Time to Read – 3 Minutes
You have seen the impact of a full day’s PowerPoint. It’s called audience coma
My three biggest nightmares when I chair a conference…
1. Speaker has 30 minutes, and brings along 40 PowerPoint slides – and then proceeds to spend 10 minutes on the first slide – still, its gold-dust when I give them the five minute warning and they are only half way through…
2. People stand and say they “won’t read everything on the slide” and then do just that – as if to say to the audience “You are clearly not able to read…
3. Slides so full they are unreadable. Again, the presenter will often apologise for this with “I’m sorry this is a very full slide and you won’t be able to read it” Well, DON’T USE IT”…
I was reminded of these, and others, when a team I was working with in Poland recently asked me “the best way for us as a team to stop using power-point”
When I replied “Don’t use it” the next question was “What do you mean?”
For all you PowerPoint users out there, I can share with you how to use it to the best of its abilities: don’t! Throw it away and never use it again.
Unless of course the organisers insist on you using it – in which case, still don’t
Action – Ban PowerPoint in your organisation
With much love
David
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