Too many of us, at too many events, are painfully required to sit through too many important presentations that are ruined by dreadful PowerPoint. If presenters choose to use this powerful tool, they can benefit themselves and their audiences by learning some basic strategies and guidelines. Death by PowerPoint Prevention provides some of these guides. The FREE accompanying learning guide is available at http://solutionsforresilience.com/articles. Note: When slide decks are posted on SldeShare and other online sites they need more text to make sense to the viewer. During speaking events the presenter delivers the full meal deal message. Patricia Morgan helps her audiences strengthen their everyday resilience at work and home. With a MA in Clinical Psychology, she presents to thousands of people each year aiming to lighten their load, brighten their outlook, and strengthen their hardiness. Audiences describe Patricia’s message as meaningfully fun, surprisingly insightful and delightfully uplifting. She has helped train speakers for United Way, served as an Impact Speaker, is a Past President of the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers (CAPS), Calgary, and the creator of the CAPS Fast Track program for emerging professional speakers. In those capacities she has helped others find their messages, craft their stories and deliver impactful presentations. Patricia is the recipient of the Spirit of CAPS for her contribution to the Canadian speaking profession.  To see Patricia playfully in action go to www.SolutionsForResilience.com If you are ready to improve your presentation crafting and/or delivery, please contact Patricia at 403-242-7796 or patricia@SolutionsForResilience.com.

2. We are
dying!!!

3. Death by PowerPoint Prevention
includes:
A. Do First Steps, First
B. 10 Super Slide Guides
AND
A FREE accompanying learning guide

4. PLEASE download
your FREE
and accompanying
learning guide.
Click the link below:

5. Decide on Your Delivery Essentials
Do First Steps,
First
A.

6. Step One: Name Your Aim
What’s in it for
us to listen?

11. purpose?
outcome?
problem?
solution?

12. Step Two: Collect
Compelling Content

13. a. facts, statistics & research

14. b. questions

15. c. definitions
Example:
A ‘presentation’ is a means
of communication which can
be adapted to various
speaking situations.

16. d. quotations
Example:
Bullets kill . . . good presentations.
Ellen Finkelstein

17. e. anecdotes
. . . short stories that support
your points
!

18. f. fables

19. g. stories
Malala Yousafzai

20. h. examples such as . . .

21. i. repetition & restatement
reinforce learning

22. j. activities or exercises

23. k. analogies
Example:
She is as
fickle as
a butterfly.

24. l. metaphors
Example:
She has
the heart
of a butterfly.

25. m. poems
Example:
How do I love thee?
Let me count the ways.
Elizabeth Barret Browning

26. n. rhymes
Example:
He died from reading PowerPoint,
That sent him to the heavenly joint.

27. o. music or song lyrics

28. p. comparisons & contrasts

29. q. humour

30. r. others: use your resources
& creativity

31. Step Three: Structure your Content

32. Open
Go
Body
Most
of your
content
Close
Close

33. Step Four: Practise Your Engaging Yack

34. Patricia Morgan

35. Step Five: Decide on Your
Delivery Support OPTIONS

36. 1. Audience Comforting Learning Guide
If you have not already
downloaded your FREE copy
of this program’s learning guide,
click on the link below.
Create an engaging handout with
space for participant notes.

37. Create a document,
not a slideument.
Slides are slides.
Documents are documents.
They are not the same thing.
Garr Reynolds

39. 2. Support Slides
or Keynote

40. Decide on Your Delivery
Essentials
10 Super Slide
Guides!
B.

42. Hard on the eyes!
1. Example to Avoid

43. REDO

44. Easier on the eyes!
Less light blasting at the audience!

45. Optimistic Perspective
Optimists tend to:
1. Be generally happier and healthier.
2. Take more risks. They believe they will
overcome their obstacles.
3. Be more successful because they take
those risks.
4. Attract more people to them.
5. Have more friends.
Note: You may be thinking: “Oh no! The
speaker is just reading these words. Why
didn’t she just email us this slide? I can read!”
2. Example to Avoid

46. REDO

47. OPPORTUNITYISNOWHERE

48. Feeling Awareness
1. Sad=amessage inyour body thatindicatesyoudo
nothavewhatyouwant.
2. Afraid=amessageinyour bodythatindicatesyouare
atriskoflosingwhatyouwant.
3. Happy =amessage inyourbody thatyouhavewhat
youwant.
3. Example to Avoid

49. REDO

50. Sad

51. Afraid

52. Happy

53. 4. Example to Avoid
Trade Cards

54. REDO

55. Trade Cue Cards . . . or not
1) If you want someone else’s card,
ask to trade
OR
2) If you want to keep your card tell
others why you want it.
3) Keep trading or declaring why
you are holding onto a card.

56. How do humans learn?
1. 10-25% auditory?
2. 25-30% auditory?
3. 75-90% visual?
4. 40-65% visual?
5. Example to Avoid

57. REDO

58. . . .how many visual learners?
25-
30%
35-
55%
40-
65%

59. . . .visual learners
25-
30%
40-
65%
auditory

60. Strengths
Patricia Morgan
Maximize personal
6. Example to Avoid

61. REDO

62. Strengths

63. 7. Example to Avoid
They clip
arted me!

64. REDO

65. I love a photo
of me!

66. 8. Example to Avoid

67. REDO

69. Find Peace
9. Example to avoid

70. REDO

71. Find Peace

72. The situation is filled with clouds
of doubt, worry and trouble.
Yet a glimmer of hope exists, like a
little lit candle on a stormy night.
10. Example to Avoid

73. REDO

75. Decide on Your Delivery
Essentials
Happy
slide creating!

76. Ask about my
Mentoring services
for
WOW Presentations
at 403-242-7769
Patricia
Morgan