Death by PowerPoint(and how to fight it)

Alexei Kapterev

There are 300 millionPowerPoint users

in the world*

* estimate

They do 30 million

•presentations

•each day*

* estimate

About a million presentations are

going on right now*

* estimate

90% of them are

unbearable*

LOTS of people

are killing each other

with bad presentations.

NOW.

They are all DEAD! Well, almost.

Badpresentations Bad

communication

Badrelations

Less sales

Less money

Less training

A vicious circle

Why are they doing it?!

This is passion.

This is passion.

This is passion.

This is not.

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Structure is how you place thebuilding blocks of your story.

A: Any – as long as it is:

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Q: What structure to use?

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3 argument

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Simplicity

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Everything should be made as“simple as possible but not simpler.”

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Fundamental problem?

PowerPoint helps to:

! Visualize ideas

" Create key points

# Impress

They use it as:

! P rompter

" H andouts

# D a t a dumps

People read faster than you speak.

This means you are useless.

How much is an extra slide?

$0.00. Zero Dollars.

Break it in several. It’s free.

What’s the point?

One simple point?

Remove everything else.

Well, some are

just hopeless.

•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”

•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”

Simple design rules*

! O ne point per slide

" Few matching colours

# Very few fonts

$ P h o tos, not clipart

* pun intended

Less text.

More imagery.

Wild imagery.

But what if I need tosend or print the slides?

Write a document

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Leasing Companies

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Make 2 sets of slides

Print with notes

Inform with little text*

* yes you can

Rehearsal

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

YOU PRESENTATION RECIPIENT

Feedback. Go get some.

No audience? Present to the furniture. But aloud. Try it.

Check the roomand equipment.

Presentation checklist

All this leads to...

Wow*

* great presentations

There’s also a book!But I’m not the Author

Edited by: Innocent Ekejiuba