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natural, authentic humor.
Don’t take your topic too seriously, or yourself.
The key is to be authentic. Don’t try to be someone you’re not.
Eighteen minutes is the ideal length of time for a presentation. If you must create one that’s longer, build in soft breaks (stories, videos, demonstrations) every 10 minutes.
get them to really think about what they want to say.
“As more and more stuff you need to remember piles on, it creates greater and greater pressure and pretty soon you’re going to drop it all.”
the longer the task or the more information that is delivered, the greater the cognitive load.
we have a finite amount of willpower each day, which becomes depleted as our brains consume more energy.
“Creativity thrives under intelligent constraints.”
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
The rule of three simply means that people can remember three pieces of information really well; add more items and retention falls off considerably.
attitude, awareness, authenticity.
use three stories as the outline for their presentations.
Step One: Create a Twitter-Friendly Headline
Step Two: Support the Headline with Three Key Messages
Step Three: Reinforce the Three Messages with Stories, Statistics, and Examples Add bullet points
what isn’t there makes what is there even stronger!
Deliver presentations with components that touch more than one of the senses: sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell.
a verbal model and a visual model—the mental connections are not just a little stronger.
use pictures instead of text whenever possible.
brains are wired to process visual information—pictures—very differently than text and sound.
“Use visuals to enhance words, not duplicate.”
statistic (or theme) per slide, followed by photographs or images to give the brain a break from the monotony
no more than 40 words in the first 10 slides.
Kill bullet points on most of your slides.
to paint a picture in a mind’s eye, in some cases even more effective than an actual image.
Be authentic, open, and transparent.
successful people identify their life’s core purpose and relentlessly follow that purpose to become the best representation of themselves
When you deliver a presentation, your goal should not be to “deliver a presentation.” It should be to inspire your audience, to move them, and to encourage them to dream bigger.
