{"id":2687,"date":"2015-05-22T15:03:36","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T22:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nnlm.gov\/evaluation\/blog\/?p=2687"},"modified":"2019-09-24T10:10:46","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T17:10:46","slug":"improve-your-presentations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/2015\/05\/22\/improve-your-presentations\/","title":{"rendered":"Improve Your Presentations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2701\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/neo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/05\/Death-by-presentation.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2701\" class=\"wp-image-2701 size-medium\" src=\"\/neo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/05\/Death-by-presentation-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"Death by Presentation by Frits Ahlefeldt-Laurvig\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2701\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Death by Presentation by Frits Ahlefeldt-Laurvig (CC BY-ND 2.0) No changes.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In a recent blog post, evaluator Stephanie Evergreen suggested that people no longer ask for power point slides at the end of a presentation (<a href=\"http:\/\/stephanieevergreen.com\/stop-asking-if-the-slides-are-available\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stop Asking if the Slides are Available<\/a>). \u00a0Her point is that the slides should support the speaker and be fairly useless on their own.\u00a0 If the audience needs a reminder of what was said, the speaker should provide handouts, with main points and resources listed, as well as links to engaging dashboards and infographics.<\/p>\n<p>In her blog post, Stephanie Evergreen has 10 points for improving your presentations. \u00a0You don&#8217;t like it when people read their slides? Her first point is to remove text from slides so the focus of the audience goes back to what the speaker is saying. A complementary point she makes is that the graphics on the slide be emotional to help the audience remember what the speaker is saying.<\/p>\n<p>What makes Evergreen&#8217;s 10 points unique in the world of presentation advice is that many of them are about charts and graphs.\u00a0 For example, her point, &#8220;Choose the right chart so that your results tell the best story,&#8221;\u00a0 ties what some might see as dry charts into the story that your presentation is telling. Another one, &#8220;Keep it easy to interpret your graphs with close data labels and a descriptive subtitle,&#8221; is a suggestion that re-occurs in her blog and book, <em>Presenting Data Effectively: Communicating Your Findings for Maximum Impact<\/em>.\u00a0 For a detailed checklist of how to make a better graph, take a look at her <a href=\"http:\/\/stephanieevergreen.com\/dataviz-checklist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Data Visualization Checklist<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent blog post, evaluator Stephanie Evergreen suggested that people no longer ask for power point slides at the end of a presentation (Stop Asking if the Slides are Available). \u00a0Her point is that the slides should support the speaker and be fairly useless on their own.\u00a0 If the audience needs a reminder of&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/2015\/05\/22\/improve-your-presentations\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2959,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-visualization"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ICUo-Hl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2959"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2687"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6550,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687\/revisions\/6550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}