Pointless and boring presentations
Art Lebedev is a leading design studio based in Russia with many other office worldwide. Artemy Lebedev, he is the founder and the head of the studio write a lot good articles on various topics.
One of the latest article he wrote is about pointless presentations. Note that the article is in Russian, however they will publish in English later. So to cut short, here’s the list of what I understood:
- Be prepared, know your topic - don’t just memorize
- If you are presenting some text on your slide show, make it shorter. Write a few words then talk the rest in your words. Don’t let your audience read your long text.
- If you let your audience read the text, don’t repeat and read it again yourself.
- Don’t mumble/ramble and be confident.
- 99% percent of all presentations are boring, decisions are not made after the presentations.
What’s your opinion about the article and in presenting in general? Please leave in the comments.
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true.. i have read it somewhere, hey don’t forget include some genuine jokes.
Here is another good rule of thumb from Guy Kawasaki, Apple Computers: 10/20/30, which means no more than 10 slides in your presentation, no more than 20 words on each slide, and with 30 font. Our professor made us stick to these requirements :(( and talk for 30 minutes….