Persuasive Presentations ~ As an audience member often nothing can seem as Lethal as the PowerPoint presentation. ~ What starts out as an attempt to persuade or educate can often turn into blank stares and drooling. ~ Save yourself, your presentation, and your audience by flipping quickly through this brief.

1. PowerPoint
Presentations
Are they
always
lethal to
your
audience?

2. “PowerPoint
doesn’t kill meetings.
People kill meetings.
Peter Norvig, Google Director of Research

3. But
using PowerPoint is
like having
a loaded AK-47
on the table:
Peter Norvig, Google Director of Research

4. You can
do very bad things
with it.”
Peter Norvig, Google Director of Research

5. When given a choice –
your audience would
rather:

6. Remember
YOU
Are giving the
Presentation

7. Not
JUST
Reading
Slides

8. PowerPoint
is best used as
a backdrop.
backdrop [ˈbækˌdrɒp]
n1. (origin: Performing Arts / Theatre)
another name for backcloth
2. the background to any scene or
situation

9. PowerPoint
is best used as
the Exclamation to your
Point.

10. Use PowerPoint
as
background music.
background [ˈbækˌgraund myo zik]
Music intended as an unobtrusive
accompaniment to go along with or
add to the story or to provide
atmosphere

11. Pre-PowerPoint
you had to say –
“Picture this –”

12. Today with PowerPoint
we can illuminate our
words…

13. With PowerPoint
used gently.
Humanely.

14. We can all walk away from
the conference table
smiling.

16. Madeline Gutierrez