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Death by PowerPoint (and how to fight it) Alexei Kapterev

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Page 1: Death by Powerpoint

Death by PowerPoint (and how to fight it)

Alexei Kapterev

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There are 300 million PowerPoint users

in the world*

* estimate

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They do 30 million presentations each day*

* estimate

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About a million presentations are

going on right now*

* estimate

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50% of them are unbearable*

* conservative estimate

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LOTS of people are killing each otherwith bad presentations.

NOW.

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They are all DEAD! Well, almost.

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Bad presentations Bad

communication

Bad relations

Less sales

Less money

Less training

A vicious circle

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Let’s make the world a better place.

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Why are they doing it?!

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Bullets don’t kill people

People kill people

Unintentionally

Yet regularly

Research shows:

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Mainly due to lack of...

Significance

Structure Simplicity

Rehearsal

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Significance

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l To “pass the information”?

l Your boss told you to?

l Or to make meaning?

Why do you present?

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What’s the subject and why it matters to you?

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Significance creates passion

Passion attracts attention

Attention leads to action

How presentations work

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Are you passionate?

Check yourself.

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This is passion.

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This is passion.

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This is passion.

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This is not.

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Can’t find the meaning?

Don’t present.

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Structure

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Structure is how you place the building blocks of your story.

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Convincing

Memorable

Scalable

Q: What structure to use?

A: Any – as long as it is:

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Problem – Pathway – Solution

Problem – Solution – Reasoning

Fancy stuff (if it makes sense)

Structure choices

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Give 3-4 reasons supporting your point.

They will not remember more anyway.

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Memorable opening

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You can tell this in...

l 5 minutesl 15 minutesl 45 minutes

It is scalable.

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Simplicity

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Everything should be made as simple as possible but not simpler.“ ”

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Apparently, being simple is not that simple.

Will give you some examples.

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Don’t worry: knowing the language doesn’t really help.

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Notice cool background.

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Hey, we’ve got DATA!

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This one’s my favorite.

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Fundamental problem?

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Visualize ideas

Create key points Impress

PowerPoint helps to:

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Prompter

Handouts Data dumps

They use it as:

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People read faster than you speak.

This means you are useless.

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How much is an extra slide?

$0.00. Zero Dollars.Break it in several. It’s free.

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What’s the point?

One simple point?Remove everything else.

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Well, some are

just hopeless.

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l Do you remember the rule:l 7 lines per slide or lessl 7 words per line or less?

l Well, it is just plain stupidl If you follow this “rule”l You get a slide like this

Ditch stupid “rules”

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l Do you remember the rule:l 7 lines per slide or lessl 7 words per line or less?

l Well, it is just plain stupidl If you follow this “rule”l You get a slide like this

Ditch stupid “rules”

Cramped.

Boring.

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Simple design rules*

One point per slide

Few matching colours

Very few fonts

Photos, not clipart

* pun intended

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Less text.

More imagery.

Wild imagery.

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But what if I need to send or print the slides?

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Write a document.

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Make 2 sets of slides

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Print with notes.

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Inform with little text*

* yes you can

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Rehearsal

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It will never work completely for the first time. Trust me.

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YOU PRESENTATION RECEPIENT

Feedback. Go get some.

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No audience? Present to the furniture. But aloud. Try it.

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Check the room and equipment.

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Presentation checklist

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All this leads to...

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Wow*

* great presentations

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Alexei Kapterev

Offshore presentation design & consulting

[email protected]