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Presentations offer an opportunity for us to educate or persuade an audience about a given subject. For many, it is the dreaded quarterly report. For others it is building a case for why our company (or client) should invest in a product, service or concept. Or, maybe the presentation takes the form of electrical safety training and education. Regardless the focus of the presentation, there are some best practices when creating presentations and the support materials that can make them more engaging, more memorable, more impactful.Following the author’s paper, Best Practices for Safety Labels & Signage [1], from the 2019 IEEE-IAS Electrical Safety Workshop, many of the audience questions and comments focused on how the sign and label best practices related to designing training slide decks and support materials. There are, indeed, many best practices that are common between the two mediums. However, in the author’s opinion, there are several critical practices that are unique to designing and delivering effective presentations and training.By comparing ANSI/ASSE Z490.1-2009 (Criteria for Accepted Practices in Safety, Health, and Environmental Training), to best practices from Dale Carnegie, and from Garr Reynolds’ Presentation Zen, this paper will seek to provide the reader with practical, actionable ways to create more impactful, memorable presentations, trainings and support materials.For purposes of this paper we will only concentrate on classroom slide-deck presentations. Note that for effective safety education, classroom instruction is but one aspect of training and should be used in concert with effective hands-on and on-the-job training. |
