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Death By Powerpoint
The document discusses common issues with PowerPoint presentations, highlighting that many are ineffective due to poor communication, lack of significance, structure, simplicity, and rehearsal. It emphasizes the importance of passion in presentations, a clear structure for storytelling, and keeping slides simple and focused. The document concludes by advocating for practice and preparation to deliver impactful presentations.
Death By Powerpoint
- 1. Death by PowerPoint (andhow 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 presentationsare going on right now* * estimate
- 5. 50% of themare unbearable* * conservative estimate
- 6. LOTS of people arekilling each other with bad presentations. NOW.
- 7. They are allDEAD! Well, almost.
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- 9. Let’s make theworld a better place.
- 10. Why are theydoing it?!
- 11. Bullets don’tkill people People kill people Unintentionally Yet regularly Research shows:
- 12. Mainly due tolack of... Significance Structure Simplicity Rehearsal
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- 14. l To “passthe information”? l Your boss told you to? l Or to make meaning? Why do you present?
- 15. What’s the subjectand why it matters to you?
- 16. Significance createspassion Passion attracts attention Attention leads to action How presentations work
- 17. Are you passionate? Checkyourself.
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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. 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 supportingyour point. They will not remember more anyway.
- 28. }45 minutes 1 argument 2 argument 3argument 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 tellthis in... l 5 minutes l 15 minutes l 45 minutes It is scalable.
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- 31. Everything should bemade as simple as possible but not simpler.
- 32. Apparently, being simple isnot 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. Visualize ideas Create key points Impress PowerPoint helps to:
- 39. Prompter Handouts Data dumps They use it as:
- 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? Onesimple point? Remove everything else.
- 43. Well, some are justhopeless.
- 44. l Do youremember 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 youremember 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. Wildimagery.
- 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 RECEPIENT 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...
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- 61. Alexei Kapterev Offshore presentation design& consulting ak@realtimestrategy.ru