Why Most PowerPoint Presentations Suck...and how you can make them better by Altman Rick

Author:Altman, Rick [Altman, Rick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: public speaking, PowerPoint, Presentations
Publisher: Rick Altman
Published: 2012-06-14T21:00:00+00:00

Although I didn’t have the heart, it was my obligation as his hired consultant to find a way to tell him that his audience will never be able to read all of it, and worse, they cannot give him the attention he deserves with a backdrop of all that drek. He listened, nodded, and then said, “Well, that’s my style and I’m not going to change it.”

It might as well have been crack cocaine we’re talking about here—he could not function without it. He was addicted. And I had no opportunity to conduct an intervention—he let me go a few weeks later.

Are you like my former client? Do we need to send you through detox? And what does detox look like with respect to text addiction? I actually have some experience in this matter...lucky me...

1. The first time you, the addict, try to deliver one of your standard presentations without your usual verbose slides, you feel awkward and lost. You don’t know what to look at, you have difficulty keeping your train of thought, and you get thrown off by the fact that your audience is (perhaps for the first time) looking at you.

2. The second time is a bit better, as you realize that you must compose your thoughts from what you know, not from what you can read on the screen. It is still scary for you but there are moments when you connect with audience members in a way that you never had before. You actually made eye contact! You want to feel that way again.

3. By your third attempt, you own it. You are more comfortable sharing ideas that come from your heart and your experience and you not only enjoy the better contact with the audience, you begin to crave it. It’s like a high.

You realize what I’m suggesting here—you have traded one addiction for another. The feeling of true audience engagement is so intoxicating, it is not long before you feel as if you cannot live without it. You’re still addicted, but to something healthier. This is a good trade.

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