Want to give a great presentation? Use ugly sketches | Martin J. Eppler

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🗓️ 13 December 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Looking to level up your presentations? It might only take a poorly-drawn sketch, says professor Martin J. Eppler. He offers three tips to use visualizations at work, laying out how these simple tricks can boost creativity and communication, improve decision-making and lead to better collaboration among colleagues.

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1:02.6	I'm your host, Elise Hew. All right, I know this is a podcast and it has its format limitations,
1:08.0	but we are about to hear a talk about how to make stronger visual
1:12.2	presentations with tips and ideas that you don't have to see to understand. But if you do want to
1:18.2	see the examples, we encourage you to check out ted.com to watch this talk in full. For now,
1:24.3	enjoy listening to how improving our visual presentations can enhance creativity, collaboration, and communication from Professor of Communications, Martin J. Epler. It's coming up.
1:38.6	How can we use the power of pictures at work? How can you visualize what you think, what you know, and make
1:47.9	that accessible for others to improve collaboration? I have been obsessed with this question for 30 years,
1:55.2	in 20 books, in 200 articles, in more than dozens of experiments. And what I found are amazing benefits that happen when you draw, when you use visualization
2:06.6	software, when you sketch, when you doodle.
2:08.6	You boost your creativity, you improve collaboration and communication of better conflicts.
2:14.6	And you also improve your decision quality when you visualize the information that you
2:20.2	have. But what I also found was that many of us don't use the potential of visualization
2:26.6	at all. We stick to old ways of presenting, of discussing. Can I ask you this?
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