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Avoiding presentation disaster - how hard could...

Rowan Manahan
November 10, 2013

Avoiding presentation disaster - how hard could it be?

Why are so many presentations so bad? Simply put, because people don't stop, breathe, and ask themselves a couple of clear and simple questions.

Simple, simple things to think about - I hope you find it useful

Rowan Manahan

November 10, 2013
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  1. These drop-in text boxes are intended to provide a narrative

    voice for this stand-alone presentation.
  2. Because even when you are in a room with 10,

    50, 300, 1000 or more people …
  3. The moment of birth and It is said that you

    are only truly alone at two moments in your life
  4. the moment of death It is said that you are

    only truly alone at two moments in your life
  5. ✴This is my Fabulous Presentation and I love it so

    very very much. ✴It is full of incomprehensible flowcharts, graphs that are too small to see, and decorative lo-res images that don’t really illustrate the point, but serve to fill the little bits of empty space that are left on my screen. ✴But most of all, there are Bullet Points. ✴Lots and lots of lovely, meaty and cuddly Bullet Points. ✴And because they are so fabulous and so cuddly, I am going to spend most of the presentation with my back to you as I lovingly read out my cuddly Bullet Points. My Fabulous Presentation
  6. Good presenters, great presenters, are like this ... They make

    it look effortless and you never see ...
  7. How well we communicate is determined not by how well

    we say things, but by how well we are ... UNDERSTOOD ONLY THE PARANOID SURVIVE