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Ideas and Pacing
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Ideas and Pacing
Avoiding Information Overload
Presentations deliver ideas to the audience. These ideas can be delivered:
- Too fast
- Too slow
- Just right
wondrlust.com/knowledge/the-goldilocks-rule/
Works Cited
- eslide.com/information-overload-how-to-fight-the-urge-to-say-too-much/
- exec-comms.com/blog/2009/01/26/presenting-complex-information-10-simple-rules-every-subject-expert-needs-to-know/magneticspeaking.com/8-ways-to-transform-boring-topic-into-engaging-presentation/
- speakingaboutpresenting.com/content/information-overload/
- speakingaboutpresenting.com/content/presentation-shouldnt-flow/
Chunking
- Include short pauses in speech.
- Put them between ideas and parts of sentences.
- Allows audiences to follow more easily.
Break Up Flow
Find a Good Angle
Burdensome Details
Ideas Must Flow
- How does this affect me?
- Find something interesting your topic affects?
- Show how a general trend affects your topic.
www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/582696/The-Goonies-Chunk-Jeff-Cohen-unrecognisable-30th-anniversary
- Create illusion of conversation.
- Use jokes and analogies.
- Be frivolous.
- Audiences like novelty.
- They dislike confusion.
- Too few ideas = Not enough novelty.
- Too many ideas = confusion.
- Avoid "scarcity mindset."
- Have fewer points.
- "Lies to children."
sfgospel.typepad.com/sf_gospel/2008/09/religion-in-the-golden-age-astounding-july-1939.html
The Problem of Knowledge
- You have intimate knowledge of your organization.
- Some of that information feels so obvious that it doesn't need saying. But it isn't.
- Too little detail = confusing.
- Too much = overwhelming.
youtube.com/watch?v=xRGJpeWLMP0
Devise an argument
- Figure out what you are trying to convince your audience of.
- Focus on one big idea.
- Write an "abstract."
speakingaboutpresenting.com/content/presentation-shouldnt-flow/
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