Screencast: Storyboarding for More Effective Presentations

Published 30 July 8 11:30 AM | Aaron

In this screencast Kenneth Roberts shows you how to storyboard a presentation using flowcharts. If you'd like to read our accompanying PDF, "Working Smarter with Presentation Storyboards" then download it here.

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# Jean ClaudeF917 said on August 5, 2008 8:50 PM:

Hi Kenneth, excellent coaching. I am in a mind twisting situation of setting up a 10 day training course on Project Management. Any tips?

Thanks for any help on this.

Jean Claude

# kmr214 said on August 11, 2008 10:00 AM:

Jean Claude,

Our recent posts and screen casts have given a lot of tips on planning, creating and delivering effective presentations.  It sounds like your project is much broader than that!  (Luckily, we've created Working Smarter series on organizing your work too.)

One additional tip is to keep the communications wide-open.  If you're covering a lot of ground--from securing facilities and equipment to making sure instructors have all they need, planning the meals, designing courses, and so on--you need to know of any snags in the schedule as soon as possible.

If you can, take a "Core Team" approach.  Assign appropriate people to take ownership of different facets of the training.  Each team member comes up with a plan for their part of the planning.  The team meets in order to collectively to review the plans, iron out any modifications and then commit to success.  The team then meets once a week--or once a day if you are on a tight deadline--to check every task on the schedule, identify any problems, brainstorm and decide on solutions and keep the tasks moving forward.  Getting team buy-in, agreeing on a clear definition of success and a having process of mutual accountability leads to a successful project.

If you don't have the luxury of a team, you'll have to essentially play all the roles yourself!  The idea is the same though, keep up the visibility and communications to make sure problems get identified and resolved quickly.  Check your task lists frequently.  

Of course, it helps to use business graphics like Gantt charts, mind maps, team charts and flow charts.  Go ahead and plaster the walls of your “control room” with your charts.   Check items off as they get completed.  

Being able to see everything not only keeps items from falling through the cracks, but also allows you to see your progress.  And that should help you keep that "mind twisting" under control ;-)

Ken

# Working Smarter said on October 14, 2008 10:05 AM:

Last week (July 23rd) I had the opportunity to guest blog on Dumb Little Man , a terrific personal productivity

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