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PresentationCreation

1.Admit you

have a Problem

2.Choose your

Topic and your Purpose

Topic

Scope

“If you don’t know where you’re going, any road

will get you there”

Purpose

InspireConvinceIllustrate

DemonstrateElucidateEducate

ConvinceIllustrate

DemonstrateElucidateEducate

Inspire

3.Create

Brainstorming Spaces

Idea Space

UnconsciousProcessing

Drag the Folder

File Space

4.Choose a Structure

Problem-Solution Structure

Line ‘em up, Shoot ‘em down

Classic Story Arc

Chronological Structure

The Top 10

Rule of 3’s

Constraint

Rehearse

5.Add the Flesh

Emotion,Evidence, Rhetoric & Stories

LogosPathosEthos

6.Work the

Transitions

Opening, Closing, &

Segues

Rehash

Rehearse

7.Visualize the

Visuals

Rehearse

Rehearse

8.Edit to Time

Dress Rehearse

Honing

MoreEmotion

StoryRhetoricClarity

9.Mark the

Stage

3D

10.Create a Handout

“If people have any frackin’ use for my

slides, then I have totally fracked up my slides!”

--disgruntled academicconference lecturer

Assign aResident

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11.Give it for

Real

Debrief

12.Do it Again

and Againand Again…

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