How to have successful Powerpoints

1. Death by PowerPoint
(and how to fight it)
Death by PowerPoint
(and how to fight it)
By: Zeinab Nasrollahy

2. There are 300 million
PowerPoint users
in the world.

3. They do 30 million
presentations
each day

4. About a million
presentations are
going on right now

5. 50% of
them are
unbearable

6. LOTS of people
are killing each other
with bad presentations.
NOW.

7. They are all DEAD!
Well, almost.

8. Bad
presentations
Bad
communication
Bad
relations
Less
sales
Less
money
Less
training
A vicious circle

9. Let’s
make
the
world
a
better
place.

10. Why are they doing it?!

11. Bullets don’t kill people
People kill people
Unintentionally
Yet regularly
Research shows:
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12. Why do you present?
.To “pass the information”?
.Your boss told you to?
maybe as a class project? (like me)
. Or to make meaning?

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

15. Can’t find
the meaning?
Don’t present.

16. Give 3-4 reasons
supporting your
point.

17. Memorable opening
1 argument
2 argument
3 argument
Memorable closing
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45
Minutes

18. You can tell this in...
5 minutes
15 minutes
45 minutes
It is scalable

19. Everything should be made as
simple as possible but not simpler.

20. Fundamental
problem?

21. Visualize ideas
Create key points
Impress
PowerPoint helps to:

22. How much is an extra slide?
$0.00. Zero Dollars.
Break it in several. It’s free.

23. Stupid “rules”
Do you 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!

24. Simple design rules
One point per slide
Few matching colors
Very few fonts
Photos, not clipart
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25. No audience? Present to the
furniture. But aloud. Try it.

26. Check the room
and equipment.

27. All this leads to...

28. Wow

29. An Adaptation
of
Alexei Kapterev
(pdf file)