Do you need some Presentation Zen?

By Alex Manchester, Editor, The Internal Comms Hub (Australia), Melcrum

A notice for anyone on this side of the world who's done a bit of public speaking or simply wants to know how to avoid death by PowerPoint.

Garr Reynolds, author of Presentation Zen, is hosting a talk in Sydney on Friday 4th July, courtesy of the StepTwo Designs team.

In a 2-hour slot, Garr will:

Challenge the conventional wisdom behind PowerPoint and Keynote slides, particularly targeting [the aforementioned] "Death-by-Powerpoint" and "sliduments" that are so prevalent in today's business environment.

Instead, he will encourage you to think differently and more creatively about the preparation, design, and delivery of your presentations. Garr will dispel popular myths about what is an effective presentation and offer up effective alternatives and approaches for designing and delivering better presentations. All throughout the seminar, the common themes are restraint and clarity in preparation, simplicity in design, and naturalness in delivery.

This will be Garr's only public presentation in Sydney while he's here and he won't be back for a while.

I'll be there and places are filling up fast according to Catherine Grenfell at StepTwo. If you're interested, don't waste a minute in booking and head to their site.