Brain Hacking Presentations Skills

Presentation Skills Hack #1 - The Lazy Rule

This first video introduces the first strategy to improving your presentation and communication skills: The Lazy Rule. 

This video focuses solely on the actual content of your Powerpoint or slide deck.  It answers the question: How much information should I put on my slides?

As with all the tools we have to think of this a spectrum.  I am showing extreme examples of presentations here, but you do not have to go this extreme.  You can do a partial Lazy Rule or only apply it to certain slides in your presentation.

Presentation Skills Hack #2 - The Picture Superiority Effect.

How has the brain evolved to process information? 

What do we actually see when someone shows us a PowerPoint presentation? 

These are some of the questions you must be able to answer to improve your communication skills.  Business communication and public speaking is often seen as formal and boring, but this technique will give you a way to make any presentation more impactful without having to learn any technical skills.

Presentation Skills Hack #3 - The Magnification Principl

Sometimes when you are presenting or public speaking you cannot change the slide deck.  You are stuck with a boring PowerPoint presentation.  What can you do then?  How can you make a spreadsheet impactful?

Sometimes improving your communication skills and your public speaking means not so much what you say, but how you can move the attention of your audience.  Remember that a presentation is not something you hear or read...it is something you watch!

This lesson will teach you how to strategically direct your audience's attention to make technical slides impacftul.

Presentation Skills Hack #4 Hit'em with the B

What is the difference between a presentation and a speech?  Usually it is the presence of a slide deck like PowerPoint.  In this lesson we will learn how to move an audience's attention from the presentation to the speaker.

Strong communication skills involve bouncing between what the audience is seeing.  If you spend an entire presentation just staring at slides; this is poor communication skills. Likewise if you ignore the slides completely; this is poor presentations skills. 

In this lesson you will learn how to direct your audience's attention quickly, switching their mind set from presentation to public speaking, with one simple trick.

Presentation Skills Hack #4 Hit'em with the B

Here is a demo of the principle that quickly improves your presentation skills.

What is the difference between a presentation and a speech?  Usually it is the presence of a slide deck like PowerPoint.  In this lesson we will learn how to move an audience's attention from the presentation to the speaker.

Strong communication skills involve bouncing between what the audience is seeing.  If you spend an entire presentation just staring at slides; this is poor communication skills. Likewise if you ignore the slides completely; this is poor presentations skills. 

In this lesson you will learn how to direct your audience's attention quickly, switching their mind set from presentation to public speaking, with one simple trick.

Presentation Skills Hack #5 The Repeating Agenda

How long does information stay in short-term memory?  Whether your presentation is a few minutes or a few hours, strong communication skills means helping your audience to retain key information.  That is where the repeating agenda comes in. 

In public speaking there is a saying you may have heard:

"Tell them what you are about to tell them, tell them, tell them what you just told them."  This is the idea behind this simple presentation tactic. 

Presentation Skills Hack #6 Navigation

This presentation skill can go hand in hand with the repeating agenda.  When you are running a presentation we can add navigation into our slides or PowerPoint deck to help the audience really understand the entire presentation. 

When you are speaking about something specific we can use navigation as a visual reminder to our audience of the presentation as a whole.

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