So when an audience sits down ready to listen to your presentation, they are full of curiosity and ready to explore: the messaging at the start is vital.
Brains want to quickly understand the purpose of any talk. It’s important to get to the point of your presentation simply and clearly, and within the first 2 minutes.
We can improve presentation engagement by engaging more of the senses during a presentation. At least, that’s the findings from science according to Brain rules. I thought Brain Rule #9 might be tough to apply to presentations:
Applying presentation science to your slides can make a difference to the outcome of your presentation. In this brain rule by John Medina, we consider the importance of knowing your audience before you present.
Before and after PowerPoint slides improved with some design and neuroscience to help to show what presentation specialists can do with your slides
A good PowerPoint designer can do anything! New design, messaging, overall structure guidance, varying levels of animation – whatever you need!
Here we show a before standard bullet-point heavy slide, and the same slide after design and some neuroscience improvement.