{"id":7701,"date":"2020-12-15T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eparrs.com\/blog\/?p=7701"},"modified":"2024-07-09T22:46:18","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T02:46:18","slug":"structure-your-killer-slide-presentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eparrs.com\/blog\/structure-your-killer-slide-presentation\/","title":{"rendered":"Structure Your Killer Slide Presentation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When providing your presentation, your message needs to be understood with EACH slide, in 3 seconds or less, else your listeners will stop paying attention. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Some presentations that I have seen are slides heavy with text because the person conducting the presentation is afraid that they will forget what they are wanting to say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus, when reading your slides word for work, you simply put your listeners to sleep out of boredom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your audience can read your slide faster than you can read the wording, so there really isn\u2019t a reason for your being there if that is all you are doing. People already know how to read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are slides you will be creating, not documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For slides, you can use pictures. They really can be worth a thousand words, and pictures will always beat text.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhy?\u201d, you ask.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Searches related to 90% of information transmitted to the brain is visual, and visuals are processed in the brain at 60,000 times the speed of text. ~ Google<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

And, for those doubting-Thomas\u2019 reading this, I did do a search for a study for visuals over text for learning<\/a> and DID find one to share with you here. As humans we remember images far better than we do text.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You\u2019re right, just because something is in print, especially on Google, does NOT make it true… which is why I presented you with the case study linked above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, if you would prefer to do a deeper study into this topic, I present you with Dr. John Medina\u2019s Brain Rules<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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WE REMEMBER<\/strong>
10% of what we read
20% of what we hear
30% of what we see
50% of what we see AND hear
70% of what we discuss with others
80% of what we personally experience
95% of what we teach others.
~ Edgar Dale<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

For an example of this<\/strong>, if you were to compare the size of Australia to the United States and you write down the square miles (or square kilometres for those of you who prefer metric), which do you think would be quicker to understand and remember… a visual like the one below<\/strong>… or text detailing the sizes of each of these countries?<\/p>\n\n\n

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Creating a Consistent Theme<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Be sure to select a theme for your presentation that will set the mood and tone that you want your audience to experience, and be sure to stick with your theme consistently throughout your presentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inconsistency makes a presentation far too difficult to understand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Examples of constancy are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n