Timo Sorri: Sharpen your point on your slides. 2 easy principles to achieve that

Timo Sorri is a presentation designer who helps people turn their ideas into compelling and understandable visual stories. Based in Helsinki, he is founder and owner of Havain, a company specialized in designing business presentations and also offers training in the subject. Author of the Presentaatioiden Pelikirja -blog (the Playbook of Presentations). Member of Toastmasters International since 2009. His stage fright moment His “icebreaker” at Toastmasters. In spite of having rehearsed his lines for 5 hours, when the moment approached he was extremely nervous, “about to collapse”. But after few seconds of being on the stage, everything went calmer and he successfully delivered the speech. Two easy principles to sharpen your slides The two “S”: (1) So what? and (2) Signal to Noise ratio. 1. So what? -> Be clear what you want to say in the slides. 2. Signal to Noise ratio -> Minimize the amount of things that you need on your slide in order to communicate your point. When to use slides Use slides if the audience is very big. Avoid using slides in company internal meetings, where people should instead interact more. Useful resources for designing presentations Creative Commons licensed (i.e. you can use them without charge, just give the attribution to the source) image sites: * www.flickr.com/commons (search engine for world’s public photography archives powered by Flickr) * www.compfight.com (search engine for Flickr users’ Creative Commons licensed images) * www.photopin.com (same as above) * labs.tineye.com/multicolr/ (Search Flickr Creative Commons by color) *