The document provides 12 steps for an ineffective presentation, including ignoring the audience, using long unreadable text on slides, excessive bullet points without relevance, animations and sounds that distract from the content, backgrounds that make text hard to read, mixing fonts and clip art, errors in spelling and grammar, reading slides verbatim, approaching controversial topics, being funny without regard to the content, and changing the content during the presentation. The purpose is to outline poor presentation techniques to avoid.

1. your presentation - in 12 steps - KILL

2. 1 – Completely ignore who is your audience.

4. 3 – Use lots of animation and sound effects !

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

6. 5 – Create slides mixing

7. 6 - Use several different “cool” fonts . Use as many as P ossible ! Colorful is so beautiful !

8. 7 – Use Clip Art .

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

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

12. 11 – B e f unny , whenever you want! https://fmx.cpa.state.tx.us/fm/tsabaa/sum2006/pics.php?start=16

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

14. Effective Presentations Questions? Get in touch. Pedro Mello +55-11-9942-6059 [email_address] apresentacoeseficazes.blogspot.com