Avoiding Bullet Point Driven PowerPoint, 3 tips from Dan Heath

Author and Presenter Dan Heath has a video out called Making Presentations that Stick that offers 3 easy principles to keep your presentations on track:

• Keep it Simple - cut secondary points, let your main points shine through
• Show Something - not clip art, but communication that supports your story "Bringing Reality into the room"
• Tease before you tell - get the audience curious about your topic, before telling them your story

If you go to the Heath Brothers Website you can sign up to download a 4 page document that further explains their approach to "making presentations that stick". In this document they have 5 tips expanding on the 3 in this video:

1. Stories & Examples are the Building Blocks of a Presentation
2. Don't Preamble, Parachute in (grab attention)
3. Let Your Main Points Hog the Spotlight
4. Tease, don't tell - great presentations are a mystery
5. Bring reality in the room (show don't tell)