PowerPoint Presentation Advice - Great Presentations Work Even In A Power Cut
How reliant are you on PowerPoint to make your presentation truly come to life? Speaking expert TJ Walker presents us with a perhaps frightening idea: great PowerPoint presentations work even in a power cut. That's right - as in, without a computer.
Imagine you have an important PowerPoint presentation to deliver and key members of your audience have flights to catch in an hour. Minutes before you are due to go on there's a power cut, or someone trips over a wire and splashes a jug of water over your laptop.
Certainly this isn't going to happen every day, but if it does, how prepared would you feel to get up there and give your presentation regardless?
In the following video TJ Walker reinforces one of his central points - PowerPoint should serve as the cherry on top of the cake of your presentation. If PowerPoint is the cake itself, you are in trouble.
If your presentation is locked into your PowerPoint slides, you are no longer in control of it, PowerPoint is. If you are reading from your slides, or presenting endless reams of statistics or graphs, chances are you're using PowerPoint badly and ensuring that your audience will be asleep within minutes.
As TJ Walker explains, there is something very liberating about being able to go into a presentation knowing that you are ready to get your message across whether PowerPoint is there or not. A well designed presentation will support your message, and add impact to your speaking, but next time you ask more of it, consider that you are maybe putting too much emphasis on your slides, and not enough on your message.
And if you do get unlucky, and find yourself confronted with a frozen laptop and a sea of faces waiting for you to enthrall and inspire them, you won't even break a sweat.
posted by
Michael Pick
on Tuesday, November 28 2006
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