Imagine, if you can bear to, a presenter who rapidly moves through heaps of extremely complicated statistical slides, rarely looking at the audience and often just talking to the slides.
Now link in to this presenter Hans Rosling and discover an absolutely gripping presentation. The presentation is called ‘Debunking World Myths’ and is on the wonderful TED presentation site
Rosling’s presentation talks about development in the Third World, over recent decades and how wrong our assumptions turn out to be when examined in the light of the data. Rosling is using statistics, talking about statistics, while being stimulating, funny, passionate and humble.
He has a few unique things going for him – his special statistical software called Gapminder, and the opportunity to spend hours and hours preparing this presentation. However, there is a lot that busy presenters of statistical data can learn from him and put to use in everyday presentations.
Watch the presentation this time and next post I will examine what he does that we could utilise, even if we don’t quite have his pluses.
I found the link to Rosling’s presentation in a very good public speaking blog called Six Minutes. This blog is specifically aimed at Toastmasters, but has a lot of very valuable content.