9.6. Visuals
One thought regarding presentations. If you need a support mechanism, such as notes or a slide deck, to remind you what you are going to say, how can you expect your audience to remember it in the future?
Twenty years ago visuals were called visual aids. If someone wheeled out a projector or had put together some computer-based slides (as we used to call them), there was a certain novelty value. It made an impact. That has all changed. How many presentations have you attended where the presenter used a technology medium as a key part of the presentation. Almost all of them?
And that is one of the problems. We have all been subjected to so much ‘death by slides’ that visuals, at least slide visuals, tend to wash over us. The whole ...
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