This week our blog focuses on what you choose to put on a slide. Making a presentation as effective as possible involves finding the right balance between just enough elements to make a good point, but not too many that you overdo it. Finding this balance will help make your message both clear and persuasive,...Continue Reading
Why is hierarchy important on a slide? To answer this, we need to remind ourselves of why the presentation has been made in the first place. What is its purpose? Maybe it is to inform an audience, so they come away understanding your message and point. Or perhaps you want to persuade or inspire them...Continue Reading
For letter ‘F’ in our A to Z of effective presentations, we’ve gone practical, sharing formatting tips on how to use simple, but effective PowerPoint tools that help you upgrade your slides. Usually when we present them in our storytelling training workshops, we’re met with lots of “oohs” and “ahhs” as people realise just how...Continue Reading
When we say good evidence is essential for an effective business story, we don’t mean you have to saturate your presentation with every statistic you can find. In fact, we’d advise the opposite. Good evidence is ensuring you have the right proof points to support your narrative. It could be a piece of data. Or...Continue Reading
Whether pitching for a project, or providing a quarterly review at a board meeting, we all want our presentations to be memorable. It is often considered a key determinant of success. The problem is, our short term memory only holds 7 (+/- 2) items of information at any one time. So, the likelihood of the...Continue Reading
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