Do you wonder if you should have handouts for your presentation?
Then you have come to the right place.
- We are going to take you on a journey
- Far, far away from bullet points and text-crammed slides
Previously, we explored Slides and Presentations: The Perfect Marriage.
Today, we’ll take a closer look at handouts.
Handouts or No Handouts
Not every presentation needs a handout.
And for darn sure, not every presentation needs slide after slide of text. There are other ways to demonstrate your genius.
The Slideshare version of Slides and Presentations: The Perfect Marriage was wildly popular – at least by my modest standard – over 2,200 views in one day.
Do we all yearn for a separation of slides and too much detail?
So when do you use a handout? And what should it look like?
Start With Your Presentation
- Science tells us we remember pictures better than we do text
- They call the phenomenon the picture superiority effect
And if you believe the stories of technology rewiring our brains, you may need to adjust the way you present ideas.
Create a Storyboard
Telling a story is hot advice for almost any form of communication.
There’s a reason that advice is so popular – it works.
One of my favorite tools is one I received when I purchased Cliff Atkinson’s book, Beyond Bullet Points. You can download Cliff’s template at the site’s Resources page.
The storyboard template works for me when outlining my story. I find it also helps trim the fat.
As the template promotes ~
“1-2-3, show me only what I need to see”
The more stuffing you do, the less your audience receives.
Do you need a handout?
As a supplement to the Slides and Presentations: The Perfect Marriage presentation, I created the following Slideshare focused on handouts.
The presentation answers the question – Handout or no handout?
In a future post, we’ll review suggestions for a professional handout.
What do you think? Do you regularly use handouts? Have they been effective?
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