Creating great PowerPoints and not Bad PowerPoints

Skill Creating a PowerPoint Presentation

95% of PowerPoint's are bad NOT BAD BAD

Really bad!

now that’s...

Bullet Points
Make
People
Want
To...

Bullets are for

NOT PowerPoint

Remember: bullets kill (presentations)

as does...

A lot of text on the screen that you basically read to the audience. Remember that they can read a lot faster that you speak (almost ten times faster), so the audience will have read your paragraph before you have finished your first sentence meaning that they are not concentrating on good old dynamic you as you deliver the presentation but on the content on the screen. This means that they are distracted and your message looses impact. It also means that the audience is also likely to become bored, very bored and very quickly. People can read for themselves and they didn’t come to a meeting and give up their precious free time in order for you to stand there and basically read a screen of text to them. School isn’t even that boring. If you are just going to read stuff to them, send it on email so that they can read it ahead of time and then do a live Q & A session with them. This will cut the meeting down in time dramatically, making it better for all as well as provide some stimulating conversation. But seriously, keep the text to a minimum, it really doesn’t work for people. Remember also that the more text on the screen, the smaller the text is – and this doesn’t help people that are over 22 years of age in the audience as the chances are they won’t be able to read it anyway.

how much text?

as little as possible

keep it simple

Other crazy ideas:

Clip Art (use stock images)

Bonkers backgrounds (plain or simple gradients)

Busy Slides (1 Point, many slides)

Imagine if...

...Obama used (bad) PowerPoint in his famous speech

By Barak Obama

Thank You
Time for Change
Change isn’t Easy
What we’re up against
What I see
We cannot lose hope
What I know
Yes we can

Thank you, South Carolina
Thank you to the rock of my life, Michelle Obama
Thank you, Malia and Sasha
Thank you, Pete Skidmore

I’m bored already (faster please)

Some doubted this country’s desire for change
We have the most delegated and diverse coalition of Americans
You can see it in their faces – young, old, rich, poor, black, white, latino, native american, democrat, republican, and others
We are ready to believe again

Fine candidates and competition is fierce
We’re looking to fundamentally change status quo in Washington
Status quo is fighting back with same tactics that divide and distract us

Fine candidates and competition is fierce
We’re looking to fundamentally change status quo in Washington
Status quo is fighting back with same tactics that divide and distract us
Lobbyist dominate government
Ability to lead does not come from longevity in Washington
Bitter partisanship where opponents demonise each other
Politics that uses religion as a wedge and patriotism as a bludgeon

I do not see a white or black South Carolina. I saw South Carolina
I saw crumbling schools
I saw shuttered mills
We struggle with Washington and with our self doubts, fears, and cynicism
Change we seek requires struggle and sacrifice

There are people counting on us and they have stories and voices
A mom who can’t get Medicaid to support her children
A teacher who works the night shift at Dunkin Donuts
A Maytag worker who competes with his teenager for a $7/hour job
Woman cannot breathe since nephew left for Iraq

past versus future

We can overcome big money and influence in Washington
Latinos and Blacks can work together
We can overcome racial divide

Finally...last slide...

We can heal this nation
We can seize our future
Yes We Can

Obama Opinion Poll (after this speech)

Remember why YOU present…

...to CONNECT Emotional Right Logical Left

Text: as little as possible

no
bullet
points

Inspiring Images

Thank you.

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