Today, our current approach to PowerPoint is: - Overloading our audiences with too much information - Throwing in everything but the kitchen sink - Just doing a data dump - Usually not communicating a good story - Being too generic - one deck fits all - Not succeeding at helping an audience remember key messages - Creating decks that don't get used, or just one or two slides are pulled - Not producing a crisp communication package Where would we like to be is a place where we: - Find a better approach for internal and external presentations - Tell a clear story - Increase our audiences'

Thanks to Garr Reynolds at Presentation Zen for the tip.) Not only does Rosling present data in a completely new and refreshing way (demonstrating that yes - it can be done ), but he also infuses his own personality and subtle sense of humor throughout - and closes his 2007 presentation in a truly memorable way. Rosling uses his data to show the dramatic progress being made in the world in the areas of child mortality, per capita income, and life expectancy, points out that most of us have a skewed world view due to lack of access to this kind of data, and gives a strong

This handout about the Auto Lobby Bill on Fuel Economy was delivered, along with candy, to members of Congress to coincide with Halloween. If you absolutely must use graphs or charts in your presentation, think about how you might do something unique to represent your data. Here are a couple I've shown you recently, which are presentations dominated by data but still compelling to watch. As always, the data and visuals should be secondary, and an enhancement to the presenter and the message. Check out this fact sheet from the Pew Campaign for Fuel Efficiency . (Thanks

But when you're making your own PowerPoint, suddenly you realize that you must have every possible concept and data point on each slide. Then, you spend so much time preparing the data and charts for the slideshow, you don't have time to practice the presentation, so you end up reading it off the screen. Following up on this post , I've just been reading the results of Dave Paradi's Annoying PowerPoint Survey . I'm not at all surprised by the results.

We've been guilty of repeating the myth that people fear public speaking more than anything else, but checked to get the data -- and in fact, snakes are feared more than public speaking, by 56 percent of those surveyed compared to 40 percent who fear public speaking, according to a 2001 Gallup poll. (The The snakes have been winning this contest since 1998, according to Gallup.) In fact, fear of public speaking decreased from 45 percent in 1998 to 40 percent in the more recent poll.

If the guru thinks that all the data and text are critical, he can put it into a workbook for the audience to take home (oh wait, they already did that, except it's a notebook that contains the whole slideshow. I was watching a video the other day, a video of a live presentation given by some well-known marketing gurus. The video was all about how to make a bazillion dollars by following the gurus' tips.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson's book, Eloquence in an Electronic Age , takes a long look at Ronald Reagan's "self-disclosive, narrative, personal, "womanly" style," and notes: The broadcast age has rendered the combative, data-driven, impersonal "male" style obsolete . ...can be found in an upturned palm , we learned earlier this year in John Tierney's charming report in the New York Times . Emory University researchers studied chimpanzees and bonobos, which use the palm-up gesture consciously to ask for food and "more abstract forms of help, creating a new kind of signal that some researchers

Loosely speaking, the left handles data, facts, and analysis. Compelling imagery can help you make an emotional and persuasive case: but intelligent people will also require data and analysis for their decision making process. 2007? This is Your Brain on PowerPoint.  Our brains have 2 lobes. The right handles

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