A short slide deck on creating terrible Power Point presentations that will alienate your audience and maybe even make them angry.

1. TERRIBLE,
TERRIBLE
SLIDES

2. WHEN WE HAVE TOO
• Many animations
• It can be very distracting
• Kind of like having
• TOO MANY
typefaces

3. WHEN I SEE
This Much Data On A Slide
It Makes Me Want To Drill
A Hole In My Head In
Order To Let The Boredo
m
Out.
Be Nice To My Head. This
Kind Of Info Needs Someth
ing
Else

4. SOMETIMES IT GETS WORSE
• Start projects early. An early start means time to fix your errors.
• Work with friends. Your friends in iMedia can give you that critical outside eye on
your work.
• Save early and often. You will be sad if you lose your work due to a power failure.
• Is anyone still reading this. Probably they are not.
• If you show me a slide with the words “I realize you probably can’t see this” then you
have just insulted me and I hate you.
• Remember your audience. They came with so much hope, and you just disappointed
them.
• What does your audience want to get from the presentation? Give them that.
• And, hey, if you do this. Remember the important tip on the next slide.
• Guess what? If you just highlight important words here, it doesn’t help.
• Eat well and make sure you sleep. Sleeplessness is an iMedia joke, but you sick and
miserable = you not learning.

5. IN THE NAME OF ALL GOOD THINGS
• Don’t write your notes as slides and
then proceed to read them.
• Even worse, don’t read the slide
followed by a smug “ok?” after each
main point.
• This tells me you didn’t practice, and it
irritates me that you think I am worth
YOUR time, but I didn’t think YOU were
worth MINE.

6. FOR REALSIES
• Practice.
• Out loud.
• With your materials.
• Many times.
• I know you don’t think you need to.
• But you do.
• I do, too.