1. HOW TO CREATE A
SUCCESSFUL
PRESENTATION

2. What is the most important ingredient
of a successful presentation?

4. The slides?

5. The slides?
The speaker?

6. The slides?
The speaker?
The data?

7. X
The slides?
The speaker?
The data?

8. THE IDEA

9. But not just any idea...

10. The idea must be...

11. unde
rstan
dable

12. memorable

13. and
effective
in changing
thought or behavior

15. understandable

16. understandable
memorable

17. understandable
memorable
effective

18. to be
SUCCESSFUL

19. But how?

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21. How do you simplify your ideas?

22. Simple = core + compact

23. If you can’t explain it simply,
you don’t understand it well enough.
-Albert Einstein

24. Making a presentation is
like making a pizza.

25. There are dozens of toppings,
but you have to be selective.

26. Find the core.

27. The more compact the idea,
the easier it is to share.

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29. How do you get the audience
to pay attention to your ideas
and then maintain their interest?

31. Get attention: SURPRISE

32. Get attention: SURPRISE

33. Get attention: SURPRISE
Hold attention: INTEREST

34. It’s not hard to SURPRISE your audience...

35. But it is hard to MAINTAIN THEIR INTEREST.

36. A boss makes work drudgery,
a leader makes it interesting.
-Russell H. Ewing

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38. How do you help people
understand and remember
your ideas?

39. Avoid abstraction.

40. Abstraction is the luxury of the expert.

42. The Velcro theory of memory

43. The Velcro theory of memory
The more hooks in your idea, the better.

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45. How do you make people believe?

46. External credibility
vs.
Internal credibility

47. Authorities and antiauthorities

48. Convincing details
Accessible statistics
Testable credentials

51. Are you better off now than you were four years ago?
-Ronald Reagan

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53. How do you make people care?

54. If I look at the one,
I will act.
-Mother Teresa

55. The power of association

56. Form an association between
something they don’t yet care about
and
something they do care about.

57. Appeal to self-interest

58. Appeal to identity

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60. How do you get people to act?

61. Stories as simulation
(Tell people how to act)

62. Stories as inspiration
(Give people energy to act)

63. Hills
vs.
Heartbeats

65. Once you have an idea that’s worth presenting...

66. ...you can begin to work on the presentation.

67. But first things first...

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