Fire and emotion – emphatic presentations.

(Interactive talk at BDVT-workshop, Petersberger Trainertage on 23 April 2010)

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‘Empathy’ was one of the three topics at the workshop ‘People make markets – future qualifications’ at Petersberger Trainertage, and the empathy-part looked for answers to the questions: What significance has empathy as a future qualification for people acting on markets? And what exactly does empathy mean? The ‘people’ at the workshop on that day were training and business consultants and coaches, HR and marketing specialists. Being a presentation consultant my focus lay on empathy in presentations. Presentations – in my view – also comprising those short ‘pitches’ that we do when introducing ourselves to somebody else at a conference like Petersberger Trainertage, for example.

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The aesthetics of words

Garr has written a lot about presentation design and fonts in his wonderful blog and also recommended Robin Williams’ The Non-Designer’s Design Book from which you can learn a lot about design in general and, indirectly, about presentation design. Today I made a “wordle” of “Es spricht!”. Although randomly (?) designed by an algorithm the outcome is very beautiful – and a great mixture of languages.

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Here you can see that using one font in related colours can produce coherence and form inspite of being random.

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