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Apologia & a Quick Annotation re Presentation Planning
I'm heaving a big sigh here, feeling only slightly more impatient than you folks who are following this series. I can hear your thinking from here - and I'm in Newark!
"When is he going to get to the point? Write about nuts and bolts and stop writing about getting ready?"
Am I right? You are thinking that, aren't you. Well I'm right there with you. I really want to get on with the fun part - how to actually construct the content. (There's a big BUT coming....)
BUT, when I started writing this series, it hit me full force just how critically important the "front-loading thinking" is before a presentation ever starts taking shape. In fact, the more I thought about it the more I concluded that most presentations fail before they are ever committed to slides. They fail because the person presenting hasn't clearly answered the right questions, and then let the answers guide presentation strategy & development.
This little annotation is inspired by Maryann Devine's smart blog, SmArts and Culture. Yesterday's post covered the Global Creative Economy Convergence Summit (ain't that a mouthful?) being convened in Philadelphia over the last several days. She suggests (gasp) that brilliant, creative, intelligent, and famous people have done bad PowerPoint presentations. Now things are really going to hell when you get a bad PowerPoint in a Global Creative Economy Convergence Summit.
"I rest my case. Your witness, Mr. Mason."
All the creative conversations and creative strategy discussions that are coming - well they all grow out of the set of questions and considerations that I've covered so far.
So, if you're impatient - and so am I - go back and make sure that you've covered this section thoroughly. It's the bedrock upon which the foundation will be built.
Posted on June 15, 2006 08:41 AM | Permalink
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