The document provides tips and recommendations for creating effective PowerPoint presentations. It discusses how the majority of PowerPoint presentations are forgettable and offers suggestions such as limiting each slide to one main message or bullet points, using creative visuals like images and charts over heavy text, choosing font colors and backgrounds carefully for readability, and organizing content cohesively to keep the audience engaged. Presenters are advised to speak to the audience rather than reading slides verbatim and to limit presentations to 3 main messages delivered within 10 minutes using a conversational style.

1. Monologuing
Syndrome
Power point

2. influence people
and win their
How to

3. Out of 30+ Million
PowerPoint
presentations
made Worldwide
Every Day *
At least 95%
Estimate 2014
*
are FORGETTABLE

4. Out of 35+
Million
PowerPoint
presentations
made Worldwide
Every Day *
Estimate 2014
*
We spend approximately 15 million person hours per
day viewing Presentations
This equates to a staggering $252 million a day in
terms of productivity.

5. PRESENTATION
COMMENDMENTS

8. With different Variations
Gray on
White
background

9. Black is
awesome

10. Blue is elegant

11. ®
Always use Corporate templates if available

12. You can’t have
important points in
Simple logic
15 × 35 = 525
a single presentation

13. Bullets are useful in GUNS
Not in PRESENTATIONS

14. Too many bullet
points in the same slide
leads to loosing impact
use bullets judiciously…

15. The problem is, too much…
The problem is not with
the bullets in the slides
• text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text
• text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text
• text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text
• text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text

16. Restrict to summary
Or important pointers only

17. Use creative bullets if required
Use creative bullets if required
Use creative bullets if required
Use creative bullets if required
Use creative bullets if required
Use creative bullets ifrequired

18. Slide
without
bullets

19. • 1st Step in the journey towards scaling climbing Mount
Everest involved defining the As-Is Process for
Department/ Process within the Organization
• The As-Is documents involved capturing the
‒ The process overview
‒ Listing of Processes – step-wise/functionality wise
‒ Making Process Flow chart for each process showing key
interdependencies
‒ Description of each process in detail
‒ Capturing the Pain Points
‒ Capturing the key reports and layouts/outputs of the
process
As-Is Process Overview

20. 1st Step in the journey towards scaling climbing Mount Everest
involved defining the As-Is Process for Department/ Process within
the organization
The As-Is documents involved capturing of the following:
The process overview
Listing of Processes – step-wise/functionality wise
Making Process Flow chart for each process showing key
interdependencies
Description of each process in detail
Capturing the Pain Points
Capturing the key reports and layouts/outputs of the
process
As-Is Process Overview

21. 1st Step in the journey towards scaling climbing Mount Everest
involved defining the As-Is Process for Department/ Process
within the organization
The As-Is documents involved capturing of the following:
The process overview
Listing of Processes – step-wise/functionality wise
Making Process Flow chart for each process showing key
interdependencies
Description of each process in detail
Capturing the Pain Points
Capturing the key reports and layouts/outputs of the process
As-Is Process Overview

22. 1st Step in the journey towards scaling climbing Mount Everest
involved defining the As-Is Process for Department/ Process
within the organization
The As-Is documents involved capturing of the following:
The process overview
Listing of Processes – step-wise/functionality wise
Making Process Flow chart for each process showing key
interdependencies
Description of each process in detail
Capturing the Pain Points
Capturing the key reports and layouts/outputs of the process
As-Is Process Overview

23. Text can be awesome
Text can be awesome
Text can be awesome
Text can be awesome
Text can be awesome
Text can be awesome
Text can be awesome
Header

24. Text can be awesome
Text can be awesome
Text can be awesome
Text can be awesome
Text can be awesome
Text can be awesome
Text can be awesome
Text can be awesome
Text can be awesome
Text can be awesome
Try to restrict to
only 4 fonts in
a presentation
1 for Title
Others for
description and
quotes

25. If you are reading this
You’re not listening

26. Read
simultaneously
Your audience
can’t

27. Avoid reading the slides

28. And the movement you do
this, you will lose the ground

29. Keep it Smart

30. Only 6 to 7 lines / Slide

31. is worth 1,000 wordsa PICTURE is worth
1000 words

32. Image conveys
message in
seconds

33. and conveys message
60,000times faster

34. 1slide
1

35. Order
Pack
Ship Bill Customer
Order to cash cycle in

36. DELIVERY PGI
STOCK
REDUCED IN
SAP
PICKING BILLING
LR ENTRY
DESPATCH
ACCOUNT
POSTING
ORDER
ENTRY
Order to cash cycle in

37. Stock moment

38. Eliminate
Clutter

39. • The Mahabharata or Mahābhārata (Sanskrit: महाभारतम्, Mahābhāratam, pronounced
[məɦaːˈbʱaːrət̪əm]) is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, the other being
the Ramayana.[1]
• Besides its epic narrative of the Kurukshetra War and the fates of the Kaurava and the
Pandava princes, the Mahabharata contains much philosophical and devotional material,
such as a discussion of the four "goals of life" or purusharthas (12.161). Among the principal
works and stories that are a part of the Mahabharata are the Bhagavad Gita, the story of
Damayanti, an abbreviated version of the Ramayana, and the Rishyasringa, often considered
as works in their own right.
• Traditionally, the authorship of the Mahabharata is attributed to Vyasa. There have been
many attempts to unravel its historical growth and compositional layers. The oldest
preserved parts of the text are thought to be not much older than around 400 BCE, though
the origins of the epic probably fall between the 8th and 9th centuries BCE.[2] The text
probably reached its final form by the early Gupta period (c. 4th century).[3] The title may be
translated as "the great tale of the Bhārata dynasty". According to the Mahabharata itself,
the tale is extended from a shorter version of 24,000 verses called simply Bhārata.[4]
• The Mahabharata is the longest Sanskrit epic.[5] Its longest version consists of over 100,000
shloka or over 200,000 individual verse lines (each shloka is a couplet), and long prose
passages. About 1.8 million words in total, the Mahabharata is roughly ten times the length
of the Iliad and the Odyssey combined, or about four times the length of the Ramayana.[6][7]
W. J. Johnson has compared the importance of the Mahabharata to world civilization to that
of the Bible, the works of Shakespeare, the works of Homer, Greek drama, or the Qur'an.[8]
This will look better in a book…
not in a presentation

40. Create something like this

41. Create something like this

42. • In the Northeast, colder-than-normal temperatures are expected. Snowfall
for the entire region will depend on the fluctuations of the AO;
• The Mid-Atlantic states have about equal chances of above normal, normal,
or below-normal temperatures and precipitation. Storm tracks could bring
more precipitation than the winters of the late 1990s, but snow amounts will
largely depend on the AO;
• In the upper Midwest and Great Lakes, temperatures should be highly
variable, with a slight chance of averaging below normal over the Great
Lakes. Due to a better supply of Arctic air this year, there will probably be
more sub-zero days than the average of recent winters. There are equal
chances for above normal, normal or below normal precipitation for most of
the area.
• The northern Great Plains and Rockies will also see highly variable
temperatures with more sub-zero days than experienced on average during
the unusually mild winters of the late 1990s, while wet and mild weather is
more likely for the southern Plains. A small area centered over Nebraska and
South Dakota may end up slightly drier than normal. The northern Rockies
can expect equal chances of above normal, normal, or below-normal
precipitation and temperatures;
Instead of creating this….

43. Use something like this

44. Why to
use visuals

45. A curved line with every
point equal distance
from the center
Graphic Description
Textual Description

46. Global warming

47. There is
nothing
greater than a
mother’s
love

48. Cipla
FI
PP
CO
SD
QM MM
is an integrated software

49. 7
6
8
1
5
4
3
2
SAP

50. Time line
Core team training module wise
Project
Kickoff
realization
Milestones
1 3
Go live
Train the trainer
MAR A M J J A SEP O N D J M APR M JUNF
End user training
Training Schedule
2
Refresher training

51. PRESENTLike an ADD

59. Organize
Your content

60. messages in
minutes10
3

61. Powerful, Dangerous,
impulsive, Debt, Warning
Cool, Dependable,
Business, Peaceful
Nature, Healthy, Fertility, Life,
security, Good luck, Money
Royalty, Loyalty, Power,
Wealth, truth, Religion
Ambition, Richness,
Generosity
Playing with Colors
Happy, Enlighten , Action,
intelligence, youth

62. You can’t read
black fonts on blue
background

63. Never use
red fonts on any dark/radium
backgrounds

64. Technology

65. Hyper link
Conversion of
Back up of slides
wireless mouse

66. Be a yardstick of
quality. Some people
aren't used to an
environment where
excellence is
expected.
“

67. a PICTURE is worth 1000 words
Use Plain/Corporate templates and Avoid Default templates10
Use BULLETS JUDICIOUSLY
Less is More
2
3
4
9
8
7
1 slide 1 message6
TAKE HOME

68. Eliminate clutter5
Present like an ADD
3 messages in 10 minutes
Choose COLOURS wisely
2
3
4
4
3
2
Be techno smart1
TAKE HOME

69. hope you have learnt something
Photo credits
Free slides- slideshop.com
Unsplash.com
Google images

70. Put a
dent
in
the
ics varma
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Linkedin.com/in/varmaics
Slideshare.net/varmaics
Facebook.com/varmaics
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