Death by PowerPoint (and how to fight it)

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Death by PowerPoint
(and how to fight it)
Alexei Kapterev

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There are 300 million
PowerPoint users
in the world*
* estimate

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They do 30 million
presentations
each day*
* estimate

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About a million
presentations are
going on right now*
* estimate

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50% of them are
unbearable*
* conservative estimate

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LOTS of people
are killing each other
with bad presentations.
NOW.

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They are all DEAD! Well, almost.

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

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Let’s make the world
a better place.

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Why are they doing it?!

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Research shows:
Bullets don’t kill people
People kill people
Unintentionally
Yet regularly

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Mainly due to lack of...
Significance
Structure
Simplicity
Rehearsal

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Significance

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

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What’s the subject and
why it matters to you?

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How presentations work
Significance creates passion
Passion attracts attention
Attention leads to action

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Are you passionate?
Check yourself.

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This is passion.

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This is passion.

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This is passion.

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This is not.

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

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Structure

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

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Q: What structure to use?
A: Any – as long as it is:
Convincing
Memorable
Scalable

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Structure choices
Problem – Pathway – Solution
Problem – Solution – Reasoning
Fancy stuff (if it makes sense)

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

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

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

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Simplicity

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

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

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

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Notice cool background.

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Hey, we’ve got DATA!

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This one’s my favorite.

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Fundamental problem?

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PowerPoint helps to:
Visualize ideas
Create key points
Impress

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They use it as:
Prompter
Handouts
Data dumps

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

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How much is an extra slide?
$0.00. Zero Dollars.
Break it in several. It’s free.

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

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Well, some are
just hopeless.

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Ditch stupid “rules”
Do you remember the rule:
7 lines per slide or less
7 words per line or less?
Well, it is just plain stupid
If you follow this “rule”
You get a slide like this

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Ditch stupid “rules”
Do you remember the rule:
7 lines per slide or less
7 words per line or less?
Well, it is just plain stupid
If you follow this “rule”
You get a slide like this

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Simple design rules*
One point per slide
Few matching colours
Very few fonts
Photos, not clipart
* pun intended

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Less text.
More imagery.
Wild imagery.

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

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Write a document

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The Largest
Leasing Companies
•Hansa Leasing
•РГ Лизинг
•Авангард-Лизинг
•Raiffeisen Leasing
•ММБ-Лизинг
Make 2 sets of slides

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Print with notes

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Inform with little text*
* yes you can

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Rehearsal

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It will never work completely
for the first time. Trust me.

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YOU
PRESENTATION
RECIPIENT
Feedback. Go get some.

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

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Check the room
and equipment.

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Presentation checklist

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All this leads to...

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Wow*
* great presentations

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Alexei Kapterev
Offshore presentation
design & consulting
[email protected]
www.kapterev.com