Death By Powerpoint
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1) There are an estimated 300 million PowerPoint users worldwide who give 30 million presentations per day, with about half considered unbearable due to a lack of significance, structure, simplicity, and rehearsal. 2) Presentations should have significance by clearly explaining why the topic matters, have a clear structure like problem-solution, and use simple designs with minimal text and vivid imagery. 3) Rehearsal is critical to refine the presentation and get feedback so it does not just work the first time. Proper preparation leads to great presentations.
Death By Powerpoint
- 1. Death by PowerPoint (and how to fight it) Alexei Kapterev
- 2. There are 300 million PowerPoint users in the world* * estimate
- 3. They do 30 million presentations each day* * estimate
- 4. About a million presentations are going on right now* * estimate
- 5. 50% of them are unbearable* * conservative estimate
- 6. LOTS of people are killing each other with bad presentations. NOW.
- 7. They are all DEAD! Well, almost.
- 8. Bad presentations Bad communication Bad relations Less sales Less money Less training A vicious circle
- 9. Let’s make the world a better place.
- 10. Why are they doing it?!
- 11. Bullets don’t kill people People kill people Unintentionally Yet regularly Research shows:
- 12. Mainly due to lack of... Significance Structure Simplicity Rehearsal
- 13. Significance
- 14. l To “pass the information”? l Your boss told you to? l Or to make meaning? Why do you present?
- 15. What’s the subject and why it matters to you?
- 16. Significance creates passion Passion attracts attention Attention leads to action How presentations work
- 17. Are you passionate? Check yourself.
- 18. This is passion.
- 19. This is passion.
- 20. This is passion.
- 21. This is not.
- 22. Can’t find the meaning? Don’t present.
- 23. Structure
- 24. Structure is how you place the building blocks of your story.
- 25. Convincing Memorable Scalable Q: What structure to use? A: Any – as long as it is:
- 26. Problem – Pathway – Solution Problem – Solution – Reasoning Fancy stuff (if it makes sense) Structure choices
- 27. Give 3-4 reasons supporting your point. They will not remember more anyway.
- 28. }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...
- 29. You can tell this in... l 5 minutes l 15 minutes l 45 minutes It is scalable.
- 30. Simplicity
- 31. Everything should be made as simple as possible but not simpler.
- 32. Apparently, being simple is not that simple. Will give you some examples.
- 33. Don’t worry: knowing the language doesn’t really help.
- 35. Hey, we’ve got DATA!
- 36. This one’s my favorite.
- 38. Visualize ideas Create key points Impress PowerPoint helps to:
- 39. Prompter Handouts Data dumps They use it as:
- 40. People read faster than you speak. This means you are useless.
- 41. How much is an extra slide? $0.00. Zero Dollars. Break it in several. It’s free.
- 42. What’s the point? One simple point? Remove everything else.
- 43. Well, some are just hopeless.
- 44. l Do you remember the rule: l 7 lines per slide or less l 7 words per line or less? l Well, it is just plain stupid l If you follow this “rule” l You get a slide like this Ditch stupid “rules”
- 45. l Do you remember the rule: l 7 lines per slide or less l 7 words per line or less? l Well, it is just plain stupid l If you follow this “rule” l You get a slide like this Ditch stupid “rules” Cramped. Boring.
- 46. Simple design rules* One point per slide Few matching colours Very few fonts Photos, not clipart * pun intended
- 47. Less text. More imagery. Wild imagery.
- 48. But what if I need to send or print the slides?
- 50. The Largest Leasing Companies • Hansa Leasing • РГ Лизинг • Авангард-Лизинг • Raiffeisen Leasing • ММБ-Лизинг Make 2 sets of slides
- 52. Inform with little text* * yes you can
- 53. Rehearsal
- 54. It will never work completely for the first time. Trust me.
- 55. YOU PRESENTATION RECEPIENT Feedback. Go get some.
- 56. No audience? Present to the furniture. But aloud. Try it.
- 57. Check the room and equipment.
- 59. All this leads to...
- 61. Alexei Kapterev Offshore presentation design & consulting ak@realtimestrategy.ru