Presentation Zen Master Class
As part of the Webstock Master Class series, Garr will be presenting three workshops in Wellington on July 8,9 and 10. We're delighted to have Garr in New Zealand.
| When | What |
|---|---|
| Wednesday 8 July | Presentation Zen Master class |
| Thursday 9 July | Presentation Zen Master class |
The cost of this workshop is $375 (inc GST). This includes morning tea and copy of Garr's Presenation Zen book. There is also an optional lunch with Garr for $35 at a local cafe.
About Garr
Garr Reynolds, who lives in Osaka, Japan, is a sought-after speaker and consultant worldwide. A writer, designer, and jazz musician, he is currently Associate Professor of Management at Kansai Gaidai University in Osaka, Japan. Garr is the former Manager of Worldwide User Group Relations at Apple Inc., in Silicon Valley and spent most of the ’90s as a corporate trainer for Sumitomo Electric Industries, Inc. in Osaka. Garr is the Director of Design Matters Japan and is the creator of presentationzen.com, one of the Web’s most popular websites on presentation design featuring regular insights on presentations, communication, and creativity. Garr’s book—Presentation Zen: Simple ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery—is an international best-seller available worldwide in 14 languages and ranked #3 on Amazon’s Top-10 Business books of 2008. The book, designed by Garr, was awarded the Certificate of Excellence for design at the 38th Annual Bookbuilders West Awards in California in January, 2009. Garr's second book — Presentation Zen Design — will be released in December 2009.
Who is this seminar for?
Anyone who has to give presentations with the aid of PowerPoint or Keynote or create slide presentations for people who do. Even if you do not currently give presentations with multimedia support, chances are you soon will. Business people, teachers, researchers, and other professionals from both technical and non-technical fields alike will benefit from this seminar. This is not a how-to-use PowerPoint seminar, the lessons here — many of which can be applied to other fields such as web design — are more about how to think and how to see clearly, and in the end, how to design and tell stories with the help of multimedia that are powerfully effective and memorable.
In this 4-hour seminar
Garr will explore current popular presentation approaches and highlight techniques from some of the world’s top business leaders, turning conventional wisdom concerning PowerPoint and presentations on its ear. Garr’s “Presentation Zen” approach challenges the conventional wisdom of making slide presentations in today’s world and encourages you to think differently and more creatively about the preparation, design, and delivery of your presentations. Based on research from the cognitive sciences, combined with principles from the world of the Zen arts, graphic design and visual communications, Garr will dispel popular myths about what is an effective presentation and offer up effective alternatives and approaches for designing and delivering better presentations. All throughout the seminar, the common themes are restraint and clarity in preparation, simplicity in design, and naturalness in delivery.
The content will focus on three main areas: preparation, design, and delivery.
Presentations today
- Why most presentations with PowerPoint or Keynote fail.
- Understanding the causes of "Death-by-PowerPoint"
- Understanding "slideuments" or "docu-points" and why/how to avoid them.
- The Presentation Zen approach: What’s Zen got to do with it?
Preparation
- Going analog: learn why and how to structure the foundation of your presentation off the computer.
- Learn how and why to identify the core and how techniques like brain storming and mind mapping, etc. can help.
- Why restrictions and constraints are great enablers.
- Exploring the role of creativity.
- The role storytelling and learning from the art of film and the documentary.
Design
- Why visuals matter and understanding the difference between design and decoration.
- Simplicity isn't easy, but it's powerful: Exploring the idea of amplification through simplification.
- Applying the Zen aesthetic to presentation design.
- Learn the ten most important presentation design principles and techniques that will set you apart from the crowd.
Delivery
- Learn how the master presenters make it look so "easy."
- How to remain natural and conversational in front of an audience.
- How to remain completely engaged with your audience while making your visuals advance smoothly and harmoniously with your narrative.
- Learn what it means to “present naked” and how to do it.
Do you need to bring a computer?
A computer is not required. However, you are very welcome to bring your own notebook computer. The room will have a wireless internet connection and you may find it useful to have some of your own presentations available during discussion sessions or for checking out websites that Garr and others recommend.
What's the Advanced Presentation Zen workshop?
This is a workshop for those who've attended one of the Presentation Zen workshop's held here last year. You can also attend this workshop if you go to one of the workshops held on the previous two days. Material at the advanced workshop is new and follows on from the other workshops.