Killer Presentations by Nicholas Oulton founder of m62 visualcommunications & PowerPoint Presentation expert
The art of competence What are you good at? Chess, cooking, squash, sailing, wine appreciation, business, presenting or perhaps selling? One thing is for sure – you are probably not the best at all of them. How good do you need to be to deliver an effective presentation about any of these subjects? Certainly not world class. Competent is the … Continue reading
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
I recently delivered the Killer Presentations course to a group of financial service industry sales professionals in New York City. An important learning in this training is to trim the information in your presentation to include only the most relavent data you want your audience to remember. A few days later, I got the following question from an attendee about … 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
