Show, don’t tell using psychology to make better presentations
Why do you
present like this…
when you could
easily do this?
Most psychologists have little presentation training. Or so we think.
While not essential, you’ll
Inexperience, time pressure and anxiety lead us into bad habits: text-heavy slides, unreadable graphics, reading our slides aloud. These distract our audiences and impair their retention of the information we’re presenting.
your presentations on your
derive most benefit from this workshop if you bring one of laptop or tablet, in your usual presentation program.
Applying principles of perception, cognition and interaction
we learned as undergraduates can make our presentations more engaging and so more effective.
Dryden Badenoch
In this workshop, we’ll review and redesign, slide-by-slide,
an actual conference research presentation. We’ll observe the gains due to a psychological approach to presenting, while learning some useful frameworks and techniques.
of people reading their
It’s suitable for any psychologist: student, intern, researcher or clinician, however often you give presentations.
effective presentations.
I'm a Clinical Psychologist with 20 years’ experience… PowerPoint slides at me. Since 2009, I've been helping NZ professionals give more engaging, more relaxedpresentations.com
