How to use PowerPoint without boring people
If you are in business, most of you probably put together “decks of slides”. Outside of business, many of us get called upon as leaders to orchestrate meetings. Even if you have a slick deck with cool graphics doesn’t mean you won’t bore your group. I often get asked how we put together decks that engage workshop attendees. I had an opportunity to provide our 7 tips in a recent guest blog for “SmartBlog on Leadership”.
How to be a more effective leader and presenter
If you follow this blog, you know that I travel extensively and lead a lot of IMS Retail University workshops. I can’t even begin to estimate the thousands of PowerPoint slides we’ve put together over the last decade. And, the new PowerPoint has countless options for color schemes, graphics, animations, videos, etc. The choices are endless, but too often the result can be … “Death by PowerPoint”.
We have posted previously on how to use PowerPoint more effectively as a leader and presenter. In a previous post “Life with PowerPoint”, we covered the danger of too many bullet points and information overload. In another post “Life before PowerPoint”, we examined how effective PowerPoint presentations incorporate the art of storytelling.
Recently, I had an opportunity to be a guest blogger for SmartBlog on Leadership. We invite you to click on the logo below to read more about 7 techniques we use to design presentations to be more engaging and less boring.
We would also like to hear from you … how do you design your decks to avoid “death by PowerPoint”?
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- Meeting Image: Ambro; Freedigitalphotos.net
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Posted by: | January 23, 2014 at 01:33 PM
Keep on writing, great job!
Posted by: | November 01, 2013 at 09:37 PM
This is some sort of stimulus wherein we make the uninspired, inspired or the non-productive to be productive. This will enhance overall productivity.
Posted by: Bea Tantoco | July 29, 2012 at 08:13 PM