10 minute "Death by PowerPoint" Test
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This document provides tips to avoid "Death by PowerPoint" and improve presentation skills. It advises using one thought or main point per slide presented in 7 seconds or less. Slides should be simplified to include only essential visuals like graphics and narration, excluding background templates, logos, clip art, and excessive text. Formatting recommendations include a minimum 36 point font size and avoiding all capital letters. The tips encourage presenters to get feedback on selected issues and iteratively improve one slide at a time.
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10 minute "Death by PowerPoint" Test
- 1. 10 Minute Death by PowerPoint Test
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- 3. Open up one of your presentation decks and ask the following questions:
- 4. Internet Users and News 46% go to a national TV news website 39% go to web portals like Yahoo or Google 32% go to local daily newspaper web sites 4% frequently use blogs as aof your sfor Do any source lides news have mul2ple bullet points like this 7% use cell phone as a source for news example?
- 5. 2009 Do use bar charts ? 2008 2007 Product 3 Product 2 2006 Product 1 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70
- 6. Or graphs like this? We are Growing Dec ’09: 10.3 million Jan ’09: 8.3 million +63% +32% Jan ‘08: 6.3 million 6
- 7. Do you use Pie-‐charts? Do your charts look like this?
- 8. Is your type size less than 36 point?
- 9. Do use the same background template on every slide?
- 10. Do any place your logo or your name on every slide? Logo
- 11. Do use any type of clip art?
- 12. Do use ALL CAP’s in your body copy? WHY DO PEOPLE USE ALL CAPS IN THEIR PRESENTATIONS?
- 13. If you answered yes to any of those questions, your presentation could use some help.
- 14. If you answered yes to three or more questions, your audience may look like this.
- 15. Death by PowerPoint has a cure. Here are some tips
- 16. Does your audience care about every point in your slide.
- 22. Look at your slides and count to 7. If you can’t get your main point in that amount of time, you will loose your audience.
- 23. Treat your content li ke a billboard message. Make your point q uickly.
- 24. Ask yourself: Can a 10 year old understand my slides?
- 25. Try not to use less than 36 point type
- 27. Verbal Material People learn better when words are presented as narration rather than text.
- 28. Visual Material People learn better from narration & graphics rather than narration, graphics, & text.
- 29. People learn better when extraneous visual material is excluded. You don’t need your background, your logo and ugly clip art.
- 30. THE AVERAGE PERSON CAN READ upper and lower case type, FASTER THAN TYPE IN ALL UPPER CASE.
- 31. Can’t change everything at once? Pick two issues and make improvements on your next presentation.
- 32. Keep tweaking one slide at a time. Before you know it, you’ll have transformed your presentation into something useful, engaging and valuable to your audience.
- 33. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” - Steve Jobs
- 34. If you ever need help with your presentations, ping me – I’m happy to review what you’ve done and give you some suggestions. Oh, and of course if you like the tips you see here, you can always subscribe to my blog!.
- 35. Al Bonner 785-‐856-‐0421 Presenta2ontransforma2ons.com albonnerconsul2ng@gmail.com