April 17, 2007
Presentation Delivery: Dealing With Someone Else's Terrible Slides - TJ Walker Video
Sometimes you have no choice. For all of your impeccable taste and flair in the world of visual communication, you find yourself landed with someone else's terrible slides. Maybe a colleague thinks they're doing you a real favour and saving you some time. This is the kind of gift that nobody wants to receive.
Photo credit: scubabarte
And then you look at the slides, and they are filled with hundreds of bullet points, details and everything that makes for a boring, uninspiring presentation.
What are you going to do?
In today's video tutorial speaking expert TJ Walker gives you a couple of really useful solutions.
Video credit: SpeakingChannel.TV
So, you have this visually bland, bullet-point stuffed presentation, and your colleague asks you 'what did you think?' Nobody wants to totally deflate someone, especially when they have just tried to help. TJ Walker suggests the following solution:
''Here's what you do - look at all twenty slides, and then say 'Hey Smithers, thanks a lot. I'm using all twenty of your slides in my handout, to everyone that's coming to my presentations. And two of them were so good, I'm actually going to use them in the PowerPoint presentation itself''
This is an excellent get-out, as what makes for a bad presentation - too many bullet points, too much text - makes for a great handout. And the best thing of all is that everyone gets to save face.
Of course, if every single slide totally sucks, then you need to change tack. Obviously you still don't want to tell your colleague that their presentation isn't fit to go out into the world. Instead,try something like this:
''Hey, thanks so much for all your thought, a lot of good ideas there, and many of your ideas are going to be incorporated into my presentation''
Again, your colleague feels that they've made a real contribution, even though the minute they step through the door you're going to be dumping that file into the recycle bin. Everyone's happy.
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posted by
Michael Pick
on Tuesday, April 17 2007
Friday, December 4 2009
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