I saw a frantic and desperate message on Facebook this weekend from a lovely lady who was preparing for a presentation she was giving on Sunday just gone. Oh ********k! I am so upset i could throw up! Normally wld transfer onto hard drive but saved presentation on laptop…which now refuses to start up Rescue […]
I have written before that the standard of business presentations is pretty poor. In fact the three characteristics of most business presentations are predictability, too much information and Death by PowerPoint. I wonder how much time is wasted in meetings and events listening (or even sleeping) to dull, irrelevant and mind-numbing presentations? By the way […]
It is the stuff of nightmares, isn’t it? You spend ages perfecting a PowerPoint presentation, you rehearse with said presentation, you check you have the wires for the all the equipment, pitch up at the venue and find out that the projector bulb is broken! Argh! Or is it? First of all let me say […]
Someone asked me today whether I could present on any topic given sufficient research. My immediate response was ‘maybe!’ But then I went and thought more carefully about my answer. In my coaching and training I often work with individuals with the structure and language of their presentations. And sometimes they will laugh and say […]
We have all been to presentations that have been so predictable and have followed so familiar a path that we could have written them ourselves. Yes, there is a conventional way of delivering business presentations that nearly every one follows but hardly anyone enjoys. On my course when I ask people what they hate about […]
Lots of people have been asking me recently about the use of PowerPoint in presentations. Contrary to popular opinion I do NOT think PowerPoint is the devil incarnate. I simply recognise that people misuse and abuse a tool which has the potential to add meaning, clarity and energy to your spoken word. People use PowerPoint […]
I was working with a group of engineers recently – intelligent, friendly and committed bunch and we got to talking about PowerPoint. In a short space of time and with much laughter and reference to people in the company, the group had quickly come up with a list of ‘hates’ about PowerPoint – list of […]
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Three reasons why PowerPoint stinks
Feedback is useless…
Could you present on anything?
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