Flip Charts
Flip charts are most useful in highly interactive meetings, such as “ideation” sessions where things are moving fast, creativity is flowing, and ideas are popping up one after another—because they capture ideas before they vanish.
But if you choose to use flip charts as conventional visual aids, with graphs, schematics, tables, data, and pictures, kind of like a low-tech PowerPoint presentation, then treat them as you would a PowerPoint, with the same guidelines you read in Chapter 16. In other words, forget word slides and show information only after you have explained what the audience is about to see.
To control the audience’s “eye,” you would have to leave every other page blank. In this way, the conversation comes right back ...
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