Monday, July 11, 2005
I Love the Smell of PowerPoint in the Morning...
Believe it or not, live PowerPoint presentations can be sensory, full-bodied experiences. Sadly, many presenters focus primarily on the visual elements of PowerPoint, adding a dizzying display of backgrounds, pictures, charts, animations, and bullet points...simply because PowerPoint makes it easy to do so.
While focusing solely on visuals may stroke a presenter’s ego, it does very little to provoke a positive emotional response from the audience. That’s because information arrives in our brains through all five of our senses: taste, touch, sight, smell, and sound.
All five senses provide a portal to the human mind. The more you can awaken and enliven your audience’s senses, the more powerful your PowerPoint presentation can be.
Just how sensual are you willing to be when you give a PowerPoint presentation? What can you do to effectively reach all five of your audience's senses? Find out in this brief, easy-listening PowerPoint podcast - just under six minutes! ¶ 7/11/2005 03:44:00 PM
Believe it or not, live PowerPoint presentations can be sensory, full-bodied experiences. Sadly, many presenters focus primarily on the visual elements of PowerPoint, adding a dizzying display of backgrounds, pictures, charts, animations, and bullet points...simply because PowerPoint makes it easy to do so.
While focusing solely on visuals may stroke a presenter’s ego, it does very little to provoke a positive emotional response from the audience. That’s because information arrives in our brains through all five of our senses: taste, touch, sight, smell, and sound.
All five senses provide a portal to the human mind. The more you can awaken and enliven your audience’s senses, the more powerful your PowerPoint presentation can be.
Just how sensual are you willing to be when you give a PowerPoint presentation? What can you do to effectively reach all five of your audience's senses? Find out in this brief, easy-listening PowerPoint podcast - just under six minutes! ¶ 7/11/2005 03:44:00 PM
