The document provides tips for creating presentations that are engaging rather than boring or inducing suicide. It advocates filtering presentations through one's own personality to make them more interesting, informal and conversational. The key lesson is that a good presentation tells a simple story from a personal perspective.
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How to do presentations that don't induce suicide
1. HOW TO DO
PRESENTATIONS
THAT DON’T INDUCE
SUICIDE
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2. HOW TO DO
PRESENTATIONS
THAT DON’T INDUCE
SUICIDE ected title
#1 Pi ck an unexp
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3. HOW TO DO
PRESENTATIONS
THAT DON’T INDUCE
SUICIDE ected title
#1 Pi ck an unexp
#2 Use type confidently - don
’t be a pussy
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4. IN SHORT: NO ONE WANTS
THEIR AUDIENCE TO DO THIS
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5. IN SHORT: NO ONE WANTS
THEIR AUDIENCE TO DO THIS
#3 Dramatise the essence of
the presentation
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6. IN SHORT: NO ONE WANTS
THEIR AUDIENCE TO DO THIS
#3 Dramatise the essence of
the presentation
4 Show that your ‘edgy’ title was no accident
#
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8. #5 context: why are we here?
• YOU WANT TO GET BETTER
AT CREATING PRESENTATIONS
• I’M GOING TO HELP YOU
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9. #5 context: why are we here?
• YOU WANT TO GET BETTER
AT CREATING PRESENTATIONS
• I’M GOING TO HELP YOU
• IT WILL TAKE 5 MINUTES
(WHICH IS ABOUT THE SAME
AMOUNT OF TIME MICROSOFT
SPENT DESIGNING POWERPOINT)
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10. #5 context: why are we here?
• YOU WANT TO GET BETTER
AT CREATING PRESENTATIONS
• I’M GOING TO HELP YOU
• IT WILL TAKE 5 MINUTES
(WHICH IS ABOUT THE SAME
AMOUNT OF TIME MICROSOFT
SPENT DESIGNING POWERPOINT)
#6 set exp ectations
#7 show yo u’re ‘fun’
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12. #8 but don’t be too ‘fun’
#8b Seriously. Eye-rolling is up there with suicide.
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13. #8 but don’t be too ‘fun’
#8b Seriously. Eye-rolling is up there with suicide.
#8c I’m not kidding. NO images like this.
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14. #9 Demystify things by turning your entire
presentation into a single, simple lesson...
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15. #9 Demystify things by turning your entire
presentation into a single, simple lesson...
A GOOD PRESENTATION IS A
SIMPLE STORY, TOLD FROM A
PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE
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16. #10 Use a quote if it adds something
“Everyone who is honest is interesting”
~ Stefan Sagmeister
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17. #10 Use a quote if it adds something
“Everyone who is honest is interesting”
~ Stefan Sagmeister
t’s a credible
b It helps if i back story
#10
source with a nice
tory
read the back s
C lick this to person, the
, in ly)
(of course ould do this verbal
w
presenter
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19. #11 Extrapolate your story into easy steps
A GOOD PRESENTATION IS A
SIMPLE STORY, TOLD FROM A
PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE
1. Background - paint the picture (contextualise)
2. Main character - who’s involved, and how?
3. Event - what happened?
4. Lessons - what can we learn from it?
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20. A GOOD PRESENTATION IS A
SIMPLE STORY, TOLD FROM A
PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE
1. Background - paint the picture (contextualise)
2. Main character - who’s involved, and how?
3. Event - what happened?
4. Lessons - what can we learn from it?
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21. BACKGROUND
THE WORLD IS LITTERED WITH
AWFUL PRESENTATIONS
SOME CHARTS THAT I
SMASHED TOGETHER
10 ways to use the words WITHOUT EDITING 6
How to maximise the
Social Media in casual 100 99
103
6 43
chances of slow,
75
conversation! 50
32 32
2134
32
corporate suffering
25 99 2134
0
2007 2008 2009 2010
(you may have seen some of them)
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22. BACKGROUND
THE WORLD IS LITTERED WITH
AWFUL PRESENTATIONS
SOME CHARTS THAT I
SMASHED TOGETHER
10 ways to use the words WITHOUT EDITING 6
How to maximise the
Social Media in casual 100 99
103
6 43
chances of slow,
75
conversation! 50
32 32
2134
32
corporate suffering
25 99 2134
0
2007 2008 2009 2010
#12 If you want to avoid pickin
(youp g on
may have seen some of them) real
peo le, dramatise problems in
stead
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23. A GOOD PRESENTATION IS A
SIMPLE STORY, TOLD FROM A
PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE
1. Background - paint the picture (contextualise)
2. Main character - who’s involved and how?
3. Event - what happened?
4. Lessons - what can we learn from it?
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24. THE GUILTY PARTY IS THE
GENERAL POWERPOINT USER
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25. THE GUILTY PARTY IS THE
GENERAL POWERPOINT USER
image courtesy
nice: link to sources
# 13 P.s. be borrowed
for im ages you
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26. THE GUILTY PARTY IS THE
GENERAL POWERPOINT USER
BUT IT’S NOT THEIR FAULT...
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33. IT NOT MUCH DIFFERENT FROM:
That must be what
‘music’ is supposed
to be like
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34. A GOOD PRESENTATION IS A
SIMPLE STORY, TOLD FROM A
PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE
1. Background - paint the picture (contextualise)
2. Main character - who’s involved, and how?
3. Event - what happened?
4. Lessons - what can we learn from it?
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35. ONE DAY, I ‘NEARLY’ DID THIS:
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36. ONE DAY, I ‘NEARLY’ DID THIS:
#15 Looping back to the open
er
really helps gel things togeth
er
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37. ENOUGH WAS ENOUGH...
ENOUGH 26
19.5
13
ENOUGH ENOUGH
6.5
0
TIME
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38. ENOUGH WAS ENOUGH...
ENOUGH 26
19.5
13
ENOUGH ENOUGH
6.5
0
TIME
#16 Everyone like s an ‘amusing’ chart
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39. ALMOST EVERYONE IS CAPABLE
OF COMMUNICATING WELL...
...IF THEY STOP
LETTING
EXTERNAL
EXPECTATIONS
GET IN THE WAY.
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40. AND INSTEAD BEGIN WITH
WHAT THEY FIND INTERESTING.
#17 If you use a ‘cute kid’ pictu
re,
find one with charm - it’ a fine
line
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41. SO... I DECIDED TO PUT THIS
PRESENTATION TOGETHER
TO TELL PEOPLE
ONE SIMPLE THING:
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42. FILTER THE WORLD THROUGH
YOUR OWN PERSONALITY
1. thing s you see
ity
2. your personal
v iew of the world
3. your unique
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43. FILTER THE WORLD THROUGH
YOUR OWN PERSONALITY
1. thing s you see
ity
2. your personal
#18 A visual metaphor can m
ake
points more palpable and me
mo rable
v iew of the world
3. your unique
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44. A GOOD PRESENTATION IS A
SIMPLE STORY, TOLD FROM A
PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE
1. Background - paint the picture (contextualise)
2. Main character - who’s involved and how?
3. Event - what happened?
4. Lessons - what can we learn from it?
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45. FILTERING THINGS THROUGH
YOUR PERSONALITY...
• Makes presentations more interesting
• Makes you more interesting
• Makes you take more care
• Gives your content a better chance
• Sets an informal, conversational tone
• Makes it more memorable
• Makes people more likely to talk about it
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48. HERE COMES THE RECAP SLIDE
#19 Recap slides prevent peo
ple from having to think
back - and they force you to h
ave a simple point...
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49. RECAP
10 ways to use the
words Social Media in
casual conversation!
1. NO ONE 2. BE CAREFUL 3. SAY IT
WANTS THIS WHAT YOU COPY YOUR WAY
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50. AND SOME LESSONS FOR ME
1. It’s dangerous doing a presentation about how to do
presentations (hope no one thinks i’m a total wanker.)
2. You can’t really explain exactly how to do something
when the point is not to follow a format.
3. Clearly this level of silliness isn’t appropriate in all cases,
but the core point remains: humanise it.
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