Death by PowerPoint (and how to fight it): Death by PowerPoint (and how to fight it) Alexei Kapterev
PowerPoint Presentation: There are 300 million PowerPoint users in the world* * estimate
PowerPoint Presentation: They do 30 million presentations each day * * estimate
PowerPoint Presentation: About a million presentations are going on right now* * estimate
PowerPoint Presentation: 50% of them are unbearable * * conservative estimate
PowerPoint Presentation: LOTS of people are killing each other with bad presentations. NOW .
PowerPoint Presentation: They are all DEAD ! Well, almost.
PowerPoint Presentation: Bad presentations Bad communication Bad relations Less sales Less money Less training A vicious circle
PowerPoint Presentation: Let’s make the world a better place.
PowerPoint Presentation: Why are they doing it?!
PowerPoint Presentation: Bullets don’t kill people People kill people Unintentionally Yet regularly Research shows:
PowerPoint Presentation: Mainly due to lack of... Significance Structure Simplicity Rehearsal
PowerPoint Presentation: Significance
PowerPoint Presentation: To “pass the information”? Your boss told you to? Or to make meaning ? Why do you present?
PowerPoint Presentation: What’s the subject and why it matters to you?
PowerPoint Presentation: Significance creates passion Passion attracts attention Attention leads to action How presentations work
PowerPoint Presentation: Are you passionate ? Check yourself.
PowerPoint Presentation: This is passion.
PowerPoint Presentation: This is passion.
PowerPoint Presentation: This is passion.
PowerPoint Presentation: This is not .
PowerPoint Presentation: Can’t find the meaning? Don’t present.
PowerPoint Presentation: Structure
PowerPoint Presentation: Structure is how you place the building blocks of your story.
PowerPoint Presentation: Convincing Memorable Scalable Q: What structure to use? A: Any – as long as it is:
PowerPoint Presentation: Problem – Pathway – Solution Problem – Solution – Reasoning Fancy stuff (if it makes sense) Structure choices
PowerPoint Presentation: Give 3-4 reasons supporting your point. They will not remember more anyway.
PowerPoint Presentation: } 45 minutes 1 argument 2 argument 3 argument Memorable opening Memorable closing 1 More details... 2 More details... 3 More details... 1 More details... 2 More details... 3 More details... 1 More details... 2 More details... 3 More details...
PowerPoint Presentation: You can tell this in... 5 minutes 15 minutes 45 minutes It is scalable.
PowerPoint Presentation: Simplicity
PowerPoint Presentation: Everything should be made as simple as possible but not simpler. “ ”
PowerPoint Presentation: Apparently, being simple is not that simple. Will give you some examples.
PowerPoint Presentation: Don’t worry: knowing the language doesn’t really help.
PowerPoint Presentation: Notice cool background.
PowerPoint Presentation: Hey, we’ve got DATA!
PowerPoint Presentation: This one’s my favorite.
PowerPoint Presentation: Fundamental problem?
PowerPoint Presentation: Visualize ideas Create key points Impress PowerPoint helps to:
PowerPoint Presentation: Prompter Handouts Data dumps They use it as:
PowerPoint Presentation: People read faster than you speak. This means you are useless .
PowerPoint Presentation: How much is an extra slide? $0.00. Zero Dollars. Break it in several. It’s free.
PowerPoint Presentation: What’s the point? One simple point? Remove everything else.
PowerPoint Presentation: Well, some are just hopeless.
PowerPoint Presentation: Do you remember the rule: 7 lines per slide or less 7 words per line or less? Well, it is just plain stupid If you follow this “rule” You get a slide like this Ditch stupid “rules”
PowerPoint Presentation: Ditch stupid “rules” Do you remember the rule: 7 lines per slide or less 7 words per line or less? Well, it is just plain stupid If you follow this “rule” You get a slide like this Cramped. Boring.
PowerPoint Presentation: Simple design rules* One point per slide Few matching colours Very few fonts Photos , not clipart * pun intended
PowerPoint Presentation: Less text. More imagery. Wild imagery.
PowerPoint Presentation: But what if I need to send or print the slides?
PowerPoint Presentation: Write a document
PowerPoint Presentation: The Largest Leasing Companies Hansa Leasing РГ Лизинг Авангард-Лизинг Raiffeisen Leasing ММБ-Лизинг Make 2 sets of slides
PowerPoint Presentation: Print with notes
PowerPoint Presentation: Inform with little text* * yes you can
PowerPoint Presentation: Rehearsal
PowerPoint Presentation: It will never work completely for the first time. Trust me.
PowerPoint Presentation: YOU PRESENTATION RECIPIENT Feedback . Go get some.
PowerPoint Presentation: No audience? Present to the furniture. But aloud . Try it.
PowerPoint Presentation: Check the room and equipment.
PowerPoint Presentation: Presentation checklist
PowerPoint Presentation: All this leads to...
PowerPoint Presentation: Wow * * great presentations PowerPoint Presentation: Alexei Kapterev Offshore presentation design & consulting
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