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

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

10. Why are they doing it?!

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

12. Significance 

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

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

15. Are you passionate ? Check yourself.

16. This is passion.

17. This is not.

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

19. Structure 

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

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

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

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

24. } 45 minutes 1 argument 2 argument 3 argument Memorable opening Memorable closing 1 More details... 2 More details... 3 More details... 1 More details... 2 More details... 3 More details... 1 More details... 2 More details... 3 More details...

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

26. Simplicity 

27. Everything should be made as simple as possible but not simpler. “ ”

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

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

30. Notice cool background.

31. Hey, we’ve got DATA!

32. This one’s my favorite.

33. Fundamental problem?

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

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

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

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

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

39. Less text. More imagery. Wild imagery.

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

41. Write a document

42. Inform with little text* * yes you can

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

44. Check the room and equipment.

45. Presentation checklist

46. All this leads to...

47. Wow * * great presentations