I was at a seminar recently and obviously the presenter just loved creating PowerPoint slides… he had far too many to fit into the time allowed for his presentation so he sped up and raced to fit them all in… a race he lost. The audience didn’t get much from the presentation either coz of the speed at which his slides whizzed in and out whilst he tried to say a few hurried words about each of them.
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The lesson is that, if you’re the presenter, your slides are really a memory prompt for you; they should really be just a headline for what you are going to talk about so that a slide every minute to 90 seconds is ample. By the way, when the audience has had time to read the slide, hit the “blank screen” button so the audience returns its attention to you.
A couple of other annoying mistakes (amongst many) that the presenter made:
- His text was so small not even the audience member with the best eyesight could read it (and as for me with my ageing sight!!!).
- He read the slides to us word-by-flaming-word.
- He had copious sentences instead of summarising the info as a bullet point (or “headline” as I’ve suggested.
- Every time a new slide came up it was accompanied by annoying sound effects.
If you’re a nervous or infrequent speaker, PowerPoint can be a real advantage to you if you just observe a few simple rules like these.
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