Visuals to support your story-tellling
TweetThe group of managers, that I mentor, completed their story-telling exercise successfully. Some of the stories blew away my expectations. But looking back, we realized that the visuals that we used in the supporting powerpoint deck were not that good. The group’s next exercise is to narrate a story with a supporting powerpoint that has good visuals. As i was pontificating on this subject, one of the managers brought up the point that heavy usage of visuals causes her to switch off. That point intrigued me – what is the right amount of visuals to use in your presentation ? I turned to the blogosphere for advice and landed on Cliff Atkinson’s blog that deals with presentation techniques. He mentions, in his insightful post titled “Shocked by Complexity“, about a term called “map shock” – coined by Dr. Don Dansereau. Make sure you read Cliff’s excellent interview with Don linked from the above post. Cliff has also posted an interesting article on Story-telling with several good links. He wants to call it Story Making, which I liked a lot as well. Finally, Sibu recommends these books by Edward Tufte, considered to be one of the leading experts on visualization.
1. Visual Explanations
2. Visual Display of Quantitative Information
3. Related amazon recommendation
