The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Avoiding Death by PowerPoint
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This document provides tips for improving PowerPoint presentations. It begins by joking that presenters often feel like Steve Jobs in thinking they don't need PowerPoint. But then the presentation goes badly wrong. Rather than external factors, the real problem is that the presenter simply sucks at PowerPoint. The document then provides three tips: 1) Tell a story with a beginning, middle and end to engage the audience; 2) Avoid including too much information by keeping each slide to one main point; 3) Pay attention to design with proper spacing, alignment, color scheme and separating into sections to avoid "visual vomit." Following these tips can help presenters avoid "death by PowerPoint."
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Avoiding Death by PowerPoint
- 2. When preparing for your PowerPoint presentation to do you feel like Steve Jobs? “People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.” -Steve Jobs From Walter Isaacson’s book Steve Jobs
- 5. What happened to your inspiring presentation? Possible diagnosis… • Audience was tired • Audience was too immature to understand your awesomeness • Audience was simultaneously hypnotized • Audience drank the Kool-Aid… In reality… None of the above. You just really suck at PowerPoint!
- 6. This isn’t the end though…
- 7. You can still save your presentation with these three tips.
- 9. Nancy Duarte, a well known writer and presentation guru, found that “the most effective presenters use the same techniques as great story tellers.”
- 10. “By reminding people of the status quo and then revealing the path to a better way, they set up a conflict that needs to be resolved. That tension helps them persuade the audience to adopt a new mindset or behave differently — to move from what is to what could be. And by following Aristotle’s three-part story structure (beginning, middle, end), they create a message that’s easy to digest, remember, and retell.” –Nancy Duarte
- 11. Grab their attention by showing you know where they’re at in life, or the situation. Life as we know it What life could be Then knock them out of their complacency by introducing your vision or point of what could be
- 12. Now that you have their attention keep developing the contrast between what is and what could be. 2. Develop the Middle
- 16. YOU’RE NOT GIVING A DOCUMENT. YOU’RE GIVING A PRESENTATION If your audience is reading what you’re saying, then what’s the point of you being there?
- 17. A good trick is to keep it to one main point per slide.
- 21. Whitespace is a good thing
- 22. Pay ATTENTION to your spacing and alignment.
- 23. Always keep things neat and tidy.
- 24. Having a consistent use of color, images, and alignment gives a cohesive look to your presentation. It also helps to separate your presentation into recognizable sections.
- 25. One more thing Always stick to a color theme.
- 26. Now just to reiterate The Good: Tell a Story The Bad: Too Much Information The Ugly: Visual Vomit
- 27. Incorporate these tips and you avoid death by PowerPoint!
- 28. Now create a PowerPoint presentation that doesn’t suck. Go knock it outta the park!
- 29. Thanks for reading this presentation Website references: • Pictures from: • Creativecommons.com • Istockphotos.com • Flickr.com • Info from: • Nancy Duarte • “Structure your presentation like a story”, HBR blog, 2012 • Jesse Desjardins • “Steal this Presentation”, slideshare.net, 2010