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- 1. Death by PowerPoint (and how to fight it) Alexei Kapterev
- 2. There are 300million PowerPoint users in the world* * estimate
- 3. They do 30million presentations each day* * estimate
- 4. About a million presentations are going on right now* * estimate
- 5. 50% of themare unbearable* * conservative estimate
- 6. LOTS of people are killing each other with bad presentations. NOW.
- 7. They are allDEAD! Well, almost.
- 8. A vicious circle Bad presentations Bad communication Less training Bad relations Less money Less sales
- 9. Let’s make theworld a better place.
- 10. Why are theydoing it?!
- 11. Research shows: Bullets don’tkill people People kill people Unintentionally Yet regularly
- 12. Mainly due tolack of... Significance Structure Simplicity Rehearsal
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- 14. Why do youpresent? To “pass the information”? Your boss told you to? Or to make meaning?
- 15. What’s the subjectand why it matters to you?
- 16. How presentations work Significancecreates passion Passion attracts attention Attention leads to action
- 17. Are you passionate? Check yourself.
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- 22. Can’t find the meaning? Don’tpresent.
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- 24. Structure is howyou place the building blocks of your story.
- 25. Q: What structureto use? A: Any – as long as it is: Convincing Memorable Scalable
- 26. Structure choices Problem –Pathway – Solution Problem – Solution – Reasoning Fancy stuff (if it makes sense)
- 27. Give 3-4 reasons supporting your point. They will not remember more anyway.
- 28. } Memorable opening 1 More details... 1 argument 2 More details... 3 More details... 2 argument 1 More details... 2 More details... 45 3 More details... minutes 1 More details... 3 argument 2 More details... 3 More details... Memorable closing
- 29. You can tellthis in... 5 minutes 15 minutes 45 minutes It is scalable.
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- 31. Everything should bemade as simple as possible but not simpler.
- 32. Apparently, being simple is not that simple. Will give you some examples.
- 33. Don’t worry: knowingthe language doesn’t really help.
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- 35. Hey, we’ve gotDATA!
- 36. This one’s myfavorite.
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- 38. PowerPoint helps to: Visualizeideas Create key points Impress
- 39. They use itas: Prompter Handouts Data dumps
- 40. People read fasterthan you speak. This means you are useless.
- 41. How much isan 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 justhopeless.
- 44. Ditch stupid “rules” Doyou 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
- 45. d. Ditchstupid “rules” pe m g. Do you remember the rule: ra n 7 lines per slide or less C ori 7 words per line or less? Well, it is just plain stupid B If you follow this “rule” You get a slide like this
- 46. Simple design rules* Onepoint per slide Few matching colours Very few fonts Photos, not clipart * pun intended
- 47. Less text. Moreimagery. Wild imagery.
- 48. But what ifI need to send or print the slides?
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- 50. The Largest Leasing Companies •Hansa Leasing •РГ Лизинг •Авангард-Лизинг •Raiffeisen Leasing •ММБ-Лизинг Make 2 sets of slides
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- 52. Inform with littletext* * yes you can
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- 54. It will neverwork completely for the first time. Trust me.
- 55. YOU PRESENTATION RECIPIENT Feedback. Go get some.
- 56. No audience? Presentto the furniture. But aloud. Try it.
- 57. Check the room andequipment.
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- 59. All this leadsto...
- 60. Wow* * greatpresentations
- 61. Alexei Kapterev Offshore presentation design & consulting kapterev@gmail.com www.kapterev.com