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 an excellent road map for business presentations May 05, 2008
What is the best way to start a presentation? How to end it? How to solicit feedback? A methodical approach to these and many other related questions both saves preparation time and improves delivery. The only remaining problem is: what if the new methodology makes sense to you? Would you go through the pain to change your entire presentation style?
Kelly presents a simple three-stage methodology for building an exciting presentation in a minimal set of slides:
1. Build a story board
2. Select supporting facts
3. Elaborate in a set of seven slides
Internet has changed the way we process information and the way we communicate it. My audience is not interested in more statistics. It is looking for new interpretations and new business ideas. What is the right way to present them? If you do it right, you can help your listeners to come to the right conclusions, if not - you just wasted everybody's time.
So the reader has a choice: keep the old presentation habits or adopt the new methodology. Habit versus success. Comfort versus benefit.
This book teaches how to resolve this dilemma and adopt a winning methodology without suffering through change pains. You just need to follow five simple steps for the first stage (premise, conflict, tension, turning point, and resolution) and four steps for each slide (ask a question, evoke a sentiment, answer the question, and move the presentation forward).
Complete with detailed examples and clear illustrations, this is an excellent road map for business presentations.
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 Why bother... everyone does this already... Mar 12, 2008
The premise of the title of this book was intriguing to me. I bought the book in the hopes that it would focus on simplifying the message to 7 slides. What this book does tell you is how to take a 30 slide presentation and cram it all into 7 slides. The author quotes the legendary Edward Tufte in an effort to offer validity to its premise of not wasting anything on white space. He apparently never read "The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint". Unfortunately Seven Slide Solution ignores the simple fact that for information to be absorbed people actually need to understand it. This book tells you how to create a mediocre document, not a presentation, it tells you how to assault an audience, not engage them. Maybe 20 years of creating presentations isn't enough for me to understand this book. To paraphrase a quote by Ashleigh Brilliant... `this book is a complete success, the audience was a failure'. Apparently I'm a failure.
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