This document provides tips for creating and delivering a remarkable presentation. It discusses organizing the presentation with an agenda using the rule of 3, understanding the audience and their perspective, designing effective slides using principles like contrast and alignment, and following up after the presentation. The steps are to 1) organize the presentation, 2) understand the audience, 3) design slides that follow best practices, and 4) follow up after the presentation.

1. Simple steps to creating and performing something remarkable!
Troy Anderson | Nan Frost | Matt Hancox | Roger Strong

2. ORGANIZE AUDIENCE SLIDES FOLLOW-UP

3. 1. ORGANIZE

4. RULE OF 3 (or 4)
AGENDA
PREPARATION

5. 3
MORE INTRIGUING THAN 2
EASIER TO REMEMBER THAN 22

6. AGENDA
TIME
BREAKS
FLEXIBILITY

7. By failing to prepare,
you are preparing to fail.
- Benjamin Franklin
“

8. 2. AUDIENCE

9. WHAT
DOES YOUR
AUDIENCE
SEE?

10. WHAT DO YOU DO?
HOW ARE YOU
DIFFERENT?
WHY SHOULD I
CARE?
WHAT PROBLEM DO
YOU SOLVE?

11. KEEP
CALM
AND
BE
PRESENT

12. 3. SLIDES

13. TEXT, IMAGES & NUMBERS
C.R.A.P. DESIGN
BULLETS

14. ARE YOU AN
ARTIST?

15. TEXT, IMAGES & NUMBERS

16. no more than
SIX
words
on a slide.
“
“
- Seth Godin

17. • Chicago, a city in the U.S. state of Illinois, is the third most populous city in the United States and the
most populous city in the American Midwest, with approximately 2.7 million residents.
• Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837, near a portage between the Great Lakes and the
Mississippi River watershed.
• In 2012, Chicago hosted 46.2 million international and domestic visitors.
• Among metropolitan areas, Chicago has the fourth-largest gross domestic product (GDP) in the
world, just behind Tokyo, New York City, and Los Angeles, and ranking ahead of London and Paris.
• Chicago is one of the most important Worldwide Centers of Commerce and trade.
• Chicago's notability has found expression in numerous forms of popular culture, including novels,
plays, films, and songs.
• The city has many nicknames, which reflect the impressions and opinions about historical and
contemporary Chicago. The best-known include "Windy City" and "Second City.”
CHICAGO

18. 2,700,000residents

19. CHICAGO
IN
POPULAR
CULTURE

20. DESIGN PRINCIPLES
C.R.A.P.

21. CONTRAST

22. WELCOME TO
THE
WINDY
CITY
WELCOME TO
THE
WINDY
CITY

23. THERE’S NOTHING QUITE LIKE
CHICAGO BASEBALL
THERE’S NOTHING QUITE LIKE
CHICAGO BASEBALL

24. REPETITION

25. COLOR
HEADINGS
GRAPHICAL ELEMENTS
IMAGES
FONT

26. ALIGNMENT

27. NOTHING
SHOULD
BE PLACED
ON THE
PAGE
ARBITRARILY

28. NOTHING
SHOULD
BE PLACED
ON THE
PAGE
ARBITRARILY

29. NOTHING
SHOULD
BE PLACED
ON THE
PAGE
ARBITRARILY

30. NOTHING
SHOULD
BE PLACED
ON THE
PAGE
ARBITRARILY

31. “I miss everything about Chicago,
except January and February.”
- Gary Cole

32. “I miss everything about Chicago,
except January and February.”
- Gary Cole

33. PROXIMITY

34. RIDE THE FERRIS WHEEL WHILE YOU’RE VISITING

35. RIDE THE
FERRIS WHEEL
WHILE YOU’RE VISITING

36. DESIGN PRINCIPLES
C.R.A.P.

37. BULLET POINTS
KITTENS
KILL

38. 4. FOLLOW-UP

39. HOW HELPFUL
IS THIS?