Newsletter July 07

Let's give a presentation using PowerPoint

Do you get fed up of people listening with interest to your presentations? Want to make sure they are bored, uninterested and go away with little more knowledge or information than they came with?
It’s simple! All you have to do is make sure you adhere to the following guidelines:

Don’t bother spending any time planning or preparing your PowerPoint presentation. Instead open up PowerPoint and start typing the first thing that comes into your head

Make sure you have lots of slides that all look the same

Use lots and lots of bullet points

Cram in as many words as you can onto each slide

WRITE IN CAPITALS. PEOPLE LIKE TO FEEL THEY ARE BEING SHOUTED AT

Don’t include any visuals. People may find them interesting or easier to understand

Make the font size really small

Don’t bother being consistent. Use lots of different fonts. Sometimes use full stops at the end of phrases, and sometimes don’t. Sometimes use capitals at the start of phrases, and sometimes don’t. Change the font size regularly. Use lots of different animations so that words come in from a different direction each time

Use highly complex charts and diagrams

Don’t bohetr to use the spel cheker

Underline phrases so can you trick people into thinking it’s a hyperlink

Don’t waste time practising your presentation. It’s so much more fun when you don’t know which slide is coming up next

When you give your presentation, stand facing the white screen and read out every word

And read it out in a monotone voice

And remember to avoid having any eye contact with the audience

Make sure you don’t have a back up plan for using PowerPoint. Technology always works

There, that should do the trick.

Happy speaking!

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