Your Presentation Best

The first thing that people hear is your body language. What is yours telling them?

Jesus never used PowerPoint. Niether did Obama. Nor Gandhi. Nor M.L. King, Jr. Yet all were successful. What can we learn from them? Your Presentation Best will be on holiday til July 1.  See you then. Change the World. Cheers! Dan

In a perfect presentation world, the presenter has two PowerPoint slide packs:  The Long Pack and the Short Pack. The Long Pack is in working document mode.  This means it is self-contained:  all the explanatory texts, details, excel tables, etc.  (It could be PhD length, i.e lots of slides ) This pack is not for presentation.  it is for e-distribution before your presentation. The Short Pack is in presentation mode.  This means that the slides are cherry-picked, visual representations of your message for a particular audience.  They are designed to help you support the story you're telling. They are KISSS (see April 18 post) and in addition to relevant visuals, have perhaps headlines and key words. This is the pack you use for your presentation.

Try this:  show your 3 most important PowerPoint slides to someone not on your team and count to three. Three seconds per slide. Ask if he or she got the message from each slide. Ask him or her if they can remember any of the messages. If not, your slides are too complex. If so, keep rockin' and spread the Gospel of Clean Slides.