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If we had an accurate picture of the findings of clinical psychologists and cognitive learning specialist, we would all put much more effort into the visual aids we use in our presentations.
Albert Mehrabian showed us that 93% of all communication is nonverbal. His research is well documented, but seldom attended to.
The 3M Corporation insists that we process visuals 60,000 times faster than text.
This information is huge. Yet we continue to put 50-slide PowerPoint shows together (that are essentially text) every day.
If you’ve been following this blog at all, you know that I use PowerPoint all of the time. I use it for quotation slideshows, entertainment slideshows and as a model building tool. For these tasks, it can’t be beat! I love it!
(And there are other things that PPT does well.)
But don’t expect people to learn much from your fifty-slide dream-makers.
This is why I spend lots of time building process models and method maps. Or, as I prefer to call them, Theme Models.
In a few weeks I am going to make available to you the complete home study course, How to Draw Your Message for Fun and Huge Profit.
It is based on the actual visual aids used by the very best speakers and presenters in the world. (Up front experts like Chris Anderson, Jim Collins, Seth Godin, Guy Kawasaki, Robert Kiyosaki and Patricia Seybold, to name only a few.)
Plus, the latest research on the design and use of visual aids in public speaking, like the two references listed above. (And there is a lot more convincing research packages out there beyond the two listed here.)
Keep an eye on this blog and begin to tell everyone you know who speaks in public about this upcoming, career-changing, course, How to Draw Your Message for Fun and Huge Profit.
Thank You!
Wayne
Showing posts with label Seth Godin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Seth Godin. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Sunday, May 30, 2010
The Six-Slide PowerPoint Presentation, Wayne Kronz
PowerPoint supporters insist that “it’s only a piece of software, , , it’s the users who are coming up with all the Really Bad PowerPoint.”
I say differently. Right out of the box, implications are made, , , “anyone can do it.” Bluntly, I proclaim, “no software program can make you an instant public speaking success.”
I am 74 years old, , , and I’ve made thousands of up-front pitches. (I made my first one when I was 14.) And I have a dirty little secret I need to share with you, , , “It is not that easy!”
Everything I know about speaking, teaching and presenting, I’ve had to learn the hard way.
Over 200 books, well over 12,000 hours in front of critical audiences and a lifetime dedicated to the study of how visual aids work in public presentation.
And, I work my butt off in preparation and practice for every new presentation I make. I can honestly say that a great majority of my speeches have been well received.
Maybe, , , all except one! And WOW, did it bomb.
It wasn’t the quality of the material.
It wasn’t that I did a lousy job. I had presented all the stuff many times before with great success. I knew what I was doing.
It was because of my visual package, , , I used PowerPoint. My very first PowerPoint. So, I can easily say, “I’ve had my own bad PPT experience.”
As I have studied that presentation, I read far and wide. And I discovered that, like me, everyone was not pleased using PowerPoint.
Cliff Atkinson knows presentations like few in the world today. That’s why he wrote the book, Beyond Bullet Points.” Instinctively, he knew that the “out-of-the-box PPT” suggestions about using a lot of bullet points was a bad idea.
(One of his consulting clients’ presentations won a $253,000,000 settlement with a huge pharmaceutical company.)
Seth Godin is the best-selling business book author in the world today. (Number One!) And he’s a very prolific seminar leader and professional speaker.
And he wrote the book, Really Bad PowerPoint.
Tom Antion earns well over a million dollars a year as a professional public speaker. He has literally taught the public speaking industry how to sell their wares on the Internet.
And he maintains a website called, PowerPointStinks.com.
(Tom has a cute little alternative to using PPT. I’ll share it with you some day on this blog.)
Dan Roam is the hottest speaker in the world today on the topic of Presenting. His book, The Back of the Napkin, has opened the presentation world’s eyes to what works and what does not in the realm of using visual aids.
He made a comment in one of seminars that triggered my thinking for this article, , , “after five or six slides, no one pays any attention, , ,” speaking about large, multi-slide PPT slide shows.
The reason this comment rang a bell in my thinking is that for the last few years that’s been my exact observation. I’ve thought many times, “Five slides and they're loosing ’em.”
And if most audiences are “good” for five or six slides, why not build PPT presentations with only six slides. Result; I’ve developed the Six-Slide PowerPoint Presentation concept.
I am including two “six-slide” presentations for you on this blog. I hope you learn from them and can put the idea to work in your presenting.
Wayne
I say differently. Right out of the box, implications are made, , , “anyone can do it.” Bluntly, I proclaim, “no software program can make you an instant public speaking success.”
I am 74 years old, , , and I’ve made thousands of up-front pitches. (I made my first one when I was 14.) And I have a dirty little secret I need to share with you, , , “It is not that easy!”
Everything I know about speaking, teaching and presenting, I’ve had to learn the hard way.
Over 200 books, well over 12,000 hours in front of critical audiences and a lifetime dedicated to the study of how visual aids work in public presentation.
And, I work my butt off in preparation and practice for every new presentation I make. I can honestly say that a great majority of my speeches have been well received.
Maybe, , , all except one! And WOW, did it bomb.
It wasn’t the quality of the material.
It wasn’t that I did a lousy job. I had presented all the stuff many times before with great success. I knew what I was doing.
It was because of my visual package, , , I used PowerPoint. My very first PowerPoint. So, I can easily say, “I’ve had my own bad PPT experience.”
As I have studied that presentation, I read far and wide. And I discovered that, like me, everyone was not pleased using PowerPoint.
Cliff Atkinson knows presentations like few in the world today. That’s why he wrote the book, Beyond Bullet Points.” Instinctively, he knew that the “out-of-the-box PPT” suggestions about using a lot of bullet points was a bad idea.
(One of his consulting clients’ presentations won a $253,000,000 settlement with a huge pharmaceutical company.)
Seth Godin is the best-selling business book author in the world today. (Number One!) And he’s a very prolific seminar leader and professional speaker.
And he wrote the book, Really Bad PowerPoint.
Tom Antion earns well over a million dollars a year as a professional public speaker. He has literally taught the public speaking industry how to sell their wares on the Internet.
And he maintains a website called, PowerPointStinks.com.
(Tom has a cute little alternative to using PPT. I’ll share it with you some day on this blog.)
Dan Roam is the hottest speaker in the world today on the topic of Presenting. His book, The Back of the Napkin, has opened the presentation world’s eyes to what works and what does not in the realm of using visual aids.
He made a comment in one of seminars that triggered my thinking for this article, , , “after five or six slides, no one pays any attention, , ,” speaking about large, multi-slide PPT slide shows.
The reason this comment rang a bell in my thinking is that for the last few years that’s been my exact observation. I’ve thought many times, “Five slides and they're loosing ’em.”
And if most audiences are “good” for five or six slides, why not build PPT presentations with only six slides. Result; I’ve developed the Six-Slide PowerPoint Presentation concept.
I am including two “six-slide” presentations for you on this blog. I hope you learn from them and can put the idea to work in your presenting.
Wayne
Monday, April 26, 2010
How People Think About Gifts, Seth Godin
How People Think About Gifts, Seth Godin
By now everyone knows that I'm a big fan of Seth Godin. And his new book, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?View more presentations or Upload your own.
In it he reveals three ways people think about gifts. Among other things, these three different mindsets effect our relationships, our career plans and our marketing.
I have created a two-by-two matrix that will help you understand a total of four mindsets, three from Mr. Godin and one from me, , , the one I consider to be ideal.
Enjoy,
Wayne
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Linchpin, Seth Godin
Let's talk writing style. After all, this is a blog you are reading. And, let's not talk about my writing style (much). I am not a good writer and I know it. But I aspire to be. And I'll keep on working on it until I leave Ol' Mother Earth.
Of all of the thousands of authors I've read and scanned, there are three that stand out to me as a model for my writing style. They are, , ,
Max DePree, Rick Warren and Seth Godin.
I'll not list their books here, except for the one I'm featuring today. Seth Godins, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? It is the source for my latest quotation slideshow.
"These three? Why do they stand out to you, Wayne?"
Because they know how to deliver the most profound truths with the simplest words, , , they use words everyone uses every day. Little bitty words and great big, huge principles! I love 'em.
And so do most readers, , , for sure, blog readers.
(But, all to often, I screw up and get all wordy and many-syllablish. Forgive me!)
And so here is Seth's latest, , , Linchpin, , , it's profound. When you speak, there are always quotations from this meaty little book you can use.
Included is what I would call the "quote of the year." Every speaker, speaking on any subject, can use it in their very next presentation. It is pertaniant to us all.
"Yesterdays remarkable is today's really good and tomorrow's mediocre." p. 25
Enjoy!
Wayne
Linchpin, Seth Godin
I like to read. That's how I've learned what little I know about the craft of writing. Back in "pre-www days," I used to keep from five to seven books checked out of the library at all times. Now days, behind my blogging time, I like to spend time at the local Barnes and Noble book store.View more presentations or Upload your own.
Of all of the thousands of authors I've read and scanned, there are three that stand out to me as a model for my writing style. They are, , ,
Max DePree, Rick Warren and Seth Godin.
I'll not list their books here, except for the one I'm featuring today. Seth Godins, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
It is the source for my latest quotation slideshow."These three? Why do they stand out to you, Wayne?"
Because they know how to deliver the most profound truths with the simplest words, , , they use words everyone uses every day. Little bitty words and great big, huge principles! I love 'em.
And so do most readers, , , for sure, blog readers.
(But, all to often, I screw up and get all wordy and many-syllablish. Forgive me!)
And so here is Seth's latest, , , Linchpin, , , it's profound. When you speak, there are always quotations from this meaty little book you can use.
Included is what I would call the "quote of the year." Every speaker, speaking on any subject, can use it in their very next presentation. It is pertaniant to us all.
"Yesterdays remarkable is today's really good and tomorrow's mediocre." p. 25
Enjoy!
Wayne
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Boats of the World and Seth Godins' The Dip
Boats of the World; The Dip
The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)View more presentations or Upload your own.
, by Seth Godin is in a class by itself. This tinylittle book explains how to deal with an important subject, Quitting.It is also on my "classic list" because of the way it applies my thinking concerning the use of a Theme Model. No book applies my Theme Model principles better than The Dip.
It is also filled with unique and rich wisdom. So I have generated another Quotation Slideshows frames over morgueFile.com photos of Boats of the World. I hope you enjoy this slideshow and can make good use of some of its quotations. If you do like it, please pass a link to this blog along to your many friends who are Public Speakers.
Wayne
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