Presentation Skills: A 15-Minute Guide to Using Visual Aids Effectively

by Barry Brophy

We have all experienced ‘Death by PowerPoint’ where presenters fill slide after slide with bullet points and then read them out, word for word. This is not just bad for the audience but it is also bad for the presenter who ends up gawping at his or her own slides to remember what was written there. Why do people do this – again and again – and what should you do instead?

In this 15-minute focused and practical read, we shall examine how the basics of how images work in a presentation and give you simple guidelines on how to construct effective visual aids. It will look

- The three reasons presenters are obsessed with bullet points
- Why they don’t work
- How to best use bullet points better (if you have to)
- How images work on three attention, explanation, memory
- How to get the most from images
- How to construct simple mobile visual arguments

This ebook series uses condensed and curated content from the author’s acclaimed title 'Awful Why We Have Them and How to Put Them Right'; content that has been redeveloped into short, focused, and practical 15-minute reads.

The complete series is comprised
- Presentation A 15-Minute Guide to Understanding Fear
- Presentation A 15-Minute Guide to Using Visual Aids Effectively
- Presentation A 15-Minute Guide to Making it Interesting
- Presentation A 15-Minute Guide to Audience Interaction – the Magic Ingredient
- Presentation A 15-Minute Guide to Time Management

Kindle Edition

Published August 1, 2018