Friday, May 22, 2015

Every Speaker Should Read This



Nicholas Bate nails the fundamental problems with PowerPoint.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

But business culture demands it. If you can speak to a subject without powerpoint, you mustn't. You'll appear unprepared.If you use your slides as supplement to a presentation then you violate the rule that the slides should stand on their own merit and explain the subject even if you're not there, for the sake of people who aren't there (or aren't all there) and will use them to catch up later. Everyone I know would agree with Nicholas Bate and yet still I'm chided if I show up without a slide set that I must speak through like a hand puppet. You're damned if you do, but damned if you don't too.

Michael Wade said...

I have been thanked by people for not using PowerPoint.

It depends upon the nature of the presentation and the size of the audience.

Sometimes I use PowerPoint but I keep the slides basic and few and never use it as a crutch.

Michael