This presentation talks about 4 common bad habits of presenters that leads to death by PowerPoint. Addressing these bad habits will lead to better and more effective business presentations.

1. 4 common
bad habits of presenters
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2. What are these habits?
How do they matter?

3. The answer is buried
in the evolution of
presentations

4. Over time…
presentations have gone through 3 stages
Infancy
Adolescence
Maturity

5. In Infancy stage…

6. Presenters had limited tools to work with.
Photo slide projectors

7. Since photo
slides were
expensive to
make…

8. Presenters developed bad habit No. 1
‘Cluttering the slides’

9. The result was: Slides like this…

10. Our company’s glorious history
• Once upon a time when we started the company
– We went to the registrar office to purchase
• Rs.2/- revenue stamp
• We went by public transport
– because we had no company-owned vehicle
» It was too far to walk
» Distance> 5 furlongs.
» Cars for hire were expensive
» And we had no expense account
• I am telling you all this because
– I FEEL LIKE IT haha
• Anyway your next 2 hours are all mine
– Of course that does not comprise of question-answer time.
– I know you will be too engrossed to take a break
• My boss did this to me
– And I will do it to you
– For more information, please refer to the detailed training sessions on
our culture, ethos, values, mission, vision, principles, past
achievements, trophies won, background of the directors etc.
& Sons

11. The less expensive option – OHP
sheets were too difficult to read

12. So, presenters
developed
Bad Habit No.2
‘Reading the slides’

13. Result…
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14. Then came
Adolescence stage…

15. Presenters had the option
to play with pictures,
charts, graphs and
animations…

16. ..and they developed
Bad Habit No.3
‘Flaunting their expertise’

17. The result was: Slides like this...

18. I will use it because I have it
• Don’t you love this cool background?
• I just love clipart
–I use it whenever I see free space
•Animation with sound ROCKS

19. And graphs like this…

20. …which made the audience switch off

21. …and since presenters could also
‘Cut-Paste’ their way to a new presentation…
Ctrl+C Ctrl+V

22. They developed Bad Habit No.4
‘Avoiding hard work’

23. Result:
Weird hybrid presentations without a
unique identity

24. Enough!

25. …it is time to move to
the maturity stage
Now

26. It is time to break the
4 bad habits of
presentation…

27. …and replace them with
1 valuable habit of
Simplicity

28. For, simplicity makes your message fly

29. …and helps you reach
the last person in your audience.

30. How do I bring simplicity to my
presentations?

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