Great post over on Lifehacker the other day about The 10/20/30 Rule in public speaking. Definitely worth checking out...
Over the past few months, I've had the opportunity to work with a few speakers as they prepared to share with students during our Sunday morning service. They're asked to give a 25-30 minute talk to high school students that is engaging, relevant, and deeply rooted in God's word. It's been a lot of fun to work with speakers as they develop the big ideas, work out a flow of thought, and think through elements of presentation and design. I think one of the best memory tools for people prepping a presentation is this 10/20/30 concept.
The 10/20/30 Rule is a simple and helpful guideline developed by entrepreneur Guy Kawasaki for speakers to use as they prepare presentations for groups. Here it is in a nutshell:
If you're interested in looking into presentation design a little deeper, here are two great resources to get you started:
And thanks to the U.S. Military, here's one last example of a really bad presentation slide:
Over the past few months, I've had the opportunity to work with a few speakers as they prepared to share with students during our Sunday morning service. They're asked to give a 25-30 minute talk to high school students that is engaging, relevant, and deeply rooted in God's word. It's been a lot of fun to work with speakers as they develop the big ideas, work out a flow of thought, and think through elements of presentation and design. I think one of the best memory tools for people prepping a presentation is this 10/20/30 concept.
The 10/20/30 Rule is a simple and helpful guideline developed by entrepreneur Guy Kawasaki for speakers to use as they prepare presentations for groups. Here it is in a nutshell:
- 10 - People can appreciate only 10 explanatory notes at best, so keep it simple. If your presentations are bloated with slides, you'll either lose your audience in complexity or redundancy.
- 20 - You will capture your audience's full attention for about 20 minutes tops. If you can't say it in 20 minutes, you need to rework it. This 20 minute block is your presentation and explanation, not necessarily your hook, setup, or Q&A.
- 30 - Keep your font at 30 pt. or higher. If you've got to shrink your text below 30 pt. to fit it on your slide, you've got too much text. :)
If you're interested in looking into presentation design a little deeper, here are two great resources to get you started:
- "Death By Powerpoint" by Alexei Kapterev is a great summery of bad PowerPoint and offers some practical steps to simplifying through design.
- Presentation Zen is a great blog dedicated to the design elements used in visual communication. They've risen presentations to the level of art, and you can't help but look at some of their examples and say, "wow!" It's a tremendous resource for information and inspiration.
And thanks to the U.S. Military, here's one last example of a really bad presentation slide:
3 comments:
thanks for the tips and it's a catchy rule. Word!
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