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Slide death..!
The document provides tips on how to give effective presentations. It notes that there are millions of presentations given daily, many of which are unbearable due to a lack of significance, structure, simplicity, and rehearsal. It emphasizes that presentations need significance by conveying why the topic matters, they need structure through a clear framework like problem-solution, they need simplicity with minimal text and clear points, and they need rehearsal to refine the delivery. The document uses imagery and humor to convey its tips in an engaging manner.
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Slide death..!
- 1. Slide Death (and howto fight it) Aditya Raj Gontia
- 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. 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? 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. 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 supportingyour point. They will not remember more anyway.
- 28. Memorable opening 1 More details... 2 3 Moredetails... 2 argument 1 2 3 More details... 3 argument 1 2 3 More details... 1 argument More details... More details... More details... More details... More details... Memorable closing 45 minutes
- 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 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. 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? Onesimple 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
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- 46. Simple design rules* Onepoint 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 •HansaLeasing •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.
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- 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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