Page 0: Page 1: Death by PowerPoint (and how to fight it) Alexei Kapterev Page 2: There are 300 million PowerPoint users in the world* * estimate Page 3: They do 30 million presentations each day* * estimate Page 4: About a million presentations are going on right now* * estimate Page 5: 50% of them are unbearable* * conservative estimate Page 6: LOTS of people are killing each other with bad presentations. NOW. Page 7: They are all DEAD! Well, almost. Page 8: A vicious circle Bad presentations Less training Bad communication Bad relations Less sales Less money Page 9: Let’s make the world a better place. Page 10: Why are they doing it?! Page 11: Research shows:  Bullets don’t kill people  People kill people  Unintentionally  Yet regularly Page 12: Mainly due to lack of...  Significance  Structure  Simplicity  Rehearsal Page 13:  Significance Page 14: Why do you present? l l l To “pass the information”? Your boss told you to? Or to make meaning? Page 15: What’s the subject and why it matters to you? Page 16: How presentations work  Significance creates passion  Passion attracts attention  Attention leads to action Page 17: Are you passionate? Check yourself. Page 18: This is passion. Page 19: This is passion. Page 20: This is passion. Page 21: This is not. Page 22: Can’t find the meaning? Don’t present. Page 23:  Structure Page 24: Structure is how you place the building blocks of your story. Page 25: Q: What structure to use? A: Any – as long as it is:  Convincing  Memorable  Scalable Page 26: Structure choices  Problem – Pathway – Solution  Problem – Solution – Reasoning  Fancy stuff (if it makes sense) Page 27: Give 3-4 reasons supporting your point. They will not remember more anyway. Page 28: Memorable opening 1 argument 2 argument 3 argument 1 More details... 2 More details... 3 More details... 1 2 3 1 2 3 More details... More details... More details... More details... More details... More details... Memorable closing } minutes 45 Page 29: You can tell this in... l 5 minutes l 15 minutes l 45 minutes It is scalable. Page 30:  Simplicity Page 31: Everything should be made as simple as possible but not simpler. Page 32: Apparently, being simple is not that simple. Will give you some examples. Page 33: Don’t worry: knowing the language doesn’t really help. Page 34: Notice cool background. Page 35: Hey, we’ve got DATA! Page 36: This one’s my favorite. Page 37: Fundamental problem? Page 38: PowerPoint helps to:  Visualize ideas  Create key points  Impress Page 39: They use it as:  Prompter  Handouts  Data dumps Page 40: People read faster than you speak. This means you are useless. Page 41: How much is an extra slide? $0.00. Zero Dollars. Break it in several. It’s free. Page 42: What’s the point? One simple point? Remove everything else. Page 43: Well, some are just hopeless. Page 44: Ditch stupid “rules” l Do you remember the rule: l 7 lines per slide or less l 7 words per line or less? l Well, it is just plain stupid l If you follow this “rule” l You get a slide like this Page 45: l Do you remember the rule: l 7 lines per slide or less l 7 words per line or less? l Well, it is just plain stupid l If you follow this “rule” l You get a slide like this . d e p . m g a in r r C o B Ditch stupid “rules” Page 46: Simple design rules*  One point per slide  Few matching colours  Very few fonts  Photos, not clipart * pun intended Page 47: Less text. More imagery. Wild imagery. Page 48: But what if I need to send or print the slides? Page 49: Write a document. Page 50: The Largest Leasing Companies • Hansa Leasing • РГ Лизинг • Авангард-Лизинг • Raiffeisen Leasing • ММБ-Лизинг Make 2 sets of slides Page 51: Print with notes. Page 52: Inform with little text* * yes you can Page 53:  Rehearsal Page 54: It will never work completely for the first time. Trust me. Page 55: YOU PRESENTATION RECEPIENT Feedback. Go get some. Page 56: No audience? Present to the furniture. But aloud. Try it. Page 57: Check the room and equipment. Page 58: Presentation checklist Page 59: All this leads to... Page 60: Wow* * great presentations Page 61: Alexei Kapterev Offshore presentation design & consulting ak@realtimestrategy.ru Page 62: