” Something with so much data that it cannot be displayed on a standard presentation slide. Or if it can, it shouldn’t.

A supergraphic will allow the audience members to focus in on specific area of interest to them. Examples Tufte uses are maps of cancer incidents across the USA. My attention may be drawn immediately to my hometown, while yours may be drawn somewhere else.

 

Two things

Seth Godin has a great post about Two Elements of a Great Presenter.

He talks about love to the audience, which is great for connecting with them. I’d like to add that love of the subject matter your speaking about is equally as important. How often have you heard someone present something to you when their heart is not in it? Is it obvious? What was your reaction? Did you remember what they said? If you cannot remember much from that presentation, it might tell you something about a presenter’s enthusiasm for their topic.

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Cliché: piensa fuera de la caja

Eso es. Fuera de la caja. ¿Qué cuadro, dices? Abre PowerPoint y ¿qué ves? Así es, ve esto:

Una caja, dos cajas de hecho, para pedirte que añadir un título y texto para cada diapositiva. Empiezas a escribir de distancia, ¿no?

¡NO! No lo hagas.

Recuerda que el cartel: No hay títulos ni bulletpoints. ¿Cómo puedes obtener tu punto a través fuera de esas cajas? Imágenes? Gráficos? Algo?

Cualquier cosa menos bulletpoints.

 

That’s right. Outside the box. What box, you say? Open up PowerPoint and what do you see? That’s right, you see this:

A box, two boxes actually, telling you to add a title and text to each slide. You start typing away, right?

STOP! Don’t do it.

Remember the billboard: There are no titles nor bulletpoints. How can you get your point across outside those boxes? Images? Graphics? Something?

Anything but bulletpoints.