Once again, just before the tekom conference and you are sitting like me preparing your presentation, workshop or lecture? Then lean back for a moment, sharpen your pencil and read 10 facts about presentations:

1.

One of the biggest fears is speaking and presenting in public.

2.

The preparation time increases with the shortness of the presentation
(60 minutes > 1 day, 15 minutes > 3 days, 10 minutes > 3 days, 5 minutes > 15 days).

3.

Steve Jobs was practicing 2 days before a presentation.

4.

With 70% of the preparation time for the design, the presentation will be better.

5.

Listeners should keep the content and not the packaging in mind.

6.

Listeners remember a presentation 10 times more often,
if the facts have background.

7.

95 % of the audience remember a presentation with vivid pictures in any form whatsoever.

8.

If the core of the presentation can be conveyed in 10% of the time,
then you are ready.

9.

The perhaps 30 first seconds of a presentation decide on the success.

10.

The attention of the listeners is constantly decreasing from the beginning.