Avoiding Death by PowerPoint

How Avoid Death by PowerPoint©
Creating Powerful Presentations
By Karl M. Kapp
Professor
Bloomsburg University
kkapp@bloomu.edu

And on slide 67… I know you can’t read
this so…let me read it to you. Bullet point
one: Carefully investigate the vendor to
ensure they are credit worthy. Bullet
point two:……

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Purchasing Department
Improvements
• DecreaseTime from Requisition to PO-This
means we must reduce the time from when
someone enters a requisition until we are able to
fill the requisition.
• Decrease Overall Costs-The costs to the
organization are too high so we want to reduce
by aggregating organizational demand.
• Foster Partnerships with Lines of Business-
The better we work with the lines of business,
the better we can meet their needs.

Improvements
• Increase Time from Requisition to PO-This
means we must reduce the time from when
someone enters a requisition until we are able to
fill the requisition.
• Decrease Overall Costs-The costs to the
organization are too high so we want to reduce
by aggregating organizational demand.
• Foster Partnerships with Lines of Business-
The better we work with the lines of business,
the better we can meet their needs.
Don’t want
to forget…
Want to have a
document so our
audience can follow
along.
We “copy and paste”
from another document.
We want the focus
on the words and
not what we are
saying.

Improvements
• Decrease Time from Requisition to PO
• Decrease Overall Costs
• Foster Partnerships with Lines of Business

Improvements
• Decrease Time from Requisition to PO
• Decrease Overall Costs
• Foster Partnerships with Lines of Business
6 x 6 Rule

Decrease Time
Decrease Overall Costs
Foster Partnerships
Improvements

Gamer Generation
• Problem Solvers
• Confident
• Resilient
• Social
• Multi-Tasking
• Informal Learners

Got Game:
John Beck and
Mitchell Wade (2004)
Problem
Solvers Confident
Resilient
Multi-
tasking
Informal
Learners
Social

Clarification of
Terms
Tips and
Techniques
Advice from
Veteran
Employees
Competitive
Intelligence
Posting/Collection of
of Valuable
Resources
Listing of
Internal
Experts

Females play 5 hours a week of
console games. They make up the
majority of PC gamers at 63%.
Almost 43% of the
gamers are female
and 26% of those
females are over
18.

Great Change in Last 20 Years
• Nuclear Age
• Jet Age
• Computer Age
• Automated Manufacturing
• Space Age/Put a Man on the Moon
• Mass Media

Stop reading slides
Boring
We Can Read!
Doesn’t Add Anything

Product by Region
0
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
3
3.5
4
4.5
5
Product A Product B Product C Product D
Northeast
Southeast
Northwest

Sales by Quarter
Sales
1st Qtr
2nd Qtr
3rd Qtr
4th Qtr

When you must present a
paragraph of text. The best way
to do it is to highlight key words
and then speak to those key
words, the audience members
will be reading the entire
paragraph while you speak so
just focus on the important
words.

The mission of our company is to
provide high quality products that
satisfy customer demand while
maintaining a safe and profitable
work environment.

High Quality
Products
I’m satisfied
with the
company
It’s a safe
company
It is a
profitable
company.
Our Mission

Why is our
inventory forecast
so wrong?

Because your team
misjudged the level of
scrap.

And Sales over
estimated demand!

Researchers have found that the
human brain has a natural affinity
for narrative construction.
Yep, People tend to remember facts
more accurately if they encounter
them in a story rather than in a list.
And they rate legal arguments as
more convincing when built into
narrative tales rather than on legal
precedent.

meet Mary O’ Winn…
(She is the Heroine)

an accomplished
Professional
Team Player
Member of the Organization
Member of the Operation’s Team
Slated for Promotion

Only needs to learn One Thing…

an accomplished
Professional
Team Player
Member of the Organization
Member of Learning and Development Organization
Won Training AWARDS
Numerous

They both work for…
Big Corp

Ann’s Job is to create training
E-learning
Training Manuals
Classroom
instruction

Ann created a great library of
courses …

Mary O’ Winn… won’t
take any classes Ann
Develops

Mary Learns When and how
she wants and gets
Promoted…

1.Characters
Stories Need
5. Conclusion
2. Plot (something has to happen).
3. Tension
4. Resolution

Solution #3:
Step Three: Lower Machine

Capability Block II Apollo Guidance
Computer
AGC
PlayStation
Portable
PSP
Memory 36,864 words of ROM
Storage 2,048 words of RAM
Clock Speed 2.048 MHz
32 MB
4 MB DRAM
Increasing Power of Gadgets

Sequencing
Type of
Information
to be learned
Analysis
Identification of
Learning Goals
Bills of
Learning
Employee
Learning Styles
Gross-to-net
logic
Diagnosis
Implementation
Master
Learning
Schedule
Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4
Evaluation
Training
Delivery
Continuation
Updates and
Maintenance
Design
Sequencing
Type of
Information
to be learned
Employee
Learning
Styles
Gross-to-net
logic
Diagnosis
Design
Analysis
Identification of
Learning Goals
Bills of
Learning

Sequencing
Type of
Information
to be learned
Analysis
Identification of
Learning Goals
Bills of
Learning
Employee
Learning Styles
Gross-to-net
logic
Diagnosis
Implementation
Master
Learning
Schedule
Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4
Evaluation
Training
Delivery
Continuation
Updates and
Maintenance
Design
Sequencing
Type of
Information
to be learned
Employee
Learning
Styles
Gross-to-net
logic
Diagnosis
Design
Diagnosis
Employee
Learning
Styles
Gross-to-net
logic

Employees will demonstrate their knowledge of the integration of an ERP system
throughout the company’s business processes by describing the sequence of
events that occur when completing a customer order with 100% accuracy
Employees will select the advantages for
using an ERP system by a
company from a list of both advantages
and disadvantages within five minutes.
Employees will be able to match
the departments with their
responsibility in processing a
Request for Quotation from the
customer with no mistakes
Employees will identify one reason for using
an ERP system by a company as helping to
maintain a high standard of quality in production
within two minutes.
provide service as demanded by customer
within two minutes.
Top Learning
Objective
Enabling
Objectives
Enabling
Objectives
Bill of Learning

Employees will demonstrate their knowledge of the integration of an ERP system
throughout the company’s business processes by describing the sequence of
events that occur when completing a customer order with 100% accuracy
Employees will select the advantages for
using an ERP system by a
company from a list of both advantages
and disadvantages within five minutes.
Employees will be able to match
the departments with their
responsibility in processing a
Request for Quotation from the
customer with no mistakes
maintain a high standard of quality in production
within two minutes.
provide service as demanded by customer
within two minutes.
Top Learning
Objective
Enabling
Objectives
Enabling
Objectives
Bill of Learning
Employees will demonstrate
their knowledge of the integration
of an ERP system throughout the
company’s business processes
by describing the sequence of
events that occur when completing a
customer order with 100% accuracy

Resources…
Where did you get that
Artwork?
http://www.istockphoto.com
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/clipart/default.aspx

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