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- 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. A vicious circle Bad presentations Bad communication Less training Bad relations Less money Less sales
- 9. Let’s make the world a better place.
- 10. Why are they doing it?!
- 11. Research shows: Bullets don’t kill people People kill people Unintentionally Yet regularly
- 12. Mainly due to lack of... Significance Structure Simplicity Rehearsal
- 14. Why do you present? l To “pass the information”? l Your boss told you to? l Or to make meaning?
- 15. What’s the subject and why it matters to you?
- 16. How presentations work Significance creates passion Passion attracts attention Attention leads to action
- 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. Q: What structure to 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 2 More details... More details... 45 3 More details... minutes 1 More details... 3 argument 2 3 More details... More details... Memorable closing
- 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. PowerPoint helps to: Visualize ideas Create key points Impress
- 39. They use it as: Prompter Handouts Data dumps
- 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. Ditch stupid “rules” 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
- 45. d . Ditch stupid “rules” e p . l Do you remember the rule: m g a in l 7 lines per slide or less r r C o l 7 words per line or less? l Well, it is just plain stupid B l If you follow this “rule” l You get a slide like this
- 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...
- 60. Wow* * great presentations
- 61. Alexei Kapterev Offshore presentation design & consulting ak@realtimestrategy.ru