The Anti-PowerPoint for Impact
In a recent posting, I advocated the power of spontaneous presentations using just pencil and paper and skipping the ever present PowerPoint. A recent seminar participant sent me a brilliant illustration of such a presentation and I’d like to pass it along...
Click here to view.. Notice Simon's passion. Notice how engaged you are with the visual as he creates it. Notice how the pad and marker are indeed "visual aids" and not replacements for him. Notice how impressed you are that he knows his content and doesn't use a visual as a script. This is dynamic presenting. Do it on a napkin over lunch with a client. Bring a meeting in someone's office alive with a yellow pad and pen. Jump up at a small group meeting and tell your story on a whiteboard. Or, as Simon did, hold a large audience on stage with a simple flip-chart or magnified screen and a pen.
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