Avoiding Common Mistakes With PowerPoint Kushner,M 報告人:林彥輝 授課教授:任威廉 老師

Outline Ferreting out mistakes while preparing your slide now Avoiding blunders while giving presentation Knowing whether PowerPoint is too overpowering

Recognizing Mistakes when prepare for presentation Creating the wrong message: be flexible to the different audience To executives: summary To engineers: technology details

Recognizing Mistakes when prepare for presentation Undermining your message: Be sure visuals support your message

Recognizing Mistakes when prepare for presentation Prettifying without purpose: think if it is necessary?: Too much colorful theme, too much fancy font. keep in mind that anything goes on the slide must enhance your message.

Recognizing Mistakes when prepare for presentation Passing poor design: Too much information Misspelled words Creepy colors Using too many special effects Too much animated transition distraction Creepy colors appropriate colors

Recognizing Mistakes when prepare for presentation Forgetting to practice Notice: Check videos and photos The order of slides The font LCD projector

Avoiding mistakes when presenting Ignoring your audience Connect with them Talk to audience not to talk to computers PowerPoint is never substitute for eye contact with audience Reading the slides Put a lot of words and just read the slides

Avoiding mistakes when presenting Not talking about what’s on the slide If need to go off on a tangent, blank the screen Having bad timing Automatic switch manual switch

Avoiding mistakes when presenting Using someone else’s slides A slide is missing or the slides are in a different order than you used to Make sure have time to get familiar with it.

Overpowering with PowerPoint: How much is Too much? In 1980s, PowerPoint has spread through the world See PowerPoint as a barrier between presenter and audience “Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.” PowerPoint can’t distinguish whether the message is important.

Overpowering with PowerPoint: How much is Too much? How to solve the problem? Prepare for PowerPoint, just as going to show it When the slides are too many Not to report, but printed to audience Figure out some slides to report and conversation.