PowerPoint Sins

PowerPoint is a trademark of Microsoft. It is like a drug.

It is software that seduces poor presenters into presenting painful presentations.

Maybe you have suffered through some painful PowerPoint Presentations. Maybe you presented some.

Let’s stop the pain. What can you do to help? You can reject PowerPoint outright – or you can learn to avoid these PowerPoint Sins.

Whatever you do – don’t blame PowerPoint. Don’t blame Bill Gates. Just become a better presenter.

Power Does not come from PowerPoint Presentation Success

When you commit the following PowerPoint Sins you inflict one or more of these three pains upon your audience:

·Boring

·Annoying

·Confusing

These in turn lead to the following pains for you:

·Embarrassment

·Misunderstanding

·Failure

How painful is your PowerPoint Presentation? And how can you stop the pain?

The 13 PowerPoint Sins you must avoid

· Speaker reading what is on the screen word by word

· Hoping for the PowerPoint slide show to cover your lack of preparation

· Too much on the slide

· We cannot read your slide

· Too many colors and graphics

· Too much motion on the screen

· No apparent reason for using the PowerPoint slides

· Items displayed on slide with no clear relationship to each other

· Using the standard clipart that everyone uses

· Printing in all caps or other hard to read fonts

· Printing the standard slides on the PowerPoint handouts

· Displaying lots of numbers

· Displaying too much detail

You can avoid the pain of PowerPoint sins by working with, George Torok, the Speech Coach for Executives.

He can help you become a powerful presenter… if you are willing to stop the pain.

Visit wwwSpeechCoachforExecutives.com

Call 905-335-1997

Presentation Skills Success Power Does not come from PowerPoint

© George Torok is the Speech Coach for Executives. He is a professional speaker, trainer and consultant. He is the creator and host of the weekly radio show, Business in Motion. He is the co-author of the national bestseller, Secrets of Power Marketing – the first guide to personal marketing for the non-marketer. He works with executives, business professionals and managers to help them present their messages with power and results. You can contact him to arrange an executive Speech Coaching session or Presentations Skills group-training program at 800-304-1861 For more information about how he can work with you and your organization visit http://www.speechcoachforexecutives.com/

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