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Death By Power Point Attributed to Alexei Kapterev
500 Million Power Point Users!
50 million  presentations each day
1 million  presentations are going on right now!
90% are  bad!
That's 900,000   bad presentations!
lots of people are  killing  each other with Power Point!
* Estimate, 2008, Frederick Ryan Lots and lots of people!
There’s  hope !
A  cure  exists!
Research  shows
Most presentations  fail  due to…
   Meaning    Story    Simplicity    Practice LACK OF:
   Meaning
Download information? Your boss told you to? To make  meaning ? Why do you present?
Meaning  creates passion! Passion  attracts attention! Attention leads to  action ! Remember!
Can’t find the  meaning ?
Don’t Present!
   Story
A presentation should tell a  story!
Structure  helps build the  story!
Beginning Middle End Structure means?
Begin with  3  or  4  reasons supporting your main point!
They won’t remember more anyways!
Next
Tell your story
Create a  Flow Stay on  Point Build  suspense Use  transitions The Story
Finally
Tie up any loose ends, and…
End!
   Simplicity
Being  simple  isn’t  all that  simple… Remember!
Visualize key ideas! Emphasize  key  points! Impress! Power Point helps to:
However!
Tele-prompter. Handout pages. Data Dump. It’s often used as a…
4 Ways to simplify
First
Don’t load the slide with a lot of information
1-Slide = 1-Point
Lots of Points? Use lots of Slides!
After all, death and power point slides are free!
Second
Small Font is really  hard  to read
So,
make the font…
big
Third
Lots   of   colors   tend   to   distract
use  colors  sparingly to  emphasize  key points
Fourth
A  picture  is worth a thousand words!
To illustrate…
Lets say we had a cat for sale.
Cat For Sale!
Not very interesting!
Maybe we should add a Picture!
Cat For Sale!
Helpful if you didn’t know what a cat looked like…
but
still not very interesting!
Lets try a photo!
Cat For Sale!
Get the Point?
   Practice
Remember...
practice  makes perfect, so...
Give it a dry run…
and ask for  feedback .
oh ya…
Don’t forget…
always check…
The Equipment
and
The Room
before you present.
Finally
Relax!
Now, to…
Recap!
   Meaning    Story    Simplicity    Practice Good presentations have:
Thanks! Sorry!
Thanks! One more time!
Thanks! Okay, last Time!
Thanks!

Death by Power Point