Almost identical! I approach the audience as if I'm explaining or telling a story to a friend. The exact words or sentences don't matter most of the time as long as you can get the point across. I also love to intertwine earlier discussions or news events in my story on-the-fly. Especially in a smaller group I've found that people listen better when my story is less isolated from the rest of the day. A while ago a professors of European Studies did an even better version of that technique: instead of bullets, his presentation slides were simply a bunch of seemingly unrelated photos. Each photo fit the story he wanted to tell or the concept he wanted to explain. It was impossible to study his lectures unless you were there and had notes on the stories. (That pissed off a lot of students.) When I have the chance, I now also use photos as slides, with my bullets as presenter's notes.Sounds similar to your process?
My friends developed a tool - HaikuDeck - that constrains you to making these kinds of slide decks. Great images. Simple text. It really is an elegant tool, and forcing yourself to use such a think can REALLY have a meaningful effect on your entire presentation. This is cool... glad to know we share such a similar methodology!
And how does that technique work for you? When I think about it, I can't recall the contents of a single slide I've ever seen.When I have the chance, I now also use photos as slides, with my bullets as presenter's notes.
Yeah, it's remarkable how unremarkable presentation slides have become. It works quite well but it doesn't fit all types of presentations. I gave a presentation to my department last week and a bunch of the slides still had bullet points on them. Formal situations don't lend themselves well to creative presentations.