Simple & solid methodology to stop annoying people with powerpoints

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

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

3. They do 30 million
presentations
each day*
* estimate

4. About a million
presentations are
going on right now*
* estimate

5. 50% of them are
unbearable*
* conservative estimate

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

7. They are all DEAD! Well, almost.

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

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

10. Why are they doing it?!

11. Research shows:
 Bullets don’t kill people
 People kill people
 Unintentionally
 Yet regularly

12. Mainly due to lack of...
 Significance
 Structure
 Simplicity
 Rehearsal

13. 
Significance

14. Why do you present?
l To “pass the information”?
l Your boss told you to?
l Or to make meaning?

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

16. How presentations work
 Significance creates passion
 Passion attracts attention
 Attention leads to action

17. Are you passionate?
Check yourself.

18. This is passion.

19. This is not.

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

21. 
Structure

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

23. Q: What structure to use?
A: Any – as long as it is:
 Convincing
 Memorable
 Scalable

24. Structure choices
 Problem – Pathway – Solution
 Problem – Solution – Reasoning
 Fancy stuff (if it makes sense)

25. Give 3-4 reasons
supporting your point.
They will not remember
more anyway.

26. }
Memorable opening
1 More details...
1 argument 2 More details...
3 More details...
2 argument
1
2
More details...
More details... 45
3 More details...
minutes
1 More details...
3 argument 2
3
More details...
More details...
Memorable closing

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

28. 
Simplicity

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

30. Apparently, being simple
is not that simple.
Will give you some examples.

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

32. Notice cool background.

33. Hey, we’ve got DATA!

34. This one’s my favorite.

35. Fundamental problem?

36. PowerPoint helps to:
 Visualize ideas
 Create key points
 Impress

37. They use it as:
 Prompter
 Handouts
 Data dumps

38. People read faster than you speak.
This means you are useless.

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

40. What’s the point?
One simple point?
Remove everything else.

41. Well, some are
just hopeless.

42. Ditch stupid “rules”
l Do you remember the rule:
l 7 lines per slide or less
l 7 words per line or less?
l Well, it is just plain stupid
l If you follow this “rule”
l You get a slide like this

43. d .
Ditch stupid “rules”
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l 7 lines per slide or less
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l 7 words per line or less?
l Well, it is just plain stupid
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l If you follow this “rule”
l You get a slide like this

44. Simple design rules*
 One point per slide
 Few matching colours
 Very few fonts
 Photos, not clipart
* pun intended

45. Less text.
More imagery.
Wild imagery.

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

47. Write a document.

48. The Largest
Leasing Companies
• Hansa Leasing
• РГ Лизинг
• Авангард-Лизинг
• Raiffeisen Leasing
• ММБ-Лизинг
Make 2 sets of slides

49. Print with notes.

50. Inform with little text*
* yes you can

51. 
Rehearsal

52. YOU PRESENTATION RECEPIENT
Feedback. Go get some.

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

54. Presentation checklist

55. All this leads to...

56. Wow*
* great presentations

57. Alexei Kapterev
Offshore presentation
design & consulting
ak@realtimestrategy.ru