Presentations: Slide Guidelines & Makeovers

Wow, what a great workshop at Virginia Tech's Faculty Development Institute yesterday! Twenty of us, including students, faculty, and staff from 17 different departments came together to learn and share about designing user-friendly electronic slides. After intros, we reviewed the Durso et al (2011) evidence-based PowerPoint slide guidelines and then broke out into groups to start makeovers for 3 different sets of slides, provided ahead of time by willing participants. Part 2 (open to anyone) will be 11/8/12 at 10 am!

HFES User-Friendly Presentations

CANCELLED Sign up now for my workshop, User-Friendly Presentations: Pitches, Guidelines, Makeovers & Tools, on Monday, 10/22/12 as part of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society's 56th Annual Meeting. CANCELLED

• Want to design a presentation that is both easy to deliver and easy for your audience to follow and understand?
• Did you know oral communication skills was ranked #1 and presentation skills was listed as another important work-related skill in a HFES member educational needs survey?

Join Dr. Erik CB Olsen starting at 1:30 pm for HFES Workshop #7 - a new, interactive presentations workshop.

·         After individual “personal pitches” participants will then learn a method of organizing their ideas into a presentation – before turning on the computer.

·         Then we’ll review Durso’s 5 PowerPoint slide guidelines on font, color, layout, charts, and comprehension.

·         We will then collectively learn to conduct slide makeovers.

The workshop will benefit a mixed audience including students and people new to human factors as well as experienced presenters who want to fine-tune their presentation skills.

•  No experience making presentations is required but knowing the basics of PowerPoint or Keynote is useful.
• Participants are encouraged to submit electronic slides prior to the workshop.

See the full HFES description online, visit the registration page or go to https://www.hfes.org/.

CANCELLED Register today to reserve your spot! CANCELLED

23 second slide video: Introduce 1-element-at-a-time

Erik showing the 1-element-at-a-time concept

I just made a 23-second video (from my longer videos) for my User-Friendly Presentations playlist - this video explains and demonstrates the power of splitting up a slide into elements and building the slide up by showing and explaining each element one at a time. You can still use the full slide as an overview, but then introduce each portion of that slide one part at a time to make it more understandable to your audience, who is not familiar with your data, slides, or presentation.

3 quick slide makeovers in a minute

Want to see a slide makeover in action? How about 3 of them in about a minute? Check out the video below I made recently.

User-Friendly Presentations: Pitches, Guidelines, Makeovers & Tools

I just received notice that my 1/2-day Workshop "User-Friendly Presentations: Pitches, Guidelines, Makeovers & Tools", was ACCEPTED for the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society's 56th Annual Meeting, tentatively scheduled for Monday, October 22 in Boston, MA! Registration details to follow. UPDATE: should know by 6/19/12!

I also have a 2-part June workshop called Perfect Presentations in Blacksburg, VA for June 13 & 20, which will be similar but spread over 2 separate sessions.

Slide makeover in under 30 seconds

This quick slide makeover example was recorded to show a sample of how I help people makeover their slides.

present like Steve Jobs

5 points to speak like Steve Jobs
http://m.entrepreneur.com/blog/223513
Erik Olsen, via my mobile.