Kill Your Presentation in 12 Steps

Slide 1: KILL your presentation - in 12 steps -

Slide 2: 1 – Completely ignore who is your audience.

Slide 3: •2 Do not use bullet points in any way and, instead, write long texts in very small • Use prints that someone will never, ever, be able to read until the end. The need to insert the biggest possible amount of the • bullet details reveals the lack of mastery of content by the speaker, who uses the slide as a crutch to support and as a source of consultation for not forget to • points say everything that needs to be said. Immense paragraphs with endless explanations that could be made orally • all or by the presenter are a great way to make your audience fall into sleep. Technical and detailed explanations • the accompanied by huge graphs and tables filled with tiny numbers, too, are a perfect recipe to horrible slides. The • way, alignment "justified" aid, even more, making the exercise to read that text a real torture. Well, if you managed to get • losing this far, you may be wondering what is the size of this font that is both • relevancy demanding such effort in reading, it is the Trebuchet MS 15.

Slide 4: 3 – Use lots of animation and sound effects!

Slide 5: 4 – Use backgrounds that make it difficult to read.

Slide 6: 5 – Create slides mixing

Slide 7: 6 - Use several different “cool” fonts. Use as many as Possible! Colorful is so b e a u t if u l!

Slide 8: 7 – Use Clip Art.

Slide 9: 8 – Commit errors in spelling, grammar, concepts or data! http://images.buycostumes.com/mgen/merchandiser/31321.jpg

Slide 10: 9 – Read the slides. http://swissmiss.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/11/06/yawn.jpg

Slide 11: 10 – Approach controversial issues! Politics Religion Sex

Slide 12: 11 – Be funny, whenever you want! https://fmx.cpa.state.tx.us/fm/tsabaa/sum2006/pics.php?start=16

Slide 13: 12 – Re-think the content, during the presentation.

Slide 14: Effective Presentations Questions? Get in touch. Pedro Mello +55-11-9942-6059 pedmello@uol.com.br apresentacoeseficazes.blogspot.com