Garr Reynolds workshop
As part of the Webstock Autumn series, Garr will be presenting two workshops in Wellington. We're delighted to have Garr in New Zealand. You can book here and also see why you need to attend this workshop.
When and where
| Date | Venue |
|---|---|
| Monday 30 June | Wellington - Civic suite, Wellington Town Hall |
| Tuesday 1 July | Wellington - Civic suite, Wellington Town Hall |
Cost
The cost for the event is $750 (GST inc) and this includes morning, afternoon tea and lunch. It also includes a copy of Garr's book, Presentation Zen.
About Garr
Garr Reynolds is a sought-after speaker and consultant worldwide. A writer, designer, and musician, he is currently Associate Professor of Management at Kansai Gaidai University in 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, the Web’s most popular website on presentation design which features regular insights on presentations, communication, and creativity.
Garr’s new book - Presentation Zen: Simple ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery - is an international best-seller and is currently being translated into seven languages. Every attendee will receive a copy of the book signed by the author. Presentation Zen has been featured in Businessweek and has been praise by both the business and design communities. New York Times best-selling author Daniel Pink called Presentation Zen “one of the year’s hottest and most valuable business books.” The world’ s number-one selling Photoshop author, Scott Kelby said “The book is absolutely brilliant and should be required reading for anyone that has to do a business slide presentation on any level. It’s that good!”
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 six-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. A forth section will be devoted to looking at how and why the typical Powerpoint presentation is out of sync with effective communication and with how people actually learn, and connect. In this section you’ ll also learn how to help others avoid death-by-PowerPoint and how to defend an approach to presenting with multimedia that is not “the typical way.”
Sample content
(Session 1) 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?
(Session 2) 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.
(Session 3) 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.
(4) Delivery
- Learn how the master presenters make it look so "easy."
- How to remain natural and conversational in front of an audience.
- How to be fully in the moment in front of any crowd.
- 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.
Schedule
| 8.30am - 9.00am | Registration |
| 9.00am - 10.30am | First session (Presentations today: Where are we? Where are we going? And why it matters). |
| 10.30am - 11.am | Morning tea |
| 11am - 12.30pm | Second session (Preparation: Identifying the core and seeing the story). |
| 12.30pm - 1.30pm | Lunch |
| 1.30pm - 3.00pm | Third session (Design: Applying design principles to achieve clarity and impact) |
| 3.00pm - 3.30pm | Afternoon tea |
| 3.30pm - 4.30/5pm | Final session (Delivery: Putting it all together to engage, inform, and persuade) |
