Killer Presentations by Nicholas Oulton founder of m62 visualcommunications & PowerPoint Presentation expert
About every other course somebody asks me about how Visual Cognitive Dissonance (VCD) sits with Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP). My tongue-in-cheek response is that VCD is based on science and, as far as I am aware, is consistent with all the major religions, and so almost certainly consistent with the minor ones such as NLP. Why do I compare NLP to … Continue reading
Should you produce handouts for your presentation? The process for my company’s newsletter allows me to edit and vet before it is published. It’s a process that never quite works and this month pretty much failed, hence I get the uncomfortable job of publicly disagreeing with the team. Their position in the article “PowerPoint Handouts” (in my opinion) is fundamentally … Continue reading
If a picture paints a thousand words, why do we use thousands of words and one picture (pie chart!) in our presentations? When, how and why should we use icons in a visual presentation? Iconography is often associated with art or religion (Cross, Star of David, Ichthus (little fish shape used by Christians during times of religious persecution now seen … Continue reading
People speak at around 125 words a minute but think considerably faster. When listening to a presenter, hearing the words takes a relatively small toll of the mind of an audience member, leaving them plenty of cognitive capacity to think about other stuff. Depending on what they do or are thinking about will determine how much of the information they will … Continue reading
