a letter to presentation killers

content based on

Alexei Kapterev’sdeath by powerpoint

www.kapterev.com

There are 300 millionPowerPoint users in the world*

*estimate

They do presentations each day*

30 million

*estimate

About

presentations are going on right now*30 million

*estimate

50% of them are unbearable*

*conservative estimate

LOTS of peopleare killing each otherwithNOW...whew!

bad presentations.

They are all DEAD! Well, almost.

Let’s make the worlda better place.a better place.

Why are they doing this

?!

Research shows:

Research shows:Bullets don’t kill people

Research shows:People kill people

Research shows:Unintentionally

Yet

Research shows:regularly

Mainly due to lack of...

Significance Structure

Simplicity Rehearsal

Significance1

To “pass the information”?Your boss told you to?Or to make ?meaning

Why do you present?

&why it to you?mattersWhat’s the subject

significance passion

attentionaction

How presentations work

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..........

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creates

attr

acts

leads to

check yourselfAre you ?passionate

this is passion

this is passion

Can’t find the meaning?

Don’t present.

STRUCTURE

Structure is how you place the of your story.building blocks

Q: What structure to use?

a: Any – as long as it is:

Convincing Memorable

S c a l a b l e

Structure choices

Problem

PathwayPathway

Solution

Structure choices

Problem

solutionsolution

reasoning

Give supporting your point.

3-4 reasons

They will not rememberMORE ANYWAY.

SIMPLICITY3

Everything should be made but not simpler

assimple as possible“ “

EINSTEN

Apparently,

being simpleis not simple.that

LETS SEE SOME EXAMPLES

DON'T WORRY, TRYING TO READ WOULDN’T REALLY HELP

hey, we’ve got connection!

POWERPOINT HELPS TOPOWERPOINT HELPS TO

POWERPOINT HELPS TO:

Visualize ideas

Create key points

POWERPOINT HELPS TO:

impress

POWERPOINT HELPS TO:

PrompterHandoutsData dumps

they use it as:

People read faster than you speak.

This means you are useless

0.00 per Slide

Break it into several

It’s free

How much is an extra slide?

One simple point?

What’s the point?

Remove everything else.

Well, some arejust hopeless.

Do you remember the rule:7 lines per slide or less7 words per line or less?Well, it is just plain stupidIf you follow this “rule”You get a slide like this

Ditch stupid “rules”

Do you remember the rule:7 lines per slide or less7 words per line or less?Well, it is just plain stupidIf you follow this “rule”You get a slide like this

cramped.

boring

Ditch stupid “rules”

Photos, not clipart

Simple design rules*

One point per slide Few matching colours

Very fonts

1

few

less text

less text

MORE IMAGERY

less text

WILD IMAGERYMORE IMAGERY

But what if I need to

send or print the slides?

Write a document

the rule is simple !!!

Print with notes

Inform with little text*

p

* yes you can

Rehearsal

It will never work completely for the first time. Trust me!

you presentation receipient

feedback

Go get some

No audience? Present to thefurniture. But Try it.aloud.

Check the room and equipment.

All this leads to...

wow*great stuff!

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