{"id":3626,"date":"2016-04-10T17:27:20","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T16:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/?p=3626"},"modified":"2016-04-10T20:03:26","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T19:03:26","slug":"new-light-through-old-windows-seven-presentation-creativity-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/new-light-through-old-windows-seven-presentation-creativity-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"New light through old windows &#8211; seven presentation creativity ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, I&#8217;m not talking about the Chris Rea album, I&#8217;m talking about a new way to make\u00a0your content &#8216;stick&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3624 size-medium alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_1372-e1460301866102-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1372\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_1372-e1460301866102-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_1372-e1460301866102-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_1372-e1460301866102-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_1372-e1460301866102-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Consider the picture &#8211;\u00a0to give you a sense of scale, that&#8217;s my wife in the bottom right hand corner. What&#8217;s so special about a tree &#8211; even such a cool tree as this one? Well it&#8217;s kinda scary, because I&#8217;d never seen it before, despite walking past it maybe a dozen times.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alnwickgarden.com\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Alnwick Gardens<\/a>. If you&#8217;ve not been, go.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/258299448&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So what tools\u00a0are there to present your information differently? \u00a0Or tools find those ways?<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Try a different medium<\/span><\/strong>. It&#8217;s not necessarily the way you&#8217;d do it in the end, but forcing yourself to try presenting using a different medium can really kick your creativity into overdrive and force you to think differently. It&#8217;s a bit like playing mime games &#8211; when you can&#8217;t speak, your ability to pass on information visually becomes more to the fore.<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Pretend you&#8217;re talking to a different audience<\/span><\/strong>. Instead of your colleagues from work, what if you were presenting to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mothersunion.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mothers Union<\/a>, or the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.midwifery.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Association of Radical Midwives<\/a>? Or what about the <a href=\"http:\/\/worldclown.com\/annual-convention-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\">International Clown Convention<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Give yourself some (unreasonable) rules<\/strong><\/span>. \u00a0For example, if you&#8217;re using <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PechaKucha\" target=\"_blank\">Pecha Kucha<\/a> rules, for example, you only have 20 seconds for each or your 20 slides before the slide automatically moves on.<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Abandon the idea of you leading a presentation altogether<\/span><\/strong>. Instead, why not try something like a facilitated meeting &#8211; you provide the facts in advance and spend the meeting time soliciting ideas from the floor. (Note &#8211; don&#8217;t do this as a cop-out! Doing it well\u00a0takes a lot of time, energy and effort!)<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Give yourself some random props<\/strong><\/span>. Seriously, when I&#8217;ve been stuck in the past, I&#8217;ve even tried to work in a stuffed cow to the presentation. \u00a0Of course the cow hasn&#8217;t been there in the end, but the process of using the cow frees up ideas.<\/li>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2863\" src=\"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Printable-Coloring-Pages-Batman-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Printable-Coloring-Pages-Batman\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Ask yourself: What would Batman do?<\/span><\/strong> It doesn&#8217;t have to be Batman, of course (But if it&#8217;s not, what&#8217;s wrong with you? \u00a0Batman is the answer to almost any question!) The point is to pick someone who you know will have the right way of doing it &#8211; and be yourself, not them! \u00a0But be influenced by them.<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Change your environment<\/span><\/strong>. Yes, that old chestnut. It&#8217;s a cliche, but it&#8217;s a cliche for a reason &#8211; it works. \u00a0Play different working music; work in a different cafe; use different software&#8230; whatever.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>And one bonus thought ;)<\/p>\n<p>Inspiration is often assumed to just strike. It doesn&#8217;t. The research is very, very clear. Inspiration comes as a result of being completely on top of your topic, and letting things go from there. \u00a0You can&#8217;t use any of these tools to by-pass the hard work of knowing what you&#8217;re talking about. 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